The hallmark of Yoko Omori, associate artist at Oriente Occidente, is her ability to reinterpret the classical repertoire through contemporary movements and references to street dance. She returns to the Festival with a specially composed evening, featuring a new solo performance and her first group work for five performers, including herself.
Omori explores a complex emotional landscape, encompassing love and loneliness, joy and nostalgia, attachment and freedom, emptiness and fulfilment. This complexity, she suggests, is the only path to authentic beauty.
Yoko Omori critically remixes the vocabularies and histories of dance, asserting a clear individuality.
- Sae Okami, Dance Critic / Associate Professor, Kyoritsu Women’s University
