Hanako Hayakawa is a Japanese dancer and dance maker. She graduated from P.A.R.T.S. training cycle in Brussels. Prior to that, she studied in Tama art University where she majored in Performing Arts mentored by Saburo Teshigawara for a year. She works with international artists such as Tino Sehgal, Miet Warlop, Leiko Ikemura, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Emmilou Rößling, Simon Van Schuylenbergh, Tetsuya Umeda, Norbert Pape.

Her choreographic work is an extension of her dance practice and is built on a combination of her experiences as a dancer, performer, and mediator. In 2022 she participated in “made in Berlin” research residency programme in Lake studio Berlin. She got a stipend by #takeHeart for her research Killing scores and Ghostly body-Research on Para Para Dance 2023 where she extended her research within the residency programme of Toyoka Theatre Festival (2023), Dance Base Yokohama, BUDA Kortrijk and A TWO DOG COMPANY in Brussels. She premiered her very first solo dance piece Lurker in Desingel Antwerp within the frame of festival Bliss in October 2024 and German premiered in Tanztage 2025 at Sophiensäle January 2025.

About the master program Exerce:
Initiated in 2011, in partnership with the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, the master Exerce is an internationally recognised training programme, accompanying artists – choreographers, performers – who are the authors of their dance projects and research. The investigation of the ways of working as a choreographer, as a researcher, as a citizen, is at the heart of the master Exerce, which invites to widen the perimeter of choreography and to pursue the approach between artistic processes and research methodologies.

About Kidows Kim:
Monstrosity is the theme of Kidows Kim's work. Trained as a graphic designer in South Korea, he left his native country for Paris, where he graduated as a mime artist in 2015, before embarking on training in contemporary dance at the CNDC in Angers and as part of the master's programme in Montpellier. Performing for Vincent Dupont and Jonathan Capdevielle, his choreography wanders between the abstract and the figurative, while appropriating the imaginary world of manga, the cyberpunk movement and the paintings of Francis Bacon. He is a member of the collectif cohue. His creations form an intimate cosmogony in the shape of a Dictionary of Fantastical Creatures. He unveiled the first chapter, a strangely monstrous solo titled FUNKENSTEIN (2021), followed by the second part, CUTTING MUSHROOMS (2023), which delves into an unfinished micro-transformation. He is currently working on the third installment, HIGH GEAR (2025).
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