Performing Arts Exchange Program 2026 in Indonesia

Photo: Yarden Eshel

SHIN Michiru (b. 1992, Tokyo) is a dancer and choreographer based between Japan, the Middle East, and Europe. Her practice is rooted in improvisation, as well as site-specific, and participatory performance, approaching the body as a site of encounter and exploring intimacy and vulnerability. In recent years, her research has focused on vocal expression and voice messages, the relationship between distance and intimacy, and choreographic practices that cultivate shared agency. Working across performance, long-duration practice, and collective processes, she creates situations where audiences and performers negotiate meaning together rather than receive fixed narratives. She holds a BA in Visual Communication from the University of Brighton.

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TAMURA Mashiro works in performance / dance / music often in an interdisciplinary approach, and is based between Belgium and Netherlands. She is interested in collective work to question the distinctions of cultures, disciplines and bodies by treating the “in-between” as a space for exploration. Currently, she works on movement research with musical instruments as body parts, interweaving it with cyber feminist discourse of physical ambiguity. In 2025, she co-founded “delay no more” which is a pan-Asian collective of dancers who resist how the bodies of young women are perceived and categorized in the process of migration. They presented their first work “delay no more 0.1” with the Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2026. As a performer, Mashiro has worked for Anne Carson, Mette Ingvartsen, Benjamin Vandewalle and others. Acquired Bachelor in Dance at P.A.R.T.S. in 2025 and currently researching at the Masters program HOME of ArtEZ University in the Netherlands. In Japan, she studied dance and performed with KATO Miyako and KIHARA Kota. She lived in Jakarta, Indonesia from the age of 11 to 14, dancing with Studio Sumber Chipta and GIGI Art of Dance.

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FUSE Rintaro (b. 1994) is an artist based in Tokyo, Japan. His practice explores forms of solitude and the possibility of “being together as two” without dissolving differences between people, bodies, places, and times. Beginning with poetry and critical writing, he works across moving image, installation, painting, performance, websites, guided tours, exhibitions, and self-organized projects. Fuse’s work often develops through research, dialogue, and collaboration with practitioners from fields including architecture, information technology, literature, music, design, and urban studies. Rather than treating an exhibition simply as a space in which completed works are presented, he is interested in how a particular site, its history, and the actions of participants can transform the structure of a work. His projects have taken place not only in museums and galleries but also in former factories, urban sites, artificial caves, online spaces, parks, and planetariums. Recent exhibitions include Art Here 2025: Shadows at Louvre Abu Dhabi and Does the Future Sleep Here? at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. In 2025, he received the Richard Mille Art Prize.

Playwright, director, and actor. Based in Tokyo. Since 2010, he has been the artistic director of the theater company “horobite.” He explores “the harsh realities we find ourselves trapped in—realities that seem utterly hopeless” through theatrical and indirect means. While varying his approach depending on the work—ranging from contemporary ultra-colloquial drama to the theater of the absurd—he focuses on violence and those who have fallen through the cracks of society. He places great importance on the process of searching for the right words and creates his works through meticulous research. Operating on the premise that it is not necessary to appeal to the audience’s emotions by introducing causality into the narrative, he employs a playwriting method that strives to maintain a constant state of dynamism.

YOKOYAMA Ayano is a Tokyo-based choreographer, dancer, and artistic director of lal banshees. She began studying modern dance in childhood and later explored contemporary dance and hip-hop as a teenager. In her practice, she explores unique movements focused on Eastern bodily sensibilities. Rooted in terroir, lived experiences, and folk sensibilities, she creates works that uncover sensations and bring forth dance moments that transcend the boundary between the visible and the invisible. She creates both solo and group works with intricately structured and dynamic choreographic compositions. Her work explores diverse relationships between sound, movement, and embodied perception. The result is a unique choreographic language that resonates deeply on a sensory level and forms intricate connections with sound. In 2020, she received the Jury Prize (Grand Prix) at the Yokohama Dance Collection 2020, an international choreography competition, for her solo piece Suiyoubaion. The piece was later invited to the Aerowaves Spring Forward 2022 (Elefsina, Greece). Since 2021, she has received support from the Saison Foundation through the Saison Fellow I program.