"Thus far the biggest problem with braindance has been its expressive limitations - the scrolls are too simplistic. Laughter means comedy, horror means fear, and romance means love and passion. It's the same as movies that rely on genre tropes. There is more to capturing emotions than that, which is what my research team in Tokyo is currently working toward achieving. I want my productions to convey real, raw human emotion. For example, the feeling when you combine happiness with melancholy or being calm with an underlying sense of anxiety. These complex, realistic feelings and emotions are what I aspire to recreate… woven into much better stories, of course" - Oshima