Shuntaro Yoshida
Shuntaro Yoshida
Credit: Shuntaro Yoshida
Shuntaro Yoshida (b. 1989, Miyagi, Japan) is a dancer, choreographer, and researcher of contemporary dance and performance. He is currently JSPS Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Faculty of Sport Sciences at Waseda University. He has a Philosophy-Ph.D. at Tokyo University of the Arts. Yoshida was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University from 2018 to 2019 and was the recipient of a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from 2017 to 2019. From 2013-2015, he earned a Master’s Degree in the Department of Dance at University Paris 8, Paris and attended French choreographer Jerome Bel’s research workshops in several cities across the world (Bruxelles, Munich, Paris, Seine-Saint Denis and Venice). His research examines the practices and theories of “post-choreography” as they relate to the notion of participation in the social context. Recently, he finished writing his dissertation “”Post-choreography as choreographic practice in contemporary dance: Clumsy-seeming movement and Jerome Bel’s choreography”“(2020).
Website: https://shuntaroyoshida14.wixsite.com/shun
Co-website: https://www.mappedtotheclosestaddress.com