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

• Detainen Konchikisho (Damn! want out!)

  This work asks what independence means for people with disabilities, to find resources for the daily lives of people with disabilities in institutions where they are placed under the control of able-bodied people and live a dehumanised life - what is the key to unlocking the door to their freedom, to liberate people with disabilities?

  

  Performer(s)

  Performance Troupe TAIHEN

  Director/Choreographer

  Yoshikiyo Kontani, Masayuki Kashiwagi

  Venue

  Seibu-kodo Hall of the Kyoto University

  Year performed

  1986

• Dialogue

  Kandinsky's paintings expressed with the body. Original live music performed by chamber rock band ZYPRESSEN.
  
  - Yonei Sumie Dance Performance held at the Yokohama Art Wave '89 commemorating centennial history of Yokohama city as well as 130-years history since the opening of the Port of Yokohama.

  Performer(s)

  Yokohama Art Wave '89 - Yokohama International Theatre Art Festival

  Director/Choreographer

  Sumie Yonei

  Venue

  Osanbashi Yokohama

  Year performed

  1989

• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

  A Japan / Europe / Africa co-production -Theatre Dance Project 1991
  
  "In 1933 King Kong symbolized the male principle. Half a century later, he became the symbol of the "earth", "water" and "pride" in the entire world that is just about to succumb to the power of wealth. This is the time to send a tender hurrah to King Kong who is wounded by the impossibility of love. Or, is it already too late?"
  - from the Furukawa Anzu's programme notes
  
  Act 1: Mr. IN AND Mrs. OUT
  Act 2: NO WHERE MAN
  Act 3: LOVE, UNCOMFORTABLE TO WEAR
  Act 4: ORIENTAL THREE DOCTORS WHO BRIBED GOD
  Act 5: RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1.The moon-blown shell & The looking-glass shell / 2. Attack / 3. Seed / 4. Victim / 5. Orderly / 6. Ghost and Sentry / 7. In a dream of King Kong)
  
  - This piece was also performed at the Nagoya Civic Hall on 12 July 1991.

  

  Performer(s)

  Anzu Furukawa

  Director/Choreographer

  Anzu Furukawa

  Venue

  PARCO THEATER

  Year performed

  1991

• The Dog – Eleven Questions to the Answer ‘Dog’

  First piece from the 'Anzu’ology' series, a collection of works created from the voices of animals "awakened from the dark, chaotic memories of this world and the next", and also featured creatures such as insects and crocodiles. First performed in Freiburg (Germany) in 1987.
  
  - A young man's ultimate destination is, as expected,
  That cosy room with a fire burning brightly.
  A dog flies straight in.
  Suddenly, a charlatan at the window. -
  
  -Anzu’ology: Anzu's Altas of Animals I

  

  Performer(s)

  Anzu Furukawa

  Director/Choreographer

  Anzu Furukawa

  Venue

  Jean-Jean

  Year performed

  1987

• Double Bind – Yesterday -　

  In 1982, Kawani Hiroshi and Tanaka Toshi started a duo call Mouthpiece at Terpsichore in Nakano, Tokyo. They then began collaborations with Kato Kei, Furuya Toshihiko and others.
  They created a method using voice and improvisation inspired by Antonin Artaud, and put on live performances that experimented with the intersection between different genres. 'Double Bind' was effectively their final full performance as Mouthpiece.
  
  -Performed on 24 June as 'Yesterday' and on 25 'Tomorrow' as a part of STUDIO 200 LIVE PIECES.
  -The piglet that appeared on the 1st day died the next morning, and did not appear on the 2nd day.

  

  Performer(s)

  Studio 200

  Director/Choreographer

  Mouthpiece

  Venue

  Studio 200

  Year performed

  1983

• Double Bind – Tomorrow –

  "In 1982, Kawani Hiroshi and Tanaka Toshi started a duo call Mouthpiece at Terpsichore in Nakano, Tokyo. They then began collaborations with Kato Kei, Furuya Toshihiko and others.
  They created a method using voice and improvisation inspired by Antonin Artaud, and put on live performances that experimented with the intersection between different genres. 'Double Bind' was effectively their final full performance as Mouthpiece."
  
  - Performed on 24 June as 'Yesterday' and on 25 'Tomorrow' as a part of STUDIO 200 LIVE PIECES.
  - The piglet that appeared on the 1st day died the next morning, and did not appear on the 2nd day.

  

  Performer(s)

  Studio 200

  Director/Choreographer

  Mouthpiece

  Venue

  Studio 200

  Year performed

  1983

• Dream, After a Treat

  The last days of a king as a metaphor.
  A tyrannical emperor is on the road to downfall. Generals disobey, mistresses flee, the king is captured and sentenced to execution.
  Whoever captures the king becomes the next king. Until yesterday it was the king's clown.
  A king on his deathbed. The irony of life, it's 'a one-time dream'.
  A metaphor for the end of youth, retirement, the decline of the body, the rise and fall of prosperity, and the changing seasons of nature.
  If the next king was a clown yesterday, then previous kings were once clowns too.
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1987

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu,Ikuko Tsuda

  Venue

  Yomiuri Hall

  Year performed

  1987

• Dream: At the Moment it Starts to Disappear

  This work is a collage of fragments of various dreams, including scenes of China where Ishii Midori visited before the war. "At times the dream invites us to a dreamscape with smells, colours, light and heat intermingling, and at other times it becomes an imaginative journey in the blink of an eye."
  
