Kenji Shinohe
Kenji Shinohe is a Japanese choreographer and dancer, based in Wuppertal. He has danced Ballroom dance with his grand mother since early childhood. He studied dance philosophy & art history in Japanese university then has MA. In 2015, he got a scholarship of International exchange student program to study at Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, GERMANY. Since 2019 he is working internationally as a freelance choreographer and dancer, being active in the performance scene in NRW. In his artistic work he is interested in bringing together body movements in relation to structures of music, approaches of extending the dance expression through the idea of metafictional techniques. His choreography pieces are invited and performed in many theaters over 15 countries and 40 cities.
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