Hiroaki Umeda is a choreographer and a multidisciplinary artist recognised as one of the leading figures in the Japanese avant-garde art scene.

His use of technical art forms, such as light mapping, projection and lighting design lift his various pieces to new heights that are rarely witnessed in the realm of dance. Since the launch of his company S20, his subtle yet violent dance pieces have toured around the world to critical acclaim.

Hiroaki Umeda’s work is acknowledged for its highly holistic artistic methodology with a strong digital background, which considers not only physical elements as dance, but also optical, personal, sensorial and, above all, spatiotemporal components as part of the choreography.In our everyday life, humans assemble a plethora of informative signals into manageable units and recognize them, for instance, as an individual, an object, or certain scenery. 

Hiroaki Umeda hypothesizes that these batches of abstract information are merely our belief system; 'When one has confidence in an object's factuality they name it as real, and when this confidence is slightly undermined they rename it as virtual.' This is what Hiroaki Umeda is able to communicate in his various works.