It is with great joy and pride that Wi-fi Body Festival and the Contemporary Dance Network Philippines announces that our official representative to the Yokohama Solo x Duo Competition, Rhosam Prudenciado Jr. has won the Grand Prize.
Sam won for his expanded version of "Which Way," which placed second at the New Choreographers Competition at Wi-fi Body Festival 3 in 2008. As one of the winners of our competition, his entry was endorsed to the Yokohama Competition, where he was chosen as one of 15 finalists.
Held to uncover, support, and train promising young choreographers from around the world, the Yokohama Solo x Duo + received 192 entries from fourteen countries this year, a new record. The fifteen finalists, selected by screening the videos they submitted, competed for prizes.
Rhosam shall embark on a six month study in France as part of his prize.
The jurors consisted of the following:
【The Yokohama Solo x Duo + 】Jurors
Rebecca Lee: Manager, Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
ITO Junji: Culture professor at Toyama University, Art critic
KAWASAKI Toru: Director
MURAKAMI Kasumiko: Writer
HAMANO Fumio: Senior Staff Witer,” DANCE MAGAZINE”
Hélène Kelmachter: Cultural Attache, Embassy of France
Philippe Laleu: Director, Institut Franco-Japonais à Yokohama
FUJISAKI Nobuhiro: Director, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1
【The Yokohama Solo x Duo + 】Jurors
Rebecca Lee: Manager, Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
ITO Junji: Culture professor at Toyama University, Art critic
KAWASAKI Toru: Director
MURAKAMI Kasumiko: Writer
HAMANO Fumio: Senior Staff Witer,” DANCE MAGAZINE”
Hélène Kelmachter: Cultural Attache, Embassy of France
Philippe Laleu: Director, Institut Franco-Japonais à Yokohama
FUJISAKI Nobuhiro: Director, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1
As festival director of Wi-fi Body Festival for its initial three years, I can say that this victory belongs to everyone who has made our festival a success and who have worked hard for this festival to become the wonderful gathering of dance artists that it is.
We thank our friends and supporters at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, National Commission for Culture and the Japan Foundation Manila and our host organization for the festival for three years, World Dance Alliance-Philippine s. We thank them all for their faith in our vision for a contemporary dance festival in the Philippines.
“the greater the number and the wider the range of people working creatively, the greater the possibilities for artistic growth. And that, after all, is what it’s all about…” (Jack Anderson)
This victory is shared by the entire contemporary dance community.
To more exciting dance!
Myra C. Beltran
Festival director, Wi-fi Body 1, 2 and 3
Dance Forum
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