About Us
INNER-MINDS-EYES is a duo company which British Caribbean dancer and choreographer Denzil D-Shimmy and Japanese choreographer and dance artist Aoba 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. INNER-MINDS-EYES has established its own unique dance style D-PHENESIS.
Their works has been performed around world such as London, Tokyo, Sweden, France, Germany, Poland, Dubai, and USA. Their works have won prizes/been awarded in Europe and Asia.
Our Aesthetics
Highlights the high strengths and quality within the choreographic movements
we create, and allow for other challenges using our unique and significant style
Opens for a larger type of audience access
Challenge
to compete on
an intercultural perception and expectation,
raise standards of stage and level
New approaches
using digital media, technology with choreography
to develop a new form of digital dance performance
where 2D and 3D
co-exists
Our Style
Most current innovation of INNER-MINDS-EYES is introducing evolutional performance techniques and style within choreographic practice.
The approach of our dance movements and choreography is living-moments and spiritual yet groundbreaking dance art form from inside out: creating movements through emotional phases, storytelling, the very raw and authentic energy that the director produces and performers present in order to represent our own brand of performances, which displays most significance of INNER-MINDS-EYES.
A collective fusion of dance techniques ranging and mixing physical theatre, contemporary,
contact improvisations, African and Caribbean, Japanese Traditional
movements incorporated mainstream styles such as street dance, hip-hop and breaking, krumping, circus techniques and methods
"ENDLESS FLOW"
Just like a blood running naturally through your vein, energy and phenomena evolves metaphoric entity which makes senses to your own body. Vibrant and rather intuitive, D-phenesis focuses on more of inner core level in your body and movements.
"RAWNESS"
The methodology and techniques focus on drawing out our real emotions naturally to display through movements and furthermore this allows you to vision your performance which allows audience to feel rather than ‘look’ at performer’s movements. Authenticity is the key to this style.
to compete on
an intercultural perception and expectation,
raise standards of stage and level
"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.
