The SETOUCHI CIRCUS FACTORY introduced its “Associate Artist” system in 2020
Under this system, a small number of artists who the SETOUCHI CIRCUS FACTORY wishes to encourage (as a general rule, artists whose activities are based in Kagawa Prefecture) are selected and their activities given the SETOUCHI CIRCUS FACTORY’s backup, receiving priority with regard to the provision of training facilities, creative support, and performance/workshop job opportunities.
In addition, the profiles of Associate Artists are displayed on the SETOUCHI CIRCUS FACTORY’s official website, together with their individual numbers and links to videos of their performances. Technical riders are prepared in both Japanese and English with the cooperation of the SETOUCHI CIRCUS FACTORY, assisting these artists to promote their activities overseas as well.
Associate Artists and SETOUCHI CIRCUS FACTORY are partners collaborating together to promote projects and achieve further contemporary circus development.
吉田 亜希 Aki Yoshida
From early childhood through until university graduation, Aki Yoshida dedicated herself to competitive gymnastics, subsequently going on to join the world of entertainment. In addition to aerial arts, she has studied dance, drama, and various other forms of physical expression.
Aki’s artistic activities cover a diverse range of genres including concerts by Ayumi Hamazaki, Hiromi Go, and other musical artists; National Cultural Festivals; expositions, theatrical performances, Bunraku (Japanese Puppet Theater) performances; television commercials; music videos; and brand parties. She has also performed widely overseas, including as a MGM COTAI Resident Aerial Artist and in the La Vigne France Tour and Finland x Japan Exchange Project in Finland, and she is registered with the Cirque du Soleil Artist Bank. In addition to performing, Aki is also active as an instructor and choreographer.
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Aki Yoshida ”kingyo” Short Version
Aki Yoshida “kingyo” full version
谷口 界 Kai Taniguchi
Director of contemporary circus Company “Gokko.” Graduated from Sawairi International Circus School. The main act is a Cyr wheel and handstand. He currently active as a unit, “White Asparagus” with juggler Takehiro Nagaoka. He appeared in Nagamekurashitsu” ,”Kazeno-Matasaburo” by Hiroshi Koike BP, “Cirsus” by Kaiji Moriyama and etc. He pursues the possibilities of the body with his unique ideas, which are not bound by disciplines. He moved to Kagawa in 2020 and be active as SCF Associate Artist.
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長谷川 愛実 Aimi Hasegawa
Born in Kagawa Prefecture. She has practiced rhythmic gymnastics and classical ballet since childhood. Completed a short-term training course at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, France. She studied aerial arts at the Aerial Art Dance Project, and is currently active as a circus artist both in Japan and abroad, performing on stages, concerts, theme parks, street performance festivals, and more.
In recent years, he has performed in a live tour by Yumi Matsutoya, the Japanese version of the Broadway musical “PIPPIN,” and “Fierce 5,” a contemporary circus piece by renowned French artist Raphael Boitel. He is a registered cast member of Cirque du Soleil.
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野瀬山 瑞希 Noseyama Mizuki
Born in Niigata Prefecture
Mizuki Noseyama began studying classical ballet in her early childhood and joined the ABC-Tokyo Ballet Company after graduating from high school. She subsequently studied at the Performing Arts Institute (P.A.I.) for one year.
Mizuki has performed in a variety of stage, recitation, and impromptu performances including the works of Kazuhiro Nishijima, Kimiho Hulbert, the Tarinof dance company, Yasuyuki Endo, Hiroshi Koike, Yoko Ando, and the Strange Kinoko Dance Company.
Mizuki is currently based in Kagawa Prefecture and has widened her field of vision to include contemporary circus, exploring forms of expression that transcend the genre of dance.
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Mizuki Noseyama ”Zu Zu Zu” Trailer
吉川健斗 Kento Yoshikawa
Born in Osaka, currently based in Kagawa.
Kento began to perform Juggling from seventeen years old. He was impressed with the performance of the street Juggling performer in a video, and then he has started to have a dream to be a circus performer. Kento entered Sori International Circus School and trained hard on juggling skills and the physical abilities. After graduation, he was based in Osaka, then he currently moved in Kagawa Prefecture to widen and deepen his ability.
He has also performed in Tainan Street Art Festival “Sakariba”, DAIDOGEI WORLD CUP IN SHIZUOKA, French Circus Focus 2021 “Fierce 5” at Setagaya Public Theater.
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本田雅治 Masaharu Honda
Masaharu Honda learned the dance of the wide genre including JAZZ and TAP, HIPHOP from 8 years old from Kanagawa commencing with ballet. Senzoku College of Music dance course top graduation. He major in a contemporary dance and study under Yoko Ando, Harumi Takeuchi and others. After he learned “Strength and beauty of body and population” “Space beyond the body and relationship of the connection” in university, move to Kagawa, and now he set out for the acquisition of the new skill with the sill wheel.
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