The Sky is Vast! Miyazaki International Dance Festival

Ariana Figueroa [🇵🇷Puerto Rico]

Entre el impulso y la quietud
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Ariana’s practice centers on the body as a space of connection, listening, and inquiry. Working through improvisation and instinct-driven movement, she investigates physical presence, shared weight, and attentiveness as compositional tools. She is interested in processes that privilege risk, sensation, and transformation over fixed form, allowing the body to generate its own logic in relation to space and time.

Ariana is a contemporary dance artist holding a Bachelor’s degree in Dance from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. Her training expanded through participation in the Professional Workshop of Andanza Puerto Rico, with the company United We Dance in London, and through her involvement in the Revés platform in Costa Rica. She participated in ATLAS Puerto Rico in 2024 and 2025, as well as in the Dance City Festival in Detroit (2025).

Tsai Hung-Yi、Yang Chun-Yi[ 🇹🇼Taiwan]

Imaginary Enemy

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Uni Circus  is a Taiwan-based company dedicated to developing contemporary circus works that combine physical technique, theatrical language, and choreographic thinking.

Artists Tsai Hung-Yi and Yang Chun-Yi specialize in hand balancing and partner acrobatics. Their work explores the relationship between the body, space, and inner psychological states, creating performances that are both physically precise and emotionally intimate.

Norberto Collazo, Abraham Texidor, Anaís Torres [🇵🇷Puerto Rico]

A'Maria

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NA2 Dance Theater Corp. is a Puerto Rico-based contemporary dance company co-directed by Norberto Collazo and Abraham Texidor. The company creates and performs work that explores themes of corporeality, identity, gender, and social context through a highly physical and theatrical movement language. Rooted in both the local and the international, they have presented work in Puerto Rico, the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Their practice integrates diverse methodologies — including Afro-Caribbean traditions, improvisation, and somatic practices — to develop immersive and expressive performance. In addition to their global touring activity, they are deeply committed to arts education and community engagement, and lead the international platform ATLAS Contemporary Dance Congress.

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Maho Tasumi [🇯🇵日本Japan]

Clutter in the Desk

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Born in the United States in 2005, raised in Miyazaki. She began studying classical ballet under Rimi Nonomura and contemporary dance under namstrops from an early age. Currently enrolled in the Dance Education program at Ochanomizu University. Recipient of the Architectanz Artist Support Award at the Yokohama Dance Collection 2025 Emerging Choreographers section. Not great at keeping her room tidy.