Dance Video Index

In this database, you will find 373 dance videos which were collected from the 2023 to 2025 fiscal years under the auspices of the EPAD (Eternal Performing Arts Archives and Digital Theatre) .

Overview

• Title
• Performer(s)
• Year performed

• Tree

  Comissioned by the BAM Next Wave Festival, we created a gigantic tree with silk and cotton died by tea, dry leaves, and red paint. Our program notes stated, "a tree is wounded by its own memories". We were both completely naked. Set to natural night sounds. Presented with THIRST in their second season at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival (The BAM Next Wave Festival). 30 minutes. We performed this piece with THIRST at Spiral Hall in 1989, our first Tokyo performances after we left in 1976.

  

  Performer(s)

  Eiko & Koma

  Director/Choreographer

  Eiko & Koma

  Venue

  BAM Lepercq Space (NY)

  Year performed

  1988

• Tristan and Isolde

  1976 was an incredibly active year for Akira Kasai, who was awarded the 8th Dance Critic’s Association of Japan Award (1976) for this work, as well as 'Tsukuyomi Hiruko', 'For the Dance of the Holy Spirit as a Personal Ritual' and 'The Future of Matter'. In addition, he was selected by Miyabi Ichikawa for the Dancer's Award of Dance Work magazine for the work he achieved that year. The poet Minoru Yoshioka, who saw all four works, spoke of his experiences in 'The Messenger - A Poem of Drawings for Akira Kasai' published in the August 1977 issue of Shingeki.

  

  Performer(s)

  Tenshi-Kan

  Director/Choreographer

  Akira Kasai

  Venue

  Kudan-kaikan Hall

  Year performed

  1976

• TWO

  TWO is the story of two Japanese butoh dancers who chanced to meet in Berlin in 1987, and would soon start the first German-Japanese Butoh company “Tatoeba - Théâtre Danse Grotesque”. In the middle of the 90’s the group fell apart and the artists went their separate ways.
  After more than 20 years, Wolfgang A. Piontek brought them together again. He initiated and directed a project with the aim of evoking very private memories, as well as reflecting on the encounter of two cultures, the Japanese and the European.
  TWO is even more important in a society that only worships youth - as the two dancers are now advanced in age. Two women who are still dancing, with a lot more to tell about life and dance than the young ones.
  After all, dance is not about the speed, techniques and distortions, but about the crystallization of existential and spiritual depth and intensity through physical work.
  Piontek is especially interested in the wisdom of the body, how our experiences have been shaped and how we find our expression through the body. In the end, TWO is not a story at all, but a piece of dance theater, creating strong images representing a whole life. Partly grotesque, partly humorous, partly melancholic, partly crazy, and framed by impressive videos by Volker Schreiner which add an extra dimension to what is happening on stage.

  

  Performer(s)

  Yumiko Yoshioka

  Director/Choreographer

  Minako Seki, Yumiko Yoshioka

  Venue

  EISFABRIK

  Year performed

  2017

• unspelled

  order of language spilling
  spelled and un-spelled voice, spine, fingernails, shadow
  broken a part and puzzled landscape in body
  breathing the air between
  observer, past and I and spelling
  
  A solo dance performance confronting the body landscape, before its configurations of language or orientation. Deconstruction and Regeneration of being, territory of emotion, sexuality, and geometrical weight. Chorea, to oscillate Trash and Flesh, Rhythmically piling up dust of memories.
  Cut out moments of Silence.
  
  Premiered at the NY Butoh Festival in 2009.
  This piece was also performed at the Rome Butoh Festival, the Barcelona Butoh Festival, the Festival "Big in Japan" in Australia, the NyamaNyama Art Festival in Burkina Faso and more.
  Music: Collen, Sarah Peebles, Swinemünder Bridge, John Cage

  

  Performer(s)

  Company cokaseki

  Director/Choreographer

  Yuko Kaseki

  Venue

  DOCK11

  Year performed

  2012

• UTSUBO-BUNE

  Part of the 'Dance ga Mitai! 14: The Collapsing Body' project. A duet between a man and a woman, swaying between the shore of the living and the shore of the dead. Due to the Ebisu Torii's sudden passing in 2013, this became the final duo piece between Torii and Mutsuko Tanaka.

  

  Director/Choreographer

  Ebisu Torii

  Venue

  d-soko Theater

  Year performed

  2012

• VANISH

  Bodies vanish. Dance may vanish, yet still remain. A trilogy of creation confronting its origins, performed in the theatre where it was born.
  An endless search for the body, a necessary deviation to redefine dance.
  To the roots, and to the poetry that lies beyond.
  
