About Us
INNER-MINDS-EYES is a duo company which British Caribbean performer /choreographer D-shimmy and Japanese choreographer/ dance artist Safaia have established since 2009.
Their artistic directions and choreography aim to challenge what performance is; fusing their strong embodiment of their own cultural backgrounds, contact improvisation, and media form/technology into the new form of dance art.
Their collective fusion of dance techniques (such as physical theatre, Contact Improvisation, Street, Breaking and Circus techniques) with D-shimmy’s African& Caribbean backgrounds and Safaia’s Japanese and ballet backgrounds, creates unique body movements, breathing techniques and experimental creativity withing their choreographic processes and products.
INNER-MINDS-EYES focuses on how dancing body is to breathe real and as close to real mind and states in both 2D and 3D spaces, challenging human objectives and perceptions. Their works include multiple creations of media forms such as film recording and editing, installations, digital performance, film choreography, theatre creation onto film and live-cinema.
Their works has been performed around world such as London, Tokyo, Sweden, France, Germany, Poland, Dubai, and USA.
Awards
ZAWIROWANIA dance international choreographic competition finalist (4th, Poland)
Experimental Choreographic Award (UK)
Experimental Film Award (UK, UAE)
The 4th International Choreographic Captures Competition finalist (Germany)
Our Aesthetics
The most significance of INNER-MINDS-EYES's works is a living-moments and spiritual yet groundbreaking dance art form: creating movements through emotional phases, storytelling, the very raw and authentic energy that the directors produce and performers present.
Our naturally cohesive developmental processes allow our works to be received and interpreted by all kinds of audiences, but to also find elements of themselves in the works we produce.
Blends diasporic qualities, process and essence to establish - a connection that is both raw, traditional with a captivating uniqueness..
Honour the convergence of spiritual understanding, thoughts and absorption with an honest reference to the forms practiced
Strength to apply to any forms and to producing unexpected responses & changes in people through our choreographic process
Allows fluidity with a focus on real, raw responses, and treads the finite line between intercultural perception, beliefs and expectations; rising standards of stage, level and presentation
Our Style
"BORDERLESS"
A collective fusion of movements resides in our bodies, techniques and methods embodied in our performance experiences creates a sense of borderless and unlimited possibilities towards our dance artistry
"RAWNESS"
Focusing on drawing out our real emotions naturally to display through movements, which allows audience to feel rather than ‘look’ at performer’s movements. Authenticity is the key to this style.
"CHALLENGE"
This experimental form is very multi-cultured, and this encourage and challenges your kinetic energy to break all conventions and contemporary based boundaries of today’s dance techniques.
