top of page

​Profile

IMG_7897ken2 - Kopie.jpg

P​hoto by Ralf Silberkuhl

  • Facebook Social Icon
  • X
  • Instagram Social Icon
  • Vimeo Social Icon

Kenji Shinohe

A dance worker based in Wuppertal.

Kenji Shinohe is a Japanese choreographer and dancer born in 1990, based in Wuppertal / Germany. He has danced Ballroom dance with his grand mother since early childhood. He represented Japan at the junior World Ballroom Dance Championships when he was teenage. He studied dance philosophy & art history in Japanese university then has MA. In 2015, He got a scholarship of International exchange student program to study at Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany.

 

After graduating there in summer 2019, his carrier started as freelance dancer & choreographer. As dancer, he work with company NEUR TANZ (Düsseldorf), Tanztheater Erfurt (Erfurt), Carla Jordão (Köln), Kompanie merighi | mercy (Wuppertal), Saeed Hani (Luxemburg), Dinamo Danza (Pamplona / Spain), and more international choreographers.

As choreographer, he was awarded with the first prize and the audience award at „contact.energy 16" in the 5.Internationales Tanz Theater Festival 2016 in Erfurt, Best New comer solo prize at 10.Internationales Tanzfestival SoloDuo NRW in Köln 2018 and Best Solo prize and Audience Award at SzólóDuó International Dance Festival 2019 in Budapest / Hungary, 5 awards he won in TEATRI RIFLESSI 8 in Catania / Italy in 2023.

 

He has received international acclaim for several choreographic works, both his own solo and group dances. In his artistic work he is interested in bringing together body movements in relation to structures of music, approaches of extending the dance expression through the idea of metafictional techniques. His choreography pieces are invited and performed in many theater over 15 countries 55 cities. 

お問い合わせはこちらにお願いします。

​Please send your message from here. ↓↓↓

Your details were sent successfully!

bottom of page