Lindon Shimizu

Lindon Shimizu, a brazilian-japanese born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and raised in Japan. He moved to Joensuu/ Finland in 2015 and for the past nine years he has worked as a dance artist in dance, theatre, and video field and as dance and somatic teacher. He has worked crossing borders as a maker and collaborating between Brazil, Japan, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, and Iceland.

Currently he is planning, researching his new group dance piece "GRASP", producing a national tour with three dance pieces "BIRONGITAI", "Hatch'' and "While we are still__''.

He is producing a screendance installation with his three video dances "4:44", "인연- Bond-" and "Groundless Ground".

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His work in the videodance field is known by “4:44” (2018), “인연 – Bond” – (2019) and “Groundless Ground”. 4:44 won the International Screendance Festival Freiburg - Jury prize, New Cameras Award and was officially selected by the X Encuentro Para

Cinéfagos, Thessaloniki Cinedance International and the Nanometri Festival. 인연 - Bond – (2019) was officially selected by the Filmfest by Rogue Dancer.

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He is interested in the dialogue of an ethical-aesthetical-political-body as a strategy of being and creating, playing between liquids and membrane, contents, and container, creating in between. He is interested in what he refers to as a “migratorybody”, a perspective of creating from the place of an immigrant artist.