  1. Traces Left Behind
  2. Vanish
  3. With the Landscape

  

  Performer(s)

  YUKIO SUZUKI Projects

  Director/Choreographer

  Yukio Suzuki

  Venue

  SESSION HOUSE

  Year performed

  2024

• Verwandlungsamt

  Anzu Furukawa moved to Berlin in 1991, and taught at the Braunschweig University of Art until 1996. Based on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", this work is a compilation of works Furukawa created for her students. The title "Verwandlungsamt" is derived from the original German title of Kafka's book "Die Verwandlung" and the word "Amt", meaning administrative office, management bureau or government office.

  

  Performer(s)

  Anzu Furukawa

  Director/Choreographer

  Anzu Furukawa

  Venue

  HBK Braunschweig

  Year performed

  1993

• A Vessel of Ruins

  Premiered in Tokyo in December 2010. This work presents a stark portrayal of the human condition, severed from the past and adrift in the vague wilderness of modernity. The dance, which evokes destruction and catastrophe, has also been interpreted as a foretelling of the earthquake and nuclear disaster that occurred a few months later. The piece has been performed across Europe, the US, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Mexico, and Indonesia, where its cynical worldview has left a profound impact.
  
  -Kudo Taketeru Solo Butoh Performance

  

  Performer(s)

  Taketeru Kudo

  Director/Choreographer

  Taketeru Kudo

  Venue

  Space Zatsuyu

  Year performed

  2010

• Vier Tänze [Four DANCES]

  Anzu Furukawa dances in the garden of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin after participating in the first European butoh festival 'Die Rebellion des Koerpers' in 1986. The text, narrated in German by Miriam Goldschmidt at the beginning of the video, is an extract from the 1985 lecture by Tatsumi Hijikata "Suijakutai no saishu" [Collection of the Emaciated Body]. The dances, which start in a pond, are named "MARY CAKEWALK", "FOR A.X." and "Last Tango in Berlin".
  
  German title: 4 Tänze in der Akademie der Künste Berlin von Anzu Furukawa

  

  Performer(s)

  Anzu Furukawa

  Director/Choreographer

  Anzu Furukawa

  Venue

  Berlin Academy of Arts

  Year performed

  1986

• Villi Vesi (The Wild Water)

  Commissioned work for the Helsinki City Theatre Dance Company, for whom Anzu Furukawa also choreographed "The Rite of Spring" in 1994 and "KEPPI" in 1995. This work is inspired by Furukawa's various experiences with water, such as seeing the different colours of the Amazon River flowing without mixing, the image of women in Africa collecting morning dew in jars, and the frozen sea off the coast of Helsinki.
  
  Act One: I. A Bored Man / II. Birth of a Heart / III. Listen to the sound of clapping with both hands, then what should be the sound of one hand? / IV. The Legend of Water
  Act Two: I. Tabula Rasa / II. Fratres for 12 cellos / III. Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten

  

  Performer(s)

  Anzu Furukawa

  Director/Choreographer

  Anzu Furukawa

  Venue

  Storehouse

  Year performed

  1998

• Wallow

  This work was originally designed with no sound and was 19 minutes long, but Eiko added the sound of sea waves. Videographed in November 1983 at Point Reyes National Seashore in California, a natural habitat for seals, in collaboration with Peter Yaple of Video/USA. Originally conceived as a video version of Eiko & Koma's 1977 stage work 'Fur Seal'. The movement was redesigned on location. Edited March 1984 in collaboration with Jeff Bush, ARC Videodance, New York. Made possible with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. 1984, Eiko & Koma. 19 minutes, silent color video.
  
  - Eiko & Koma's dance film series 'dance for camera'
  -The program notes for the stage piece in 1977 contained excerpts from Japanese poet Mitsuharu Kaneko's poem 'Fur Seal’.

  

  Performer(s)

  Eiko & Koma

  Director/Choreographer

  Eiko & Koma

  Venue

  Recorded at Point Reyes National Seashore

  Year performed

  1984

• Wandering moon [Caminho da lua 2007]

  Fugaku (art of the wind) works created from haiku by Fu Bu Myo In.
  
  The 1st “Wind’s garden Project,” conceived and directed by Toshi Tanaka.
  It was held on the sand stage of Casa do Vento (Wind House) in collaboration with Artesãoes do Corpo and Nire Art.
  It is a performance art that revolves around family, garden, community, or body and nature.
  
  Supported by the Program of Cultural Activities (Pac) of the State Department of Culture of São Paulo in 2007.
  
  - The "Wind’s garden Project", based at Casa do Vento (Wind’s House in Sao Paulo), began in 2001 with Toshi Tanaka & Ciça Ohno (Fu Bu Myo In) and has continued to this day.
  - "Fugaku" (art of the wind) is an original word that has been used as a generic term for performance art by Fu Bu Myo In since 2003.

