Yuichiro NAGATSU

He is a researcher, educator, and coordinator in socially arts management and cultural policy. His research has involved fieldwork and action research on artistic practice with people with disabilities, mainly in the fields of theatre and dance. Through this process, he has considered the ways of collaboration and support for people with diverse backgrounds in the arts. In practice, he has worked as a workshop coordinator and facilitator for theatre and dance, and he has been involved in the production such as working as a dramaturg for a theatre performance featuring care workers from the Philippines. He is currently a member of the Social Art Lab in the Faculty of Design at Kyushu University, where he coordinates theatrical workshops mainly for social service providers. Since 2016, he has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Design, Kyushu University. He graduated at the top of his class in 2008 with a degree in arts management from the Department of Music Environment and Creativity in the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts, and completed his doctorate at the Graduate School of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013 with a dissertation that involved fieldwork into the performing arts activities of people with physical disabilities.