Dance Films
I find it helpful to use a camera to change my perspective. In 2020, Michelle Rose introduced me to the world of dance film, which inspired me to start creating my own films. Additionally, I had the opportunity to work as an international coordinator and curated more than 300 films for the 30@fps dance film festival at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
藍（ Indigo) 2023
My solo emerged from the concept of “Fish out of the water,” a metaphor for the state of someone living outside of their own mother’s culture. As I grew up 20 years in Japan and moved to the U.S. in 2016, I have been on a journey to understand the unconscious habits and way of knowing through the body. In this film, we explored, embodied, and visualized the process of adopting, changing, learning, and transforming myself into a living experience in a different country that is far away from my mother country.
Commissioned by Diversity for Dancers by Elisabeth Roskopf
Music: “The Solo” by Michael Wall
Choreography, and Performance: Yukina Sato
Cinematography and Editing: Rachel Malehorn
Lighting: Colin Gawronski
Documentary
The Archiving Black Performance, a multi-year project establishes a vision for the transmission of identity and race through the embodiment of repertory acquisition of internationally acclaimed Black women performers and choreographers. As a research assistant, I video documented four residencies throughout 2021-2023.
Yukina Sato 