Naoko Tanaka 

Naoko Tanaka è nata a Tokio, dove ha studiato Arti Visive. Si forma poi come danzatrice a Dusseldorf, Germania. Dopo 10 anni, e il trasferimento a Berlino, esordisce con il suo primo lavoro solista 'Die Scheinwerferin', emblematico delle sue creazioni performative e installative in cui la coreografia e le arti visive sono intimamente connesse.

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Naoko Tanaka studied visual art in Tokyo University of the Arts. In 1999 she was awarded a scholarship at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, Germany. Since then she has created performance pieces and installations in which choreography and visual art are intimately related. Tanaka, together with the choreographer Morgan Nardi, founded the "Ludica." -artist collective in 2001, which was invited to the German Dance Platform in 2010.
In 2011 Naoko Tanaka created her first solo piece"Die Scheinwerferin"which is performed successfully around Europe. The show received in Novi Sad at the INFANT Festival the jury's prize of the jury for exceptional expression, it received the Prix Jardin d'Europe 2012 at ImPulsTanz and it received the ZKB Acknowledgement Prize 2012 at the Zürcher Theaterspektakel.
With the performance and installation Naoko Tanaka created a specific and artistic language. The second part of Tanakas ›shadow trilogy‹,"Absolute Helligkeit"premiered in July 2012 in SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin. Tanaka developed further her artistic language. She was responsible not only for the concept of the installation and performance but also the visual and sound design