YOKO SEYAMA Multimedia artist, Scenographer (1980, Tokyo, Japan) ​ ​ Zehdenicker Str. 7 10119 Berlin, Germany +49 (0) 157 772 761 51 [email protected] www.yokoseyama.com <THEATER Production, Scenography, Light design, Costume (the date on Premiered) > ​ ​ 2020 12 Set design for musical ‘Miss Saigon’ for St. Petersburg Theatre of Musical Comedy ​ ​ Director: Cornelius Baltus (11. December, RU) 2020 10 Secenography for dance ‘Winterreise’ for Theatre Trier ​ ​ Choreography: Roberto Scafati (17. October, DE) 2020 02 Set design and Light concept for Ballet, ‘Beethoven Immortal Love’ for Astana Opera ​ ​ choreography: Raimondo Rebeck (14. February, KZ) 2020 01 Set design and Light Installation ‘Dimension’ for Dance Theatre Heidelberg ​ ​ choreography: Iván Pérez (24. January, DE) 2019 08 Set design for dance ‘STAY / AWAY’ for Hook Dance Theatre ​ ​ choreography: Frankie Ho, Bruce Wong (8. August at Artistree, HK) 2019 03 Set, Light design for dance 'Die Reise in die Hoffnung / Viaggio' for Theater Trier ​ ​ choreography, Direction: Roberto Scafati (9. March at Theater Trier, DE) 2019 03 Set and Costume design for dance 'Afterimage' for National Dance Company Wales ​ ​ choreography: Fernando Melo ( 1 March 2019 at Newport, UK) 2018 05 Set design for Ballet 'WAS BLEIBT' for Staatsballett Berlin, choreography: Gentian Doda ​ ​ (24. May, Komische Oper Berlin, DE) 2018 04 Set, Light design and Visual concept for Ballet 'Moving Colours' ​ choreography: Armen Hakobyan, Denis Untila (Premiered: 28. April, Aalto Ballett Essen, DE) 2018 03 Scenography and Light design for dance ‘Women 17/27’ for EBB Junior ​ ​ (Premiered: 13 Mar, Teatro Conde Duque Madrid, Spain, direction: Jean-Philippe Dury ) 2018 01 Set design for Operetta 'Die Fledermaus' direction and choreography: Giorgio Madia ​ ​ (Premiered: 14. Jan, Grand Theatre, Łódź, PL) 2017 03 Scenography ‘Beethoven Sonata’ for The New National Ballet of Japan, choreography: Megumi Nakamura ​ ​ (Premiered: 18. March, The New National Theater Tokyo, JP) 2017 03 Set and light design ‘Pepper's Ghost’ for Norrdans, choreography: Fernando Melo ​ ​ (Premiere: 11. March, Norrdans, Härnösand, SE) 2016 11/12 Kinetic sculptures ‘ Delays of Falling.’ and costumes, ‘x / groove space’ choreography: Sebastian Matthias ​ ​ (Festival/Tokyo Metropolitan theater, Tokyo, JP / Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, DE) 2016 09 Scenography, ‘The Nutcracker’ for Leipzig Ballet, choreography: Jean-Philippe Dury ​ ​ (Premiere: 24 Sep, Opera Leipzig, Leipzig DE) 2016 06/08 Kinetic sculptures ‘ Delays of Falling.’ and costumes, ‘x / groove space’ choreography: Sebastian Matthias ​ ​ (TANZHAUS NRW, Düsseldorf Germany, Tanz im August, Sophiensaele, Berlin, DE) 2014 05 Scenographic light, sculpture and choreography, ‘SAIYAH’ ​ ​ Ensemble electronics music by Benjamin Staern (Premiere: 7 May, at Norrlands Operan Umeå, SE) 2013 03 Scenography ‘LIEBER ADZIO’ choreography: Jitti Chompee ​ ​ (Premiere: 17 March, Sodsai Pantoomkomol, Chulalogkorn University, Bangkok, TH) 2012 11 Installation / Scenography ‘Brittle Failure / Paredes de Papel’ choreography: Lesley Telford ​ ​ (Premiere: 24 Nov, Corral de Comedias de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares ES) 2011 04 Scenography for new media pocket opera ‘The Awakening’ (9 April, Philips Fabriek, Zwolle NL) ​ ​ 2011 03 Scenography for CND2 ‘Everything Might Spill’ choreography: Lesley Telford ​ ​ (18 March, Theatro de Madrid, Madrid ES) 2010 01 Costume design for Syuto Yasuyuki and Megumi Nakamura ‘Time Yard’ ​ ​ (7 Jan, Kanagawa Art Hall, Yokohama JP) 2009 10 Installation / Scenography "Present of Past" Korzo production 'DroceraCapensis' ​ ​ choreography: Pedro Gomes Goucha (29 Oct, Korzo Theater, The Hague NL) 2009 10 Set design for ' Mémoires d’Oubliettes ' choreography: Jiří Kylián, Nederland Dans Theater I ​ ​ (28 Oct, Lucent Dans Theater, The Hague NL) 2008 05 Installation / Scenography for M.I.J.N. Festival in Korzo Theater (Premiere: 8 May, The Hague NL) 2008 01 Space design for ‘Diable au corps’ choreography: Jérôme Meyer & Isabelle Chaffaud ​ ​ (Premiere: 10 Jan, Korzo Theatre, The Hague NL) 2007 08 Costume for dance for NOISM choreography: Megumi Nakamura ‘Waltz’ (Nigata JP) ​ ​ 2006 07 Scenography New Media Pocket Opera ‘ garden of dream’ ​ ​ Direction: Daniel Schorno (Forum Neues Musiktheater, Stuttgart, DE) <EXHIBITION> Solo work 2020 10 Solo / Related exhibition of dance performance ‘Winterreise Artworks’ (Trier, DE) ​ ​ 2019 11 Group / LUNA - Urban Night Adventure 2019 'Saiyah #2' (Leeuwarden, NL) ​ ​ 2019 01 Group / Vilnius Light Festival 2019 'Saiyah #2' (Vilnius, LT) ​ ​ 2018 12 Group / Japanese Christmas Market in Berlin ‘Colour Spin - Yellow (Prototype)’, Malzfabrik (Berlin, DE) ​ ​ 2018 09 Group / LUMINA Festival of Light 'Saiyah #2' (Cascais, PT) ​ ​ 2018 05 Group / Svetlobna Gverila, 12th Lighting Guerrilla festival 'Saiyah #2'‘Melody Dots 14’(Ljubljana, SL) ​ ​ 2018 01 Group / EVI LICHITUNGEN International Light Art Biennale 'Saiyah #2.4', (Hildesheim DE) ​ ​ 2017 11 Group / Exhibition Unfolding Kafka Festival 2017 'Saiyah #2.3', ​ ​ (Bangkok Citycity Gallery, Bangkok, TH / MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum Chiang Mai, TH) 2016 08 Solo / Yoko Seyama Selected Works, Gallery2 (Berlin DE) ​ ​ 2015 05 Group / Exhibition LIGHT CIRCUIT, ACUD Berlin ‘Saiyah #2’ (Berlin DE) ​ ​ 2015 03/04 Group / Annex exhibition 2015, Pola Museum Annex Gallery ‘Saiyah #2’ (Tokyo JP) ​ ​ 2014 09 Group / Collective Futures Berlin 2014, Berlin Community Radio ‘Melody Dots 14’ (Berlin DE) ​ ​ 2013 01 Group / Cadance Festival ‘Inaccessible Home’ (The Hague NL) ​ ​ 2012 07/09 Group / Wood Street Galleries ‘Light work #6: In Soil’ (Pittsburgh USA) ​ ​ 2010 10 Solo / Korzo 5 hoog ‘AMA KO raindrums’ ( The Hague NL) ​ ​ ​ ​ 2010 08/09 Solo / MediaLab Enschede ‘Light work #6: In Soil' (TETEM Enschede NL) ​ ​ 2010 02/05 Group /SonicActsXIII 'Light work #6: In Soil' (Netherlands Media Institute NIMk, Amsterdam NL) ​ ​ 2009 10 Group / E-pulse festival in Breda, ‘Light work #6: In Soil’ (Breda NL) ​ ​ Collaboration work 2019 08 Solo/ Exhibition ‘Stay/Away’ collaboration with Hook Dance Theatre, Artistree Taikoo Place (HK) ​ ​ 2018 08/10 Solo / Exhibition ‘Delays of Falling’ Yoko Seyama + Dirk P Haubrich, OBLIK (Berlin, DE) ​ ​ 2016 09 Group / Visual Art Week, Argentina, 'Plane Scape' (Buenos Aires, AR) ​ ​ 2015 09 Group / TodaysArt. JP, Kobe Art Village Center 'Plane Scape' (Kobe JP) ​ ​ 2015 09 Group / TodaysArt. JP, Terrada warehouse 'Plane Scape' (Tokyo JP) ​ ​ 2015 02 Group / Artifact Festival 15, STUK 'Plane Scape' (Leuven BE) ​ ​ 2012 10 / 2013 4 Group / Center for International Light Art in Germany 'Plane Scape' (Unna DE) ​ ​ 2012 01/02 Solo / Platform 57 'Plane Scape' (The Hague NL) ​ ​ 2011 10/11 Group / 5Mm | vijf minuten museum 'Plane Scape' (Eindhoven NL) ​ ​ 2011 10 Group / Scopiton Festival 'Plane Scape' (Nantes France) ​ ​ 2011 09/10 Group / E-pulse festival in Breda 'Plane Scape' (Breda NL) ​ ​ 2011 05/07 Group / KAAP 2011 Fort Ruigenhoek, ‘Sleeping Bears’ (Utrecht NL) ​ ​ 2010 11 Group / STRP festival, ‘Transient Landscapes’ (Eindhoven NL) ​ ​ 2010 09/10 Solo / Project prize Filmhuis Workspace 10, ZAAL5 'Plane Scape' (The Hague NL) ​ ​ 2010 09 Group / TodaysArt 2010 Den Haag 'Plane Scape' (The Hague NL) ​ ​ 2010 04/06 Solo / Research project ‘a state of flux’ artist in residence at Scheltema (Leiden NL) ​ ​ 2010 02/05 Group / TransNatural, Multiplexart ‘Gardening’ ( Trouw Amsterdam NL) ​ ​ 2009 12 Group / Winter Wired Festival Installation 'DroceraCapensis' (The Hague NL) ​ ​ 2009 06/07 Group / Master Artscience Graduation Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art The Hague Performative installation ‘transient landscapes’ (The Hague NL) ​ ​ 2009 04 Group / 'Med!aphosis' (Gallery Dom omladine, Belgrade, Serbia) <EDUCATIONAL DEGREE> 2009 MASTER in Art science at Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, The Netherlands) 2004 BACHELOR in Architecture at Musashino Art University (Tokyo, Japan) <EXPERIENCE> 2005 – 2006 Theater and Film Design at Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 2004 Central Saint Martins Summer Course, Theater Design (London, UK) Classic Ballet, Contemporary dance, Butho, Yoga <GRANT, PRIZE> 2013/2014 Grant from Pola Art Foundation fellowship program (Japan) 2010 Prize from Filmfuis Den Haag WORK SPACE 10 (The Netherlands) 2020 Prize ‘the 22nd Hong Kong Dance Awards’ Outstanding Small Venue Production 'Stay/Away' for Hook Dance Theater (Hong Kong) 2020 Nomination ‘the 22nd Hong Kong Dance Awards’ Outstanding Set Design 'Stay/Away' for Hook Dance Theater (Hong Kong) <LANGUAGE> Japanese, English, German (B1+) UPDATED on 27. 02. 2021 .