Mamoru is originally trained as a zoologist, then secondly as a theatre designer. He is also a self-taught performance maker.
His theatre design work includes Mincemeat (Cardboard Citizens, Best Design Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2009), The Wind in the Willows (Open Air Theatre Regents Park) and The Pink Bits (Mapping4D, Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Awards).
With the extended knowledge in designing space for performance and broad interests including 2D and 3D, gender and sexuality, parasitism and symbiosis, and fairytales and evolution theories, Mamoru started his own performance projects a few years ago. His two solo pieces Pregnant?!, Into the Skirt and a duo dance piece Projector/Conjector toured in the UK and internationally in countries including Germany, Ireland and USA. Mamoru also makes intimate one-to-one performance pieces which were shown in diverse locations including V&A Museum, ICA, Latitude Festival and Brixton Market Village.
He is a member of an artists’ peer-support group ‘Not Balloon’ supported by Artsadmin.
To download his C.V., click here
Publications
“Into.... Mamoru Iriguchi” (D’Ars 2010 September issue)
An interview by Clara Carpanini on Mamoru’s performance practice. D’Arz is Milan-based contemporary arts magazine.
Performance in Profile 2010 (British Council)
British Council booklet to introduce and promote British performance artists
deciBel 2009 (Arts Council England)
Booklet of ACE led performing arts showcase event where Mamoru introduced PREGNANT?!
Review Quotes
This work (a duet) is not at all 'just' a dance piece... dance is referenced in a beautifully techno-cuckoo way...It's also charmingly dead-pan, witty and inventive.
(Donald Hutera on Projector/Conjector)
...as well as being absurdly hilarious, it's also very sweet. One of the most imaginative things you'll see this (Resolution) season.
(Lyndsey Winship, Time Out Dance editor on Projector/Conjector)
Random, yet surprisingly enjoyable!
(Rhian Lewis, Resolution Review on Projector/Conjector)
Iriguchi’s wild imagination and rudimentary graphics could lead us anywhere
(Peter Crawley, The Irish Times on PREGNANT?!)
Mamoru Iriguchi wove an intricate and moving tale of life, death and birth
(Jon Pratty, The Guardian on PREGNANT?!)
...the experience is charmingly created and is worth a laugh or two
(Jake Orr, A Younger Theatre on This Headlight Is The Only Hope In The Dark)
Mamoru Iriguchi brilliantly remade the Shoreditch Cordy House into a bomb site, a refuge and the chilliest of morgues. (Susannah Clapp, The Observer on Mincemeat)
it's particularly gratifying to see something beyond the mainstream gain recognition with Mamoru Iriguchi winning the best design award (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian on Mincemeat)
Mamoru Iriguchi has created an ingenious set and colourful costumes
(Robert Hewison, The Times on The Wind in the Willows)
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