Lindon Shimizu, a japanese brazilian born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and raised in Japan, currently based
in Joensuu, Finland. He works as a dance artist in theatre, dance and video field and as somatic
movement educator. He holds a theatre license degree from UERGS, Brazil. He has worked for many
years with the Brazilian dance director Dani Lima, being part of research projects with dance pieces
as “100 gesture” and “little collection of everything” presented around Brazil and Japan between
2011 to 2016. Currently, he is creating his own solo performance in collaboration with the dance
artist Dasha Lavrennikov supported by Zodiak and directing the dancer Tuija Lappalainen in Birongitai
(ビロンギタイ) project in collaboration with ITAK. He is interested in the dialogue of an ethical-
aesthetical-political-body as a strategy of being and creating, playing between liquids and membrane,
contents and container, creating in between. He is interested in what he refers to as a “migratory
body”, a perspective of creating from the place of an immigrant artist.
