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Norimatsu and Tetsuda first met at Okayama University Modern Dance Club in Japan. After graduation,
they started “FUTOME Performance” in Nagoya in 2009. Most of their performances have been 
choreographed and directed by Norimatsu since then.
Armed with their amiable character and powers, they have been appearing at a broad range of venues from 
small local events to theatrical stages, exploring potential of what they can express through dance based on 
their motto “fun”. 
From 2012 onwards, they are based in Fukuoka, travelling anywhere if asked - from domestic and 
international dance festivals to local pubs. In May 2017, they held the second independent show A Bubble 
That Won't Rise (directed by Momoko Shiraga, choreographed by Kaoru Norimatsu) in Fukuoka. 
Their awards include Audience Award at Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival vol.11, Grand Prize at SAI Dance 
Festival 2018 and Encouragement Prize at Yokohama Dance Collection 2019. 
2019 marks the 10th anniversary of Futome Performance, and they are looking forward to stepping up to 
the next level. The motto this year is “absorb”. 
Norimatsu participated in American Dance Festival 2012 (the United States) and Vertigo International 
Dance Program 2013 (Israel).
In 2013, she launched a dance project “OTORIYOSE KIKAKU” with two fellow dancers and holds a dance 
event on an annual basis. They staged Love and Estrangement at the Dance Selection project organized by 
Aichi Prefectural Art Theater in October 2018. 
She is one of the finalists of Toyota Choreography Award 2014.

Works

1. Virgin (Choreographed by Kaoru Norimatsu)
The sweet sweet fruit. I consume without hesitation.
The virgin’s prayer. Will it be sacrificed?
A dynamic tragedy. Sing again and again.
Do not lay to waste. Darling, darling.

Duration: 15 to 18 min. 
Premiered in February 2015 at Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival
Staged 13 times in 6 cities in 4 countries outside Japan. Also performed in Akita, Miyazaki and so on in Japan.
2. A Bubble That Won't Rise
(directed by Momoko Shiraga, choreographed by Kaoru Norimatsu)
A space full of bubbles.
A human, neither a mermaid nor a sea lion.
My flabby body after years of satisfying desires
struggles and squirms for ideals. 

Duration: 20 min or 50 min. 
The 20 minutes version premiered in February 2017 at Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival.
The 50 minutes version premiered in May 2017 at their own show at Edamitsu Honmachi Shotengai Irontheater.
Staged 3 times in 2 cities in 2 countries outside Japan. Also performed in Miyazaki, Saitama and so on in Japan.

3. The Ignited body
(choreographed by Choi Myung Hyun, Kaoru Norimatsu and Emi Tetsuda) 
Human bodies record our lives. After death, in what kind of state do bodies exist?
We focus on the spirit and flesh disappeared by death in this work, instead of the visible
state such as the bones left after cremation or the corpse being rotten on the earth. 
This is not for testifying something, talking about the invisible spirit or presenting 
something. 
The spirit to be saved by death out of the body.
May it coexist with space and turn into a part of nature.

Duration: 18 to 20 min. Premiered in August 2017 at Incheon Art Platform
Audience Award at Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival vol.11.
Grand Prize at SAI COMPETITION, SAI Dance Festival.
Staged 9 times in 3 cities in one country outside Japan. Also performed in Fukuoka, Saitama and so on in Japan.

4.Sento
(directed by Momoko Shiraga, choreographed by Kaoru Norimatsu)
We fight naked.  We pray for peace.

Duration: 60 min. Premiered in November 2019 at Kyoto art center.