  

  Performer(s)

  Toshi Tanaka

  Director/Choreographer

  Toshi Tanaka

  Venue

  Casa do Vento in São Paulo

  Year performed

  2007

• Wanderlust

  10 years after their first Australia-Japan dance collaboration in 1996, veteran choreographers Leigh Warren from Adelaide, Australia and UNO-MAN from Yamaguchi, Japan, now in their 50s, worked together once again after recovering from illness, which they coincidentally both succumbed to 3 years earlier. Based on Basho Matsuo's 'Oku no Hosomichi' (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) and re-envisioned as a 'journey of the moon and the sun, a hundred generations of travellers', this collaboration of dance, video, costume and music was created over residencies in both countries.
  
  - Japan-Australia Exchange 2006: Japan-Australia Dance Collaboration
  - KIRIN DANCE NETWORK
  - Performed at the Yamaguchi Centre for Arts and Media on Saturday 7 October (organised by the Yamaguchi City Cultural Promotion Foundation).
  

  

  Performer(s)

  An Creative Inc.

  Director/Choreographer

  Leigh Warren, UNO-MAN

  Venue

  Theatre Tram

  Year performed

  2006

• Water Falls from the Heavens

  A large white sphere sits in the centre of a circular stage, as people drink, cleanse themselves, and enjoy a banquet around it. But then comes a drought, and the people dance an offering, praying for rain. Water erupts from the top of the sphere, pouring down as merciful rain. However, the jubilant crowd then destroys the sphere that brought them such bounty.
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Performance Troupe TAIHEN

  Year performed

  1987

• Water Pilgrimage

  I want to go home with the swans
  I thought.
  Hoo, hoo, hoo
  Under the silver sky
  To the moors where the lingering voices returned
  Fluttering softly
  --To the moors
  To immerse my body,
  To return my body.
  
  Butoh video piece filmed in 2011 during the "Primitive Sense Art Festival - Prayer in a lake", which was held around Lake Kizaki in Omachi, Nagano Prefecture. Performed alongside a reed boat and other artworks that were part of the festival.

  

  Performer(s)

  Yuki Yuko

  Director/Choreographer

  Yuko Yuki

  Venue

  By Lake Kizaki

  Year performed

  2011

• Modan Dansu eno Michi (The way to Modern Dance)

  From 1936 to 1945, Masami Kuni spent time in Germany studying under Mary Wigman and Rudolf von Laban. Through narration and performance, he provides a clear historical overview of what modern dance is. Performances by members of the Kuni Institute of Creative Dance illustrate a wide range of forms, from prehistoric dance to the work of modern dancers around the world. Also presented are Kuni’s foundational training method “Dance Body Training,” which he studied in Germany and perfected in Japan, as well as two scenes, “The Last Category” and “Farewell Service,” from his masterpiece “The Yellow Time.”

  

  Performer(s)

  Kuni Institute of Creative Dance

  Director/Choreographer

  Masami Kuni

  Venue

  NHK Studio

  Year performed

  1963

• Wedding on the Field

  "To turn one's eyes to one's inner universe"... That is the starting point of butoh, and it is important to know where these eyes are. We have been lost ever since we grew two legs. I wish to be a one-legged picket standing in the wilderness. The secret staircase hidden in the depths of creation leads to our everlasting fields. I hasten in my preparations. The wedding begins. The wind blows.

  

  Performer(s)

  Yukio Waguri + Kozensha

  Director/Choreographer

  Yukio Waguri

  Venue

  Theater Kai

  Year performed

  1994

• WHAT’S NEXT – Namerikawa Goro, Butoh Dancer

  A recording of Namerikawa Goro's works as featured in the 'WHAT's NEXT' documentary programme on TV Asahi, which introduces notable up-and-coming artists. This episode included footage of 'Natura Morta', which was performed at the 1988 World Expo in Australia, a 1989 street performance at the Togenuki Jizo in Sugamo, Tokyo, and footage from his workshop 'The Body Art of Memory' held in Shinagawa, Tokyo, in October 1990.

  

  Performer(s)

  Goro Namerikawa/Austro Arts Association Co.,Ltd.

  Year performed

  1990

• When dance springs

  An ethnographic film that follows the life of butoh dancer Yuko Yuki, who has been performing in northern Japan for 50 years. The film is an ode to forests and people, to memory and all forms of life, documenting the moment when dance emerges from everyday life, the space where everything in the universe resides. It was screened at the Association of American Geographers and the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, among other venues, in 2021.
  
  - This project was funded by the Sumisei Woman Researcher Encouragement Prize.

  

  Performer(s)

  Yuki Yuko

  Director/Choreographer

  Yuko Yuki

  Year performed

  2020

• Whispers

  Second collaboration between hardcore contemporary dance company Kakuya Ohashi and Dancers and emerging alternative rock band Kukangendai. The work fuses live music with intense dance, exploring the theme of whispering. It portrays how bodies, weighed down by repressed whispers, can erupt in a violent clash as they collide with one another.
  
  -Kazuo Ohno Festival 2012

  

  Performer(s)

  Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Kakuya Ohashi

  Venue

  BankART Studio NYK

  Year performed

  2012

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