Yuri Shimaoka
is a Japan born dancer, ballet teacher and Shiatsu practitioner based in Berlin.
Her interests stand on tactile deep listening and therapeutic phenomena in subconscious reaction.
She has trained in dance drawing from different sources, from ballet school to studying Japanese martial arts Budo from master Akira Hino, to visiting The Forsythe Company and assisting Yoko Ando, former dancer in the company.
Since 2015 she is based in Berlin and has been collaborating with various artists in screen, VR, installation and dance.
As a guest ballet teacher, she has been giving ballet classes with a somatic approach in dance companies, open dance studios and schools and experimenting drawing autonomous collective healing.
She is one of the co-founders of a body workers collective "Considering network“, where the members experiment economical mutual support, practice co-regulation and politics of care.
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Photo: Ben Johnson, Deep Sky Objects, Matteo Marziano Graziano
Work with
Theater: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wintergarten Variete
Choreographer: Akira Hino, Mårten Spångberg, Julia Maria Koch, Christine Bonansea, Tarren Johnson, Corina Kinnear, Tomer Zirkilevich, Jara Serrano, Martin Butler, Matteo Marziano Graziano, Rob Fordeyn, Joel Small, Laura Witzleben, Eva Papadopoulos, Moritz Majce, Ellen Söderhult
Artist: Okwui Okpokwasilli (10th Berlin Biennale), Clement Couderc, Linards Kulless, Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst, Jeremy Shaw, Ersan Mondtag, Hungry
Musician/Composer: Alice Poebe Lou, Scott Rubin, Rowan Hamwood, Tim Scanlan, Tatsumi Ryusui, Nenad Popov, Asia Ahmetjanova, Adam Goodwin, Jack Adler-McKean, Ensemble MAZE, Catch Penny Ensemble, Giorgio De Santis, Lou Drago
Creative coder: Krisjanis Rijnieks
Video: Martin Mostert, Craig Murray, Irrum Khan
Production Assistant: Yoko Ando, Yoko Ando and YCAM InterLab, Saori Hala, Craig Murray
Movement coach: Hanako Hayakawa
Outside eye: Rob Fordeyn, Rocio Marano
Collective: International Agency of Space Affairs (IASA), Considering Network
Guest teacher at
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Marameo, Tanzfaktur Köln, DART, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Motions*, Center of Dance, DOCK11, Movimentdanza (IT), Tanztheater Gießen, Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company and among other places
Awards
DIS-TANZ-SOLO "Research of practical and sustainable sense of care: use of Systemic Constellation in ballet class and artistic practice", Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (2021)
Scholarship at DanceWeb 2019 at InPulsTanz, Vienna (2019)
Other Skills
Peak Pilates Certified Trainer (2020-)
Shiatsu Certified Practitioner (2023-)
Family Constellation (in Training)
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