inkBoat

Founded by Shinichi Iova-Koga (aka: momo io), in 1998, inkBoat is a performance company built by and with the collaborative efforts of choreographers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, directors and actors. Working in fractured, filmic, delicate and decayed environments, inkBoat’s performance style is a hybrid of traditional and experimental dance and theater forms weaved with Physical Theater and Japanese Butoh Dance. All collaborators are independent visionaries that assemble according to project parameters. Living in San Francisco, Berlin, New York, Tokyo and Seattle, the group constellations range from 1 to 15 members, performing in Europe, Japan and North America at dance festivals, street festivals, ocean-sides and theatres. Venues (for both film and live performances) have included The Lincoln Center (Dance on Camera, NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), JCC (SF), Japan Society (NY), Theatre Artaud (SF), Noh Space (SF), San Francisco International Arts Festival, New York Butoh Festival at Theatre for the New City, San Francisco Butoh Festival at Theatre Artaud, Dance Mission (SF), Venue 9 (SF), JCC (SF), On The Boards (Seattle), Vancouver Dance Festival, Kunsthaus Graz (Austria), Dock 11 (Berlin), Pfefferberg (Berlin), Orph Theatre (Berlin), Fabrik Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany), Schloss Bröllin (Bröllin, Germany), i-camp (Munich), Attitudes Festival (Nancy, France), Divadlo Disc (Praha), Strasnicke Divadlo (Praha), Plan B (Tokyo), Strange Fruits (Tokyo), The Pit (Tokyo), Die Pratze (Tokyo) as well as various site specific performances at ocean sides, in old buildings and shrines. inkBoat has received funding from Rockefeller Foundation MAP fund (2002, 2006), Creative Capital (2005), Irvine Foundation/Dance USA (2002, 2006), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2002), Japan Foundation (2007), Zellerbach Family Fund (1997-2007), Meet the Composer (2001), Barkley Fund (1997), American Composers Forum (1999), CASH grant (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) and the California Arts Council (1999-2001).