COMPANY/Selenographica

1997: Maho Sumiji and Shuichi Abiru founded Selenographica.
2002: Participated in JCDN’s nationwide tour, We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! with Juka no Sogyo （Twin Fish） from October to December in Yokohama, Matsuyama and Sendai.
2005 July: Sumiji won the next generation choreographer award at the TOYOTA CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD 2005.
2006 August: At the award winner’s performance of TOYOTA CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD 2005, held at Theater Tram, Tokyo, Sumiji performed “What Follows the Act” and “This Endless Paragraph”.
2006: In September, Selenographica received an invitation to Lyon Dance Biennial and Meson de la culture du Japon a Paris （France）, and in October, to Dance Umbrella in the U.K.

Selenographica is pursuing a dance that is focused on searching movements and particular textures of the body.
The group also carries out a wide range of dance activities focused duet performances. The duo’s style is to recall things that are apt to be forgotten in daily life by their expressive body movements.
In recent years, the duo has performed in various locations and is always trying to improve their work. In 2003, Selenographica started the Kyoto Contemporary Dance Institute Center with martial artists, musicians, photographers and other artists.

Selenographica hopes to find new ways of presenting performances, for example, long-runs （repeat performances of popular pieces, scheduled in separate programs up to a week each）, or in-residence performance projects outside of the Kansai area （with rehearsals open to the public, and including workshops）. They would like to present these performances at locations such as resort areas where both audience and dancers are free from their daily activities.