UNFIX JAPAN -a festival of Performance & Ecology (June 11-13, 2017) Tokyo, Japan
A collaboration between Unfix Festival, Dance Medium and the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive (Keio University)
This event is the first Japanese edition of UNFIX, a festival begun in Scotland and the United States that looks at Ecological crisis and renewal addressed through our bodies and physical sense of living. UNFIX conceives individual human lives as a microcosm of the whole, and puts it to you: climate change and ecological transformation are happening inside your body, RIGHT NOW. You can find out more about UNFIX in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlr4_A7Sqwc Butoh Dance is an excellent method for realizing the ecological nature of our being directly in the body, and we’re excited to collaborate with Dance Medium and the Hijikata Archive to explore the similarities, differences and future possibilities of Butoh in both East and West in helping humans meet the challenges of Ecological Crisis and runaway capitalism in the 21st Century. |
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UNFIX JAPAN -A Festival Of Performance & Ecology
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UNFIX JAPAN TEAM
Nagaoka Yuri
Born in Tokyo. Artistic Director of Dance Medium. Trained in Ballet, modern dance, and subsequently he world of Butoh. She performs and delivers workshops nationally and internationally. In 2011, she received an award from Dance Critics Society of Japan for "Kaeru -coming Home".
Seisaku
Studied under Hijikata Tatsumi since 1984. The late Masakatsu Gunji named him "Seisaku." He belonged to Hakutohboh till 1996. He joined Dance Medium in 2004, and started directing, choreographing and teaching with Yuri Nagaoka. Recipient of an award from Dance Critics Society of Japan.
Paul Michael Henry (Founder of UNFIX, Glasgow)
Paul Michael Henry is a performance artist whose starting points are dance, music, writing and ritual; his artistic approach blossoms out of punk rock and Butoh. He is also the Artistic Director of UNFIX Festival and teaches dance workshops called The Dreaming Body. His themes are political, social & spiritual, dealing with neglect of the body, destruction of the environment and atrophy of the soul in consumerist society. Visit his website: www.paulmichaelhenry.com
Yokko (New York City) is the founder/producing artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh, an actress, Butoh & Movement artist, Solo performer/writer, Theatre educator and certified Yoga instructor from Nagoya, Japan. She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including “Best One-Woman Show” for her Butoh Medea (United Solo 2014 at Theatre Row). Butoh Medea was invited to present at United Solo Europe, Warsaw, Poland (Teatr Syrena, Warsaw, Poland), then toured to Edinburgh Festival fringe (Paradise Green), and is nominated for Asian Arts Award. Her work is deeply rooted Japanese culture, and she collaborates with local artists to blend different cultures to create new work.
Bob Lyness (Washington) comes from a theater background, but has primarily studied and performed butoh for the past twelve years, studying with Yoshito Ohno, Diego Pinon, Vangeline, Joan Laage, and others, and really considers Yoshito Ohno as his main mentor and inspiration.
Born in Tokyo. Artistic Director of Dance Medium. Trained in Ballet, modern dance, and subsequently he world of Butoh. She performs and delivers workshops nationally and internationally. In 2011, she received an award from Dance Critics Society of Japan for "Kaeru -coming Home".
Seisaku
Studied under Hijikata Tatsumi since 1984. The late Masakatsu Gunji named him "Seisaku." He belonged to Hakutohboh till 1996. He joined Dance Medium in 2004, and started directing, choreographing and teaching with Yuri Nagaoka. Recipient of an award from Dance Critics Society of Japan.
Paul Michael Henry (Founder of UNFIX, Glasgow)
Paul Michael Henry is a performance artist whose starting points are dance, music, writing and ritual; his artistic approach blossoms out of punk rock and Butoh. He is also the Artistic Director of UNFIX Festival and teaches dance workshops called The Dreaming Body. His themes are political, social & spiritual, dealing with neglect of the body, destruction of the environment and atrophy of the soul in consumerist society. Visit his website: www.paulmichaelhenry.com
Yokko (New York City) is the founder/producing artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh, an actress, Butoh & Movement artist, Solo performer/writer, Theatre educator and certified Yoga instructor from Nagoya, Japan. She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including “Best One-Woman Show” for her Butoh Medea (United Solo 2014 at Theatre Row). Butoh Medea was invited to present at United Solo Europe, Warsaw, Poland (Teatr Syrena, Warsaw, Poland), then toured to Edinburgh Festival fringe (Paradise Green), and is nominated for Asian Arts Award. Her work is deeply rooted Japanese culture, and she collaborates with local artists to blend different cultures to create new work.
Bob Lyness (Washington) comes from a theater background, but has primarily studied and performed butoh for the past twelve years, studying with Yoshito Ohno, Diego Pinon, Vangeline, Joan Laage, and others, and really considers Yoshito Ohno as his main mentor and inspiration.