Sentences with word «butoh»

Hiroh Kikai's work A performer of butoh dance, from the Persona / Asakusa Portrait series, has been acquired by the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, MA.

Sindy Butz's artistic practice includes the study of butoh dance, Aerial Movement and other contemporary dance techniques.

by controluce — teatro d'ombre The gallery presents «haiku», a mesmerizing performance by renowned shadow theatre company CONTROLUCE (Turin) in conjunction with Japanese butoh dance group SHIZUKU.

Richard Hawkins shows two paintings and a collage series (in the museum's Mildred & Herbert Lee Galleries), which were inspired by the work of Tatsumi Hijikata, the Japanese performer and choreographer who created butoh performance.

Koichi and Hiroko Tamano are considered the parents of Butoh in the U.S..

Nemec began working with Butoh in 1999 and has studied with Akira Kasai as well as experimental choreography Deborah Hay.

Hijikata was a «dancer» and the founder of contemporary Japanese dance, or physical movement rather, known as Butoh.

The artists have also conceived a performance entitled If You Lived Here You Would Be Home Now, which will be performed by Japanese / American butoh dancer Azumi Oe on the day of the opening.

She has held the position of principal dancer at the New York Butoh Dance Company, Vangeline Theater, since 2010.

The speech was both eloquent and funny, and included a minute (but only a minute) of silence for the passing of Louise Bourgeois and Butoh master Kazuo Ohno, whose name Hegarty had written on his forehead.

A poetic performance piece exploring duality, SCRIPTURA VITAE stars famed Japanese actress Miho Nikaido, best known for her role in the Japanese cult classic film «Tokyo Decadence», alongside Butoh performer and dancer Maki Shinagawa.

Following the screening is a talk with Big Dance Theater's Annie - B Parson and Paul Lazar, artist Aki Sasamoto, Butoh scholar Bruce Baird, and Ugly Duckling Presse editor Yelena Gluzman, who will discuss the influence of Mr. Hijikata's work on artists and choreographers today.

And indeed: The evening included a restaging of Trajal Harrell's 2015 performance The Return of La Argentina, which hinges on movements drawn from Butoh and vogueing.

Director: Sheri Brown (TK Resident & Artistic Director of DAIPAN) Containing, creating, and integrating a web of high vibration, approximately 50 + butoh dancers and musicians will process and occupy various stations in, through and around the TK Building to create an altered connected space charged with inspiration from transformational Native American Seahawk stories.

Hijikata situated butoh as an outlaw, literary, and surrealist dance form, drawing on themes of death, criminality, abjection, and corporeality.

Born in Niigata, Japan, Kota Yamazaki was first introduced to butoh under the teaching of Akira Kasai at the age of 18, and graduated from Bunka Fashion College with BA in Fashion Design.

Richard Hawkins's studies of bathhouse butoh — are they naughty and nice, leather and lace, rice and beans?

She has created over 1000 sculptures worldwide and has also designed and choreographed dances deriving from her sculptures which are performed by a Japanese Butoh dance group and Polish dancers.

Screening and Talk: «Ugly Duckling Presse: Costume en Face» at The Kitchen In conjunction with Big Dance Theater's new production «Big Dance: Short Form,» the Kitchen presents a screening of a rare film of Butoh dance's founding father Tatsumi Hijikata's 1976 production of Costume en Face.

Roger McDonald, writing in the exhibition catalogue, compares Barmen's sculptures to Japanese Butoh dancing which consists of series of slow, meditative movements inspired by T'ai Chi and Qi Gong.

He had years of experience in ballet, Butoh, Commedia del» arte, mask -LSB-...]

He had years of experience in ballet, Butoh, Commedia del» arte, mask performance, and a host of other talents.

For example, his work Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church integrates post-modern dance techniques and theories with «voguing,» a stylized dance emerging from Black American drag culture originating in the Harlem ballrooms of the»80s; along with the Japanese dance form «butoh,» a surrealist, abject art that emerged as a refutation of conservative ideals in postwar Japan.

Mina Nishimura, from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh — a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities — and improvisational dance through Kota Yamazaki while completing the International Program at Merce Cunningham Studio.

Saturday, May 13, 4:00 - 6:00 PM A queer and trans artist of color, Zavé Martohardjono incorporates mindfulness, Butoh, and releasing techniques into their choreographic practice.

Examples of recent workshops include Chromatic Constructions, The Woven Self, Meta - making, and Butoh and the Expressive Figure.

Her parallel performing arts practice in dance involves the study of butoh and other contemporary dance techniques.

Kikuo Saito, known for his abstract, color - field paintings, Butoh - influenced set designs and wordless performance - plays, died on February 15, at age 76, in New York City, where he had lived for 50 years.

Misevičiūtė's practice combines physical theatre, dance, stand - up, Butoh, perverted academic language and sculptural work.

This new work stems partially from Harrell's research into the life and work of Japanese choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata (1928 — 1986), and his development of butoh, a dance form he created in part to resist the conservatism he saw permeating the choreography of postwar Japan.

Performance Butoh masters: Koichi and Hiroko Tamano Oct 7 • 2 pm • Selected galleries • Free Butoh emerged in Japan in the aftermath of World War II as a dance based on natural movement of «common folk,» but was also influenced by western art movements such as Surrealism, and made its way to the U.S. — echoing Abstract Expressionism's American roots that found inspiration from Asia.

's practice combines physical theatre, dance, stand - up, Butoh, perverted academic language and sculptural work.

Artist in conversation with Helga Christoffersen (Assistant Curator, the New Museum), with performances by Vangeline (Butoh dance, Founder of Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute) and Connor Holloway (Corps de Ballet dancer, American Ballet Theatre).

Her practice combines physical theatre, dance, stand - up, Butoh, perverted academic language and sculptural work.

Artist Statement As a dance artist who carries the spirit of butoh, I believe my works are deeply rooted in Japanese tradition, while at the same time explores a new way to internalize varying cultures and states.

Kwak was the recipient of the Neely Macomber Travel Prize from USC (2014), for the study of butoh and its founder Hijikata Tatsumi in Tokyo, Japan, and is currently organizing an exhibition based on their travel and research at the ONE Archives in 2017.

The scrapbooks montage Western art imagery, revealing the unseemly inspiration of abstract painting on Hijikata's conception of Butoh, a surreal and literary mode of performance developed during the 1960s.

Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist challenges the usual accounts that Butoh was formed as a direct response to Japan's post-World War Two trauma, Hawkins's new work instead reveals the surprising effect of painterly abstraction on Butoh.

Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist finds a dialogue between the scale of gesture and visceral expression found in Jean Dubuffet's (1901 - 1985) The Tree of Fluids 1950 or Willem de Kooning's (1904 - 1997) The Visit 1966 - 7 and the surreal figuration in Francis Bacon's (1909 - 1992) Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh IV 1957, Hans Bellmer's (1902 - 1975) The Doll 1936 and Graham Sutherland's (1903 - 1980) Standing Forms II 1952 with the «corrupted» bodily gesture of Butoh.

Later works drawing on this same idea include Eikoh Hosoe's Kamataichi, a collaboration with the choreographer and founder of the Butoh movement Tatsumi Hijikata.