Dance Video Index

In this database, you will find 200 dance videos which were collected in the 2023 fiscal year under the auspices of the EPAD (Eternal Performing Arts Archives and Digital Theatre) .

Overview

• Title
• Performer(s)
• Year performed

• Paradise Underground

  Popular contemporary dancer Itoh Kim holds a secret party in this dream-like performance. An explosively energetic 49 minutes, this piece is full of highlights, with humorous and showy underground imagery that is typically Itoh. An absurd performance by the 11 frenzied Tokyo Reiwa Underground Dancers, co-starring Itoh Kim and Umezu Kazutoki.
  
  - Created as a video piece. The venue indicates where it was filmed, while the performance period refers to the dates the work was available for online viewing, from its release date until the conclusion of the Tokyo Real Underground festival (1 April - 15 August 2021).
  -Takao Kawaguchi Selection: Un Certain Regard
  -Tokyo Real Underground (Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13)

  

  Performer(s)

  NPO Dance Archive Network

  Director/Choreographer

  Kim Ito

  Venue

  Filmed at Former Hakubutsukan Dobutsuen Station [Museum Zoo Station]

  Year performed

  2021

• LA PARTIDA

  Chilean artist Víctor Jara was loved around the world for his songs about people's joys, sorrows and their right to live. With a strong will he resisted violence and sang of courage and hope, but was massacred in a coup d'état in 1973. The people's will to live and the universal soul. What was his message? In this work, the artists tackled this question with a live performance of Jara's famous song 'La Partida', together with a group of disabled members of the general public who crawled out of the community, expressing it with their bodies.

  

  Performer(s)

  Performance Troupe TAIHEN

  Director/Choreographer

  Manri Kim

  Venue

  Aster Plaza : Midium Hall

  Year performed

  1999

• The Peacock Boat

  Based in Kyoto, the butoh company Kiraza was founded in 2000 by former Byakkosha member Ima Tenko, with the aim of reviving the power of tamafuri [reinvigoration of the soul through swinging] found in the origins of performing arts through the modern avant-garde form of butoh. From 2007 to 2016, the company performed annually at a theatre in a former hanamachi [entertainment district]. Their third work, "Kujaku-bune" [The Peacock Boat] is based on Kujaku Myōō, a peacock god that dispels evil. Held in a traditional Japanese theatre and with live nagauta music, the performances attracted large audiences.
  
  -Gojo The Power of Sisters series vol.3

  

  Performer(s)

  Butoh Company KIRAZA

  Director/Choreographer

  Tenko Ima

  Venue

  Gojo-rakuen Kaburenjo

  Year performed

  2010

• Penitence

  Performed at Butoh Festival '85 in 1985. Words by Goi Teru in the program read as follows:
  
  Flesh dances to / cries of the dreaming taiko drums / the soul dances not / yet in the sunlight and shadows / the body sways in intervals / the shining heat of the present day / and the wrecked body / rises with awakened desires
  From the lost dream / the liberated body / becomes a lonely dance exposed to the wind
  
  The title 'Penitence' conveys in it the idea of returning the body to the soil, letting it rot, and digging it up again.

  

  Performer(s)

  Nippon Cultural Centre

  Director/Choreographer

  Teru Goi

  Venue

  Yurakucho Asahi Hall

  Year performed

  1985

• Petite Hanako – The Actress Who Captured Rodin’s Heart

  A docu-drama with English narration based on the extraordinary life of Ota Hisa, also known as Hanako, a Japanese actress who lived from the Meiji to the Showa era and spent much of her career in Europe. She was the only Japanese person to model for Auguste Rodin, and was also the inspiration for Mori Ogai's novel "Hanako". In this drama, Hanako is played by Furukawa Anzu.
  
  - Broadcasted on 10 November 1994

  

  Performer(s)

  TV Asahi Corporation

  Year performed

  1994

• Pieta ’97

  I am dancing 'Pieta' again at DANCE EXPERIENCE, as I did last year, but the image of Pieta has in fact been with me for more than ten years now, and it is still deepening and transforming, still inviting me and motivating me to dance. "I know for sure that you will not look back. But I also know that when I approach death the one who will embrace me is you." (from the flyer)
  
  - Participated in the 3rd OSAKA DANCE EXPERIENCE
  - Yurabe Masami Butoh Performance

  

  Performer(s)

  TORII HALL

  Director/Choreographer

  Masami Yurabe

  Venue

  TORII HALL

  Year performed

  1997

• Pikka Don

  A performance of a solo work previously presented at The Kitchen (New York), designed for video cameras.

