Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Saori Kanda was brought up in Iraq (Baghdad), the United Arab Emirates (Dubai),
and Japan (Moriya City, Ibaraki Prefecture).
Graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design in the College of Art and Design at Musashino Art University
She paints and dances with music at the same time. She uses her hands to draw, she draws with her whole body, and she becomes a part of her artwork.
Crystal Crew is an alternative dance group from Helsinki, Finland. We create choreographic performances mixing modern dance with equipment like poi, fire, LED-lights, fan veils etc. Crystal Crew have been performing at some of the biggest electronic music festivals in Finland and Russia, such as Kosmos, Chill out planet and Metsäfestival and in many private parties from weddings to Halloween masquerades and charity events. We have had honor to perform with some of the world’s most famous electronic music artists including Ott, Skazi, Sensient, U-recken, Talpa and many others from Finland and elsewhere.
We would like to offer you crystalline sparkling and shimmering dance to your Dance of Shiva- festivals perfomed by two ladies full of northern girl energy. One performance lasts around 10 minutes and naturally includes choreography with beautiful fan veils, LED-poi and LED-wings. We can modify our performances for different artists as you wish and perform it two times if needed.
Thank you for reading this and hopefully we will be in touch as soon as possible! <3
「素足で大地にステップを踏むとき、私は"ただ、すべては、つながっている。"と感じる。」 www.odissi-swastika.com
Since 2006, Eiko Shinohara began her study of Odissi in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, she came to Odisha to learn Guru debaprasad Das style ODISSI.
Also She performed in several festivals in India including National Festival of Odissi Dance and Music. She received International Nritya-Mani Award 2011 and Debaprasad Samoroho Award 2016.
After her prolonged study under Rahul Acharya, she started to learn under world renowned Guru Durga Charan Ranbir.
Though a foreigner, Eiko is steadfast in her devotion to this dance form with a great respect for the vast and beautiful cultural heritage of India.
Also she is dedicated to training the young as a director of SWASTIKA, her own institute of Odissi Dance in Tokyo. www.odissi-swastika.com
FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL、東京ガールズコレクション、いのちの祭り、春風、Dance of shiva、OSHINODEAD、Re:birth、T.I.P Festival、Natural Smile、満月祭(福島県獏原人村)、O.Z.O.R.A. in Hungary with X-Dream LIVE、等。
Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Saori Kanda was brought up in Iraq (Baghdad), the United Arab Emirates (Dubai),
and Japan (Moriya City, Ibaraki Prefecture).
Graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design in the College of Art and Design at Musashino Art University
She paints and dances with music at the same time. She uses her hands to draw, she draws with her whole body, and she becomes a part of her artwork.
She won the Award for A'DESIGN AWRD (Milan Italy)Graphics and Visual Communication Design w/NISSAN Calendar artworks, performances at FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL, RED ROCKS(U.S.A) w/SHPONGLE, art performance on Japanese famous Rockband"Dragon Ash" music video “Lily” ,Canon EOS 5D Mark III WEBCM,and Alfa Romeo's TVCM.
Fasshion corroboration w/VIVIENNETAM,Life Paint tour in India,HongKong,France,Switzerland,Taiwan, and exhibition at Museum in Kazakhstan,Honking,and Taiwan.
Ceiling paint for the Spa in SHIMA Hot Spring as a artist of NAKANOJO ART BIENNALE. [ Life Painting -Saori Kanda's Creation ]
Saori Kanda calls her own creative work 'Life Painting'.
To draw life. To draw throughout her life. Or to draw staking her life.
You may take her words however you can.
To draw.
For her, it is not just to create artworks but it is to record her
encounters and her growth.
What you see in her work always is a festival of lines and colors that
breathes heavily holding enthusiasm within.
It is like a flower, like a body, or like a landscape of an unknown country.
Who is Saori Kanda that creates this?
Having spent her childhood in Baghdad and Dubai,
she says she always had a longing for Japan, a far country from where she was.
Certainly, in her work, it seems that influences from Arabic world and
elements of Japanese roots are inseparably interwoven in her depiction
of human body , detailed patterns, and the curves of her flowing
brushstrokes .
She does live with unbridled enthusiasm.
She draws, longs for encounters with people and places, travels,
talks, listens, gets worried, breaks, laughs, creates, sheds tears,
lives, communicates, and again, draws.
With all her strength and all her heart.
It does not matter if it is a live painting performance , a creation
of tableau, or a collaboration with other fields such as music,
fashion, and so on. She does what she does.
She jumps into the encounter throughout her body, communes with it,
and devotes herself to it. Then, she lets her brushes run.
The 'heat' that is boiling in all Saori Kanda's work is the 'heat'
liberated in a chemical reaction of the encounters with people,
things, and places throughout her life.
Life Painting. To live out her life is to draw.
text by Chiori Fujita / Curator at Tokyo National Museum
Kenjiro Otani / Translation
[Saori Kanda's concept]
The beauty of Japan that I have felt since I was a young child.
The beauty of the world.
Through my work, I connect the elements of skin, earth, paper, and clothing
with the forms of music, movies, dancing, and light.
My work reflects the encounters that I have had with various kinds of people
and how my body has reacted to them and the movements of my hands
I can truly say now that "I love to paint."
My dream is to create “Bathing Dyeing Gallery” where you can bathe your whole body in
and to keep painting the moment at which a flower blooms in the heart, traveling all over the world.