Dance Archive Project (DAP) 2015
The key functions of a dance archive are twofold: to collect and organize materials related to dance performance, and to ensure the establishment of a foundation stone for future performances. How a given performance employs choreography, costumes, music and space in a particular fashion provides insight as to what subsequent performances might resemble; the archives task is to re-assemble the work. It might be argued that given the dearth of physical traces of individual movements, there is an inseparable link between the archive materials and the performance itself; their very existence ensures an updated re-construction of the original performance. The Dance Archive Project 2015 deliberately sets out to further inter-connect these two spheres: dance archives and dance performance. By publically presenting archive materials in the form of a completed work, we believe that both the function and the potential of the archives will be brought into sharper relief.
Date Tuesday, 10th February 2015 – Sunday, 15th February 2015
Program
| Tuesday, February 10th. 19:30 |
Searching for the Japanese Modern Dance Roots
Toshiko Oka and Masaru Kakio The Operating Theater Takao Kawaguchi About Kazuo Ohno(short version) Yoshito Ohno Tango |
| Wednesday, February 11th. 18:00 |
Searching for the Japanese Modern Dance Roots
Toshiko Oka and Masaru Kakio The Operating Theater Takao Kawaguchi About Kazuo Ohno (short version) Yoshito Ohno Tango |
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Thursday, February 12th. 19:30 |
Takao Kawaguchi About Kazuo Ohno (full version) |
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Friday, February 13th. 20:30 |
Takao Kawaguchi About Kazuo Ohno (full version) |
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Saturday, February 14th. 16:00 |
project Oh!YAMA Odorubaka |
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Sunday, February 15th. 16:00 |
project Oh!YAMA Odorubaka |
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DAP2015 facebook page| Venue: | BankART Studio NYK 3rd floor (3-9 Kaigan-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama) |
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| Admission fee: | 3,000 yen for each performance／Two Performances Pass : 5,000 yen （Allows one to attend two performances on his／ her choice. Only the name-bearer on the pass will be able to use it.）／ TPAM Registration Benefit：4,500yen for the Two Performances Pass |
| Inquiries: | Canta Co.ltd TEL 03-3450-6507 E-mail ticket@canta.co.jp During Feb.10 thru 15 Dial 090-9321-4494 |
| Reservation: | Please reserve via the web form by clicking the "Reserve" button below. We take the reservations also by telephone and fax : TEL 03-3450-6507 FAX 03-3450-6507. Payment needs to be made only in cash at the door. |
| Presented by | Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio |
| Produced by | Canta Co.ltd |
| Cooperated by | BankART1929 Dance and Media Japan |
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Supported by Japan Arts Council 
A TPAM Showcase program |
11:00-19:00 Tuesday, 10th February 2015 – Sunday, 15th February 2015
Archive Materials Exhibition
Searching for the Japanese Modern Dance Roots
The exhibition will feature video screenings of Baku Ishii's choreography Grotesque (1926), Kazuo Ohno's historic solo performance Admiring La Argentina (1977) and materials related to Takaya Eguchi’s Operating Theater. In addition, the programme includes screenings of exclusive interview footage with the Buyo dancer Kahoru Ishii, the Butoh dancer Mitsuyo Uesugi as well as the stage manager Tomomasa Akagi.
Dates and Time :11:00-19:00 Tuesday, 10th February 2015 – Sunday, 15th February 2015
※closed at 18:00 on Sunday,15th
Venue : BankART Studio NYK 3rd floor 3A Gallery
Admission free.
Tuesday, February 10th. 19:30 ／ Wednesday, February 11th. 18:00
Searching for the Japanese Modern Dance Roots
Toshiko Oka and Masaru Kakio The Operating Theater
Directed and choreographed by Toshiko Oka
Performed by Toshiko Oka and Masaru Kakio
Drum by Yoshito Ohno
Set design by Yoichiro Yoshikawa
Shujutsu-shitsu [The Operation Theatre] was created and premièred in Germany in 1933 by Takaya Eguchi and his wife Misako Miya, both of whom were at that time studying Neue Tanz under Mary Wigman in Dresden. Upon their return to Japan in 1934, they presented this innovative piece to Japanese audience amongst whom the deeply impressed 27 year-old Kazuo Ohno. All that now remains of the piece is a single photo, a few written observations by Eguchi and a short review. While faithfully reconstructing the piece is a nigh impossible task, we can still explore the essence of what Eguchi and Miya learned from Wigman and by inference reproduce the first ever modern dance piece performed in front of Japanese audiences.
Vertigo (2013)
Takao Kawaguchi About Kazuo Ohno (short version)
Reliving the Butoh Diva's Masterpieces
Directed and performed by Takao Kawaguchi
Dramaturg: Naoto Iina
Even if Takao Kawaguchi never had seen Kazuo Ohno perform in person,
he deliberately sets out to imitate his dance thanks to a close inspection of Ohno's movements,
costumes and music in the archive footage. The question, however, arises as to what he can achieve by “
imitating” the “shape of the soul” through his faithful reproduction of
Ohno's dances by dint of the most orthodox means imaginable? Do we see Ohno through the medium of Kawaguchi,
or do catch a glimpse of Kawaguchi through his interpretation of Ohno? Thanks to his use of the archive footage,
he presented this piece in 2013, and through repeated performances approached this problem by addressing the fundamental theory of art.
Takao Kawaguchi shows About Kazuo Ohno in a new short remake lasting for approx. 50 minutes (Feb. 10 & 11) as well as in the full,
original edition first presented at the Kazuo Ohno Festival 2013, which lasts for about 100 minutes (Feb 12 & 13).
