DEI Dance Facilitation Course: Pursuing Expression Born from Diversity
Nohara College 2025 Basic

"Nohara" refers to free creation and expression through one’s own body while respecting individuality and valuing engagement with the environment. We are training facilitators in order to expand this activity. In the Nohara College course, participants develop their practical facilitation skills through inclusive dance workshops held at public cultural facilities, and welfare facilities, etc., while at the same time learning the theories and knowledge that are unique to Nohara.
This project is a continuation of the course implemented in FY2024, and it is jointly sponsored by Chofu City Green Hall, Tiara Koto, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Midori Art Park, and the NPO Inclusive Field for Dance. As a place where diverse people from across specialties and fields, such as arts and welfare, etc., gather, our aim to be a driving force for the birth of dialogue and re-learning, and for facing and changing society from the fields of culture and art.
DEI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Content

Program
7/26 (Sat): Orientation
Lecture ①: Nohara's Philosophy and the N-method
Discussion ①: Nohara and the Uniqueness of the N-method
7/27 (Sun)
Lecture ②: Nohara's Practice in Society
N-method Practice ①: Group work: Creating Programs
8/2 (Sat)
N-method Practice ②: Chofu Group Mock Practice
Discussion ②: Review of Mock Practice
8/3 (Sun)
Facilitation Practice ①: Facilitation with Green Green Nohara
Discussion ③: Review of Green Green Nohara
8/16 (Sat)
N-method Practice ③: Tiara Koto Group Mock Practice
Discussion ④: Review of Mock Practice
8/17 (Sun)
Facilitation Practice ②: Facilitation at Tiara Expression Workshop "Nohara Full"
Discussion ⑤: Review of Nohara Full
Outreach
We will hold outreach dance workshops at welfare facilities, etc., in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture from September onward, and the results of these workshops will be reported at a meeting scheduled to be held in March.
Planned Facilities:
• Social welfare corporation Adachi no Sato "Kibo no Sono" (Adachi Ward, Tokyo)
• Social welfare corporation Adachi no Sato "Ayase Himawari-en" (Adachi Ward, Tokyo) and others
Program Officers and Instructors
Nishi Hiroko