Conan Amok is a Japanese director, choreographer, and dancer with roots in butoh. He creates works with themes of “distance” and “transformation” using the body and the time and space of the place as materials and media. Creates works that refer to design and physicality. He objectifies the body and proposes a unique dance method called “Multi layered body” based on phenomenological and sculptural perspectives. In addition to advanced dance techniques with sharp and calm movements, his work is characterized by a unique graffiti-like choreography between the daily life and extraordinary, connecting the whole through disconnection. Developing cross-disciplinary and transnational activities without being bound by preconceived notions. Everyday life, social environment, and period factors are closely linked to the motivation for the production, and the gestures that are inevitably created are incorporated into the production. In recent years, he has been working on a video work called “STEALTH BODY/CITY CAMOUFLAGE”, which uses the city as a backdrop for dancing, as Graffiti Dance. 

Conan’s performance is extremely wild. Nervous and animal-like gestures and growls made possible by his high physical ability, as well as repeated movements that seem to be moving toward exhaustion while hesitating, arouse a multifaceted energy. In contrast to these, weights, which are swung around and sometimes moved up and down with delicate hands, present gravity, and the consciousness common to all of these elements is transitive.