Like many others in Japan’s rising performing-artist generation, 34-year-old Ney Hasegawa says he first felt the lure of the stage when he went to see shōgekijō (small-scale youth theater) plays while he was in high school. After that, he started taking an interest in dance, too, and when he formed his company Fujiyamaannette in 2003, his clear aim was to blur the boundaries by creating unique and highly visual dance-theater programs.