Opening Up

The horizon above the sea of ​​Nagasaki: even as a child, Minako Seki was fascinated by this line that doesn't move. It separates the movements of sky and clouds, water and waves from each other and simultaneously connects them. "Everything around us moves, but this line remains still. What is this line and what lies behind it?" Minako Seki's answers don't provide facts; it's not about understanding. They leave behind images that one can further develop, an offering oscillating between memory and imagination. "I thought the moon was following me, I got scared and ran away from it." These early experiences, full of childlike perception and poetic exaggeration, form the starting point from which the Japanese choreographer, dancer, and educator Minako Seki describes her connection to dance.

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