OGURI is a dancer choreographer, Artistic Director of Body Weather Laboratory, co-artistic director of ARCANE Collective, and lecturer at UCLA School of Theater, Film, and TV. A native of Japan, Oguri is an internationally acclaimed dancer who improvises and collaborates with musicians, sculptors, painters, poets, and literature. Artist-in-residence at the Electric Lodge. He has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, New England Foundation of the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, and Metabolic Studio, The Japan Foundation, 2018 United States Artist Doris Duke Fellow and among others. MORE INFO

Statement for DANCE and EYE
In my creative process, I don’t rely on themes or concepts to make dances, but rather focus on objects considered in a space/time axis or images I have in mind. If the dance is a collaboration, my partner may shake-in an unexpected idea, demanding an immediate action in response. Scooping up and sifting material is the inspired dance that occurs spontaneously during creation. It is the essence of improvisation. This photography exhibition captures the improvisation in the act of taking a picture and the collaborative dance of the photographer and dancer.       -OGURI