Singer of "Miketsukuni"

SiMA

Beatboxing

Japan

An expressive sound artist utilizing mechanical, environmental, and human sound sources, SiMA is an active musician and beatboxer known for blending various sounds in creative ways.
Making full use of the "Humanbeatbox" loopers and effectors, he creates and plays music through livelooping techniques. His organically produced electro music always finds a way to invite audiences into a entirely new space.

Spirit of synchronicity

Kenshiro

Cyr wheel, acrobatics

Japan

Born in 1996, Kenshiro was unfamiliar to the circus world through college. But after a sudden encounter with an online video, he fell in love with the art of the Cyr wheel and began practicing immediately. Six months later, he made his debut as a performer, and has now grown to become a known face for Cyr wheel performances in Japan - performing at events throughout the entire country. Recently, he was selected as one of 15 "Next Artist" performers by renowned performance director Amon Miyamoto, and is now active on several fronts, despite his age and only having practiced Cyr wheel for three years. The extraordinary world view of his performance stems from the incorporation of acrobatics into his "danceable" Cyr wheel style that values a coexistence with sound.

Lively troupe

GENESIS

Baton twirling

Japan

GENESIS was founded by Kyoto and Shiga-based member Seishi Inagaki, who has previously performed with Cirque du Soleil and has earned 23 gold medals in world championships. Since GENESIS's formation as a performing group, it has gone on to receive a perfect score from all judges for two world championships in a row, as well as the Prime Minister's Award in a national competition.

Traveller with mysterious shoes

FALCON

Magic, pantomime, juggling, tap dance

Japan

Falcon was first inspired by the professional artists he witnessed during childhood, and by the age of four had become deeply interested in both magic and pantomime.
At the young age of 7, he made his performance debut as part of his dream to make other people smile. Soon after, he learned how to juggle and perform pantomime techniques, making his way toward a goal of becoming one of the world's active professional artists.
Recently, Falcon has worked on accumulating experience and expanding his artistic range with new stage acts including tapping and dancing, and has made several appearances in theme parks and on TV, starring in the movie "Seaside Movie Theater -Kinema no Tamatebako-" (directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi).

Fairy-like dancers

Nelia Ivanova ＆
Svitlana Shlikhter

Ballet dance

Ukraine

● Nelia Ivanova
She completed her education as a ballet dancer at the Odessa University of the Arts. After graduating, she performed as a dancer at the Lviv National Opera House for two years, and has also appeared in numerous well-known productions including The Nutcracker (as a soloist), Don Quixote, Giselle, Swan Lake, and Esmeralda.

● Svitlana Shlikhter
While a professional ballet dancer at the Serge Lifar Dance Academy in Kiev, she performed at the National Theater as a soloist, participating in several competitions pertaining to both classic and modern dance styles. After her graduation, she continued by appearing in performances at the Lviv National Opera for a period of two years.

Foreign performer

The Street Circus

Acrobatics, hand-to-hand, hula hoop

Canada

Daniel and Kimberly Craig have over forty five years of combined circus experience, having toured over thirty five countries and performed their show in five languages. They bring the whole nouveau circus experience to every street, festival or theatre, performing cyr wheel, hand-to-hand acrobatics, hula hoops, handstands, juggling, and of course- comedy..! Wherever they perform- in any country- in any language- Daniel and Kimberly bring an immense and youthful energy to every stage with nonstop, high energy, upbeat circus entertainment!

Storm spirit

Matsu

Freestyle acrobatics, tricking

Japan

His performances are largely focused on a combination of martial arts-based freestyle acrobatics and tricking, utilizing his long limbs to pursue beautiful aerial posture and artistic expression. Also active as an athlete, he has competed with success in the Asian Games.

Life spirit

Kojiro Meguro

Hand balance, circus act

Japan

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1996, Kojiro enrolled at Sawairi International Circus School at the age of 18, and engaged in physical training for four years until graduation. Since then, he has been primarily active as a circus actor based in Kanto, Japan with a performance act that evokes an intimate and personal worldview; created using objects and iron pipes designed by Kojiro himself.
Throughout his career, he has appeared in a variety of creative circus performances produced by Nagame Kurashitsu and the Setouchi Circus Factory, as well as others created by the international contemporary circus exchange project "Air". Kojiro won the Fukuyama International Street Performance 2021 Grand Prix award, and his talents have also been further acknowledged by having attained both the German Special Award and British Special Award.

Pine spirits

Riku ＆ Lena

Tricking, movement art, contemporary dance

Japan

Russia

● Riku
Born in Tokyo, Riku is a rapidly emerging performer in martial arts-rooted freestyle acrobatics, and has already won national competitions in his youth through the presentation of his unique "tricking" body movements.
Today, his presence as one of Japan's most singular movement performers is marked an effort to expand outside of tricking, adding his own originality and sense of experimentation through the incorporation of elements from silhouette dance and floorwork.
His recent collaborations include an appearance in the visual piece "Botai (Mother's Womb)" with flower artist Ki Inoue, as well as work with fellow dancer Sho Ikushima in the performance "On Life: Tsuyu". He performed in the production "Because We Are Strange Creatures" with the American dance company Jacob Jonas The Company, broading the scope of his activity to the international level.
As an instructor, he regularly offers workshop classes in relation to his work, covering topics such as acrobatics and floorwork.

● Lena (Elena Gradkovskaya)
Elena has graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Arts and Culture, (Specialization - Dance teacher, Choreography), where she had been studying different types of dances, such as Ballet, Dances of different nationalities, Modern dance, Choreography, etc. After that, she has been studying for 2 years of Ballet composition course in the Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory. Later she received a Master's degree in Vaganova Ballet Academy on the Specialization “Scientific and creative laboratory of compositions of contemporary dance forms”. She constantly develops her contemporary dance skills by visiting different workshops worldwide.

音楽島 -Music Island-

Music band

Japan

Violin - Mai Kiren
Saxophone - Asuka Tadokoro
Trumpet - Ayumi Kadomatsu
Piano - Ryo Oguri
Drums - Joe
Bass - Natsuna Saito

Ama traveler

Yuji Fujisaki

Male Vocal

Traveler's wife

Hikaru Ishizaka

Female Vocal

August 2020 marked the beginning of the "Music Island" project, a new effort to revitalize Awaji Island through music. With an initial focus on Awaji Island's west coast, many events such as the "Ocean Terrace Jazz Night" and "Musical & Opera Night" have been held every week since September 2020. Additionally, many events have been fronted by the backing band of singer Asato Shizuki, who has made appearances in Hello Kitty Show Box's character show, the September 2021 musical, "Dou ni ka narusa ~Kobe Jazz Monogatari~", and as a jazz band member in the December 2021 performance "IL Male ~Umi ni dakarete~". With now over 30 musicians in residence, the Music Island project continues to attract art to Awaji Island and challenge the possibilities of new working lifestyles.