COMPANY/Eri Majima／Dance Emerge

Eri Majima graduated from the ballet department of North Carolina School of the Arts. She studied at American Ballet Center in New York and danced with Alvin Ailey American Dance Center Workshop Company, Chen and Dancers and other modern dance companies. In 1996, she was nominated for the Japanese platform of Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, was invited to the Atlantic Center for the Arts and worked on a collaboration with American and Japanese artists. Majima received a grant from the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture in 2002.

Eri Majima aspires to create a unique worldview and body expression form with her wealth of experience and training as a foundation.
Choose particular expressions from this body, look at small everyday actions from different angles, and then enlarge and show.
Majima works both by creating pieces from these elements and through improvisation. As well, when working collaboratively with artists of other genres, she hopes that a way of life is revealed through each artist's various unspoken awkward feelings and that it is possible to be an honest person now.

Eri Majima would like to collaborate via improvisation-based communication with artists from different places and genres. Not limited to dance, she has high hopes that creativity will well up when exchanging with other artists who require mutual stimulation. She is also hoping to show Dance Emerge small group works, which express her personal worldview, both in Japan and overseas.