{"id":16308,"date":"2020-04-28T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16308"},"modified":"2020-04-28T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:35:00","slug":"koki-nakanos-new-album-pre-choreographed-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=16308","title":{"rendered":"Koki Nakano&#8217;s new album <em>Pre-Choreographed<\/em> out now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16336\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Koki-Nakano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Koki-Nakano.jpg 800w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Koki-Nakano-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Koki-Nakano-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week saw the release of <em>Pre-Choreographed<\/em>, the new album from from Japanese neoclassical pianist <a href=\"http:\/\/kokinakano.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Koki Nakano<\/a>, following his 2016&#8217;s debut <em>Lift<\/em>. As the title suggests, the binary relationship between music and dance is at the heart of <em>Pre-Choreographed<\/em>. \u201cWhen I compose, I keep images of bodies in a state of movement up in my head&#8221;, explained Nakano. &#8220;They\u2019re a great help to me when it comes to structuring each of my pieces, which develop as if they were responding to those movements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Along with the album, Nakano released a series of choreographed music videos, including a video accompanying the beautiful \u2018Near-Perfect Synchronisation\u2019. The video was directed by Benjamin Seroussi and choreographed by Amala Dianor, who stars in the video. Watch it below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xNacLFITkKs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Pre-Choreographed<\/em> is out now through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noformat.net\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Format!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw the release of Pre-Choreographed, the new album from from Japanese neoclassical pianist Koki Nakano, following his 2016&#8217;s debut Lift. As the title suggests, the binary relationship between music and dance is at the heart of Pre-Choreographed. \u201cWhen I compose, I keep images of bodies in a state of movement up in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2306],"class_list":["post-16308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-koki-nakano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16338,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions\/16338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}