  

  Performer(s)

  Yoshiko Chuma

  Director/Choreographer

  Yoshiko Chum

  Year performed

  1982

• Playing with the Universe

  Second meeting of Kazuo Ohno and the theatre company Taihen, following their meeting in May 1994. Part 1 is a performance of 'Reimai' by Taihen (directed by Kim Manri), Part 2 is a butoh dance by Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno, and Part 3 is a collaboration between Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno and the Taihen company.

  

  Performer(s)

  Performance Troupe TAIHEN

  Director/Choreographer

  Kim Manri, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno

  Venue

  AI Hall (Itami City Theater Hall)

  Year performed

  1996

• Point, Distant View and Cantata; Wave; Fiume

  'Wave' was the first of Katoh's performances, and has a simple structure, expanding and returning to single point with surges of energy.
  'Point, Distant View and Cantata' features black spots on white costumes, inspired by Calder's paintings, with chanting and bell players sitting on both sides of the stage. It is a minimalist dance, performed with Asian footwork.
  'Fiume' means 'river' in Italian. It is an eternal stream that flows from a single point to the sea, swallowing everything in its path. Movement, sound and voice merge to weave in the workings of life.
  
  - Presented at the KATOH MIYAKO DANCE SPACE 1982
  -'Wave' was premiered in 1980.
  -'Point, Distant View and Cantata' was awarded Grand Prize for the 1982 Japanese Creative Choreography Competition
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Miyako Katoh Dance Space

  Director/Choreographer

  Miyako Katoh

  Venue

  Sogetsu Hall

  Year performed

  1982

• Pollen Revolution

  "Pollen Revolution", the solo masterpiece by butoh dancer Kasai Akira, premiered at Theater Tram in 2001 and has since garnered widespread acclaim internationally. Here the work is performed by his son, Kasai Mitsutake. With the goal of passing this legacy on to the next generation of dancers, the direction and choreography have been refined with each performance, evolving and maturing over time.
  
  Participating Festivals
  4-5 Jan 2018: Contemporary Dance Festival: Japan + East Asia (Japan Society, New York)
  March 2020: Melbourne Performance
  2022: 4th HOTPOT East Asia Dance Platform
  
  -JaDaFo Dance Award 2017

  

  Performer(s)

  Tenshi-Kan

  Director/Choreographer

  Akira Kasai

  Venue

  Theatre Tram

  Year performed

  2017

• Quiet House

  A room strewn with rubble. People buried in the rubble, motionless. As if time is rewinding, they regain their bodies.
  People who treat life like pebbles. Struggling. Giving up. History repeats itself. The story moves forward, traveling back and forth through time.
  And so, I perform a ritual to mourn my body.
  
  - BACC Performative Art Festival #8 (Bangkok, Thailand) / Project “Bombie Protocol” (Vientiane, Laos)

  

  Performer(s)

  Yuko Kawamoto

  Director/Choreographer

  Yuko Kawamoto, Teerawat 'Ka-ge' Mulvilai

  Venue

  THEATER X

  Year performed

  2019

• RAPSODY

  News of Kisaragi Koharu's death reached Hitsujiya Shirotama in December 2000 while she was on a residency in New York. Subsequently, a request was made to revive Koharu's 'DOLL', and, 20 years after its first performance, 'DOLL' was revived by Yubiwa Hotel under the name 'RAPSODY'. The girls who disappeared in the sea in 1983, reappeared on a roof-top tennis court in 2003. Koharu's 'DOLL' dealt with the suicide of high school girls, and this work attempts to embrace Koharu's themes of the death of young women and raise it to new heights as 'feelings of life'.

  

  Performer(s)

  YUBIWA Hotel

  Director/Choreographer

  Shirotama Hitsujiya

  Venue

  Rosa Kaikan's roof tennis court

  Year performed

  2003

• Rashamen Tempura, Part 3

  Work by the Fukuoka-based theatre company Shanghai Noodle Factory, featuring Uesugi Mitsuyo who choreographed and performed her own solo parts. The performance was presented as part of the ASIA TRI programme, an Asian focussed portion of the Kazuo Ohno Festival. Uesugi even appeared in a wheelchair, evoking an image of her teacher, Ohno Kazuo.
  