Yoshito Ohno Tango
Baku Ishii, Takaya Eguchi, Misako Miya and others repeatedly performed Tango conceived by dancers at the advent of the modern dance era. Miya’s performance in Germany reputedly met with great success. While not strictly unconnected to the form of continental tango that was all the rage in the swinging 1920s, their version didn't employ similar steps of the so-called classical tango; rather, it embodied the notion of the “individual tango” whereby one can freely imagine the content. At his first times recital in 1949 Kazuo Ohno was also to perform a piece entitled Tango. What lies at the core of this shared DNA between tango and modern dance that has come into its own?
Flower and Bird -- A Letter to Future Self (2013)
Toshiko Oka
A native of Kobe, Oka graduated from the Dance Department at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. She currently directs the dance group Ensemble Sonne. Once a year she creates a new work primarily based upon how her contemporaries confront modern life through their shared physicality. Her improvised performances often involve collaborations with musicians, visual artists and athletes.
Masaru Kakio
From 2004 to the present day, he has made guest appearances in Oka Toshiko’s Ensemble Sonne. Between 2006 and 2009, he was active with contact Gonzo, an improvisational performance group based in Osaka. In 2014, he performed in Nora Chippomura Like my Father's Self-Portrait, as well as in Sea Water which featured among others the director Yukichi Matsumoto and the Japanese-Vietnamese painter Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba.
Takao Kawaguchi
As a dancer and performer, he was active in ATA DANCE and Dumb Type during ‘90s. Since 2003, he shifted to perform all genre solo performance with his skill in theater, dance and art. He collaborated with various artists, namely Takayuki Fujimoto from Dumb Type and Tsuyoshi Shirai from AbsT in True and Node / The Old Man of the Desert. His recent works include the on-going "talk about myself" performance series "a perfect life" (since 2008), TABLEMIND (2011), and The Ailing Dance Mistress - two solo dances inspired by Tatsumi Hijikata's texts of Yameru Maihime with Tomomi Tanabe.(2012).
Yoshito Ohno
Born in Tokyo in 1938, Yoshito Ohno stage debut was in the role of the young boy in Kinjiki [Forbidden Colours] directed by Tatsumi Hijikata in 1959. Throughout the 1960s he was active in Butoh performances until he retired in 1969. His comeback was in 1985 when he appeared alongside Kazuo Ohno in The Dead Sea; thereafter he continued to direct all of Ohno senior's stage performances. In recent years he has collaborated with the Tanztheater Wuppertal dancers’ Julia Anne Stanzak and Eddie Martinez in The Promising Morning (2010), co-performed with Antony and the Johnsons in Antony & Ohnos (2010), as well creating a solo work Flowers and Birds (2013).
Thursday, February 12th. 19:30 ／ Friday, February 13th. 20:30 Late night show
Takao Kawaguchi About Kazuo Ohno (full version)
Reliving the Butoh Diva's Masterpieces
Directed and performed by Takao Kawaguchi
Dramaturg: Naoto Iina
Even if Takao Kawaguchi never had seen Kazuo Ohno perform in person, he deliberately sets out to imitate his dance
thanks to a close inspection of Ohno's movements, costumes and music in the archive footage. The question, however, arises as to
what he can achieve by “imitating” the “shape of the soul” through his faithful reproduction of Ohno's dances
by dint of the most orthodox means imaginable? Do we see Ohno through the medium of Kawaguchi, or do catch a glimpse of Kawaguchi
through his interpretation of Ohno? Thanks to his use of the archive footage, he presented this piece in 2013, and through repeated
performances approached this problem by addressing the fundamental theory of art.
Takao Kawaguchi shows About Kazuo Ohno in a new short remake lasting for approx. 50 minutes (Feb. 10 & 11) as well as in the full,
original edition first presented at the Kazuo Ohno Festival 2013, which lasts for about 100 minutes (Feb 12 & 13).
About Kazuo Ohno (2013)
Takao Kawaguchi
As a dancer and performer, he was active in ATA DANCE and Dumb Type during ‘90s. Since 2003, he shifted to perform all genre solo performance with his skill in theater, dance and art. He collaborated with various artists, namely Takayuki Fujimoto from Dumb Type and Tsuyoshi Shirai from AbsT in True and Node / The Old Man of the Desert. His recent works include the on-going "talk about myself" performance series "a perfect life" (since 2008), TABLEMIND (2011), and The Ailing Dance Mistress - two solo dances inspired by Tatsumi Hijikata's texts of Yameru Maihime with Tomomi Tanabe.(2012).
Saturday, February 14th. 16:00 ／ Sunday, February 15th. 16:00
project OH!YAMA Odorubaka
Directed and choreographed by Yuri Furuie
Performed by Haruka Kajimoto, Satsuko Hasegawa and Yuri Furuie
We wonder Baku Ishii meant as he once described himself as “Odorubaka”. A 9.5mm film of Ishii's Grotesque dating from 1926 has been preserved. At that time Ishii created this piece for his 16-year old student Choi Seung-hee and two other female dancers. More so than the choreography itself, apparently it was the revealing costumes that attracted the men’s eyes as they enabled them to see the dancers’ thighs. Inspired by the original footage, Project OH!YAMA’s reconstruction conveys Ishii’s “head over heels spirit”, embodying the energy of the impending dawn of a crossover between Japanese and European dance.
Odorubaka (2013)
project Oh!YAMA
Based in Gokokuji in Tokyo, the members of this all-female dance company, under the direction of Yuri Furuie, are all alumni of Tokyo’s Ochanomizu University. They were awarded the Jury Prize of Dance Collection R in Yokohama in 2009 and the Choreographer of the Future Prize in Toyota Choreography Awards in 2010. In 2009 the company was invited to L'EXPERIENCE JAPONAISE in Nîmes, France. In 2012 they choreographed and performed in SIS company’s The Glass Menagerie directed by Keishi Nagatsuka.