  -Asia Tri
  -Kazuo Ohno Festival 2012

  

  Performer(s)

  Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Mitsuyo Uesugi, Azuma Shinkai

  Venue

  BankART Studio NYK

  Year performed

  2012

• REACHING FOR INSPIRATION: Butoh and Performance

  Through Hijikata, to beyond Hijikata. Through myself, to beyond myself. The place of butoh, the presence of butoh, resides here within my body. - Harada Nobuo (from the flyer)
  
  - Motofuji Akiko's first performance in Kyushu
  - Related event: "Butoh no Genba '98 Second Project NON-STOP-BROWING" at Kego Park (24 October 1998)
  
  -GENERATIVE BUTOH 98 in KYUSHU
  -HIJIKATA TATSUMI '98

  

  Performer(s)

  Butoh Seiryukai

  Director/Choreographer

  Nobuo Harada

  Venue

  NTT Yume Tenjin Hall

  Year performed

  1998

• REBIS – Flowers are fragrant in the incense burner

  Performed by Yamada Setsuko and Kamiryo Kunishi, on a set of log turrets and stones set in mud which resemble an ancient ritual site. Kamiryo's animalistic movements intersect Yamada's sacrificial butoh. This work by two former students of Tenshikan (run by Kasai Akira), is imbued with the connections made in Tenshikan between dancing and mysticism. After performing in Tokyo, this work was invited to the Festival d'été de Châteauvallon in France.
  
  - Yamada Setsuko and Kamiryo Kunishi Butoh Performance
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Setsuko Yamada

  Director/Choreographer

  Setsuko Yamada, Kunishi Kamiryo

  Venue

  Institut français de Tokyo

  Year performed

  1984

• Recorded prior to Europe (1971), and in Düsseldorf (1979)

  A digitised compilation of 8mm film reels of Ishii Mitsutaka, one which appears to have been taken in 1971 in Chigasaki, and another taken in 1979 at a gallery and on the streets on Düsseldorf. Ishii was the first butoh dancer to travel to Europe in 1971, performing in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany.

  Performer(s)

  Mitsutaka Ishii

  Director/Choreographer

  Mitsutaka Ishii

  Year performed

  1969

• Renge Village

  Light movements are gradually overlaid with Indian music and skillful use of props. This work is a perfect example of Orita Katsuko's own characteristics in movement.
  
  -Presented at the Modern Dance May Festival.
  -In 1985, the work was presented to the Korean Dance Association and Korean dancers.

  

  Performer(s)

  Midori Ishii and Katsuko Orita Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Katsuko Orita

  Venue

  Toyoko Theater

  Year performed

  1984

• Rent a Body- The Last Night of Ballhaus

  A site-specific performance held through the whole of the Ballhaus Theater in Berlin just before the fall of the Wall, where tensions were rising on a daily basis.
  Furukawa Anzu was invited as director and choreographer to realise Delta RA'i's idea of transforming the entire venue into a dance space. With 46 dancers chosen through audition, performances went ahead after a month of rehearsals. The shows were packed out every day, and it became a legendary piece that became a talking point among Berlin artists for a while.
  
  -Butoh dance/theatre project
  -51 performers in total

  

  Performer(s)

  tatoeba

  Director/Choreographer

  Anzu Furukawa

  Venue

  Ballhouse Naunynstrasse (Berlin)

  Year performed

  1989

• Resonance: A Return from Chaos

  Namerikawa Goro Dance Art Recital. Namerikawa creates an impressive stage environment by incorporating the audience as part of the set. In this solo performance, the audience was given short iron bars named "tetsubiko" [iron vibrations] upon entering the venue, which they strike in unison midway through the performance. The stage floor is covered with metal plates, and Namerikawa’s body interacts and resonates with various stage props, including a motorised top that emits noise as it spins, as well as silver springs and steel plates that are suspended from above.
  
  The flyer reads: "Resonance is the path that leads from chaos to the creation of all life and matter in this world..."

  

  Performer(s)

  Goro Namerikawa/Austro Arts Association Co.,Ltd.

  Director/Choreographer

  Goro Namerikawa

  Venue

  Tochigi Education Center Main Hall

  Year performed

  2003

• Return to the Village

  My ballet instructor in New York once crumpled up a piece of paper and tossed it in the air saying 'this is ballet'. The falling of nature itself. We used to dance in front of the Opera House fountain on the way home from lessons. The flautist was a naturalist, who lived day to day with no job or home. But if his life were natural, it is too heavy. Can we marvel at beauty and let it soften our hearts without understanding it? I want to dance a dance without having to try too hard. Is that natural, or unnatural?
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1976 Excellence Award
  - Awarded the ACA National Arts Festival 1976
  - A full-length video of the rehearsal. The performance took place on 8 November 1976 at the Yomiuri Hall.

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

  Year performed

  1976

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