  -This was the first work by Ishii Midori in many years after she lost her husband, the musician Orita Izumi , in 1972. He had been a great support for her and her dance company.
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Midori Ishii and Katsuko Orita Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Midori Ishii

  Venue

  Nissei Theatre

  Year performed

  1977

• Dreamtime: Where Do I Come From and Where Am I Going?

  'Dreamtime' is a mythical concept in Indigenous Australian culture, where the past, present, and future exist simultaneously. Starting with the question, "Where do I come from, and where am I going?" this performance was presented as an experimental live experience, featuring a collection of works that explore the layered flow of ancient, modern, and futuristic time. It delves into the various boundaries between Space/Earth, Human/Doll, and Life/Death.
  
  - 1993 Byakko-sha Live: A Collection of Works by Osuka Isamu / Commemoration of the Departure of the 2nd Five Continents World Butoh Caravan (1993: USA - South America, 1994: Taiwan) / In Memory of Aoyagi Michiko.
  - The video includes rehearsal footage.

  

  Performer(s)

  Byakko-sha

  Director/Choreographer

  Isamu Osuka

  Venue

  Chikiriya weaving factory

  Year performed

  1993

• Edo Mandala

  For this piece, Motofuji Akiko created a work which resonated with Hijikata Tatsumi's butoh as a mandala, with the use of stage art, lighting and music. She also endeavoured to incorporate the cultural sophistication of the Edo period (1603-1868) into her dance. Motofuji made use of the small space in Asbestos-kan to perform a piece of outstanding skill, and also showed the technical mastery of the other butoh dancers.

  

  Performer(s)

  Asbestos-kan

  Director/Choreographer

  Hironobu Oikawa

  Venue

  Asbestos-kan

  Year performed

  2003

• Egg in the Fire (reproduction)

  Cremation', part of a four-part butoh series named 'Funeral Series'. Original concept: 'Stanislav de Gala Soshaku Kōfujin' [Madame de Stanislav de Gala Mastication]. The flyer included an extract from 'The Tunnel' by Ernesto Sabato. "... Imagine a captain, ruthless and stern / keeping course towards his destination. / But / he doesn't know / why he's headed there."

  

  Performer(s)

  Daisuke Yoshimoto

  Director/Choreographer

  Daisuke Yoshimoto

  Venue

  Yuai-kaikan

  Year performed

  1984

• Ellora – The Dream of the Stone

  Hijikata Tatsumi said "all soft things will soon come under the control of hard things". What is the 'hard thing'? Is it iron, the bark of a log that withstands the wind, or the hardness of the spirit itself? "European dance is a crystal, a diamond. Butoh is a morning glory." What is butoh and what is the Japanese body? With themes of flowers, eros and crystals, the dancers paint an image of a sharp and hard butoh that depict the romanticism and eroticism of the body.
  
  - Waguri Yukio + Kozensha Butoh Performance

  

  Performer(s)

  Yukio Waguri + Kozensha

  Director/Choreographer

  Yukio Waguri

  Venue

  Park Tower Hall

  Year performed

  1997

• Eternal Smile

  Six-part solo butoh performance by Hideshima Minoru. The "Mr. O" in the sixth scene refers to the butoh dancer Ohno Kazuo, with whom Hideshima appeared in Ohno's 1976 film "Mr. O's Book of the Dead".
  
  I. Towards my Father
  II. I Thought to Make You Happy
  III. Candy Candy Candy
  IV. Penguins of the Antarctic
  V. Thoughts on Takada Eiko: Eternal Smile
  VI. "Mr. O and I"

  

  Performer(s)

  Minoru Hideshima

  Director/Choreographer

  Minoru Hideshima

  Venue

  THEATER X

  Year performed

  2023

• Event Fission

  Outdoor performance on the Hudson River Landfill, produced by Creative Time. Eiko & Koma danced with a huge white flag billowing on top of a sand dune as the audience watched from below. The white flag was used to symbolically attack the newly developed downtown buildings. On a lower level of the landfill, to which Eiko & Koma tumbled down, there were fires on four corners of the performing area. At the end of the performance of 50 minutes, Eiko & Koma were swallowed into a deep hole they had dug and hid, disappearing with a blast of sand.
  
  -Participated in the 'Art in the Beach'

  

  Performer(s)

  Eiko & Koma

  Director/Choreographer

  Eiko & Koma

  Venue

  Hudson River Landfil

  Year performed

  1980

• eX…it! ’19: 7th International dance eXchange and performance festival on butoh and contemporary dance

  Video documentation of eX...it! in 2019. The event had 8 instructors and 67 participants, who were divided into four groups for the first week-long workshop. For the second week, participants chose one of five teams with which to work. For the final two days, the participants were invited to give presentations to the general public.
  
  About the festival:
  At the beginning there was one question: Butoh - what is that?
  Yoshioka Yumiko and delta RA'i have constantly been asking this question since co-founding tatoeba-THÉÂTRE DANSE GROTESQUE, the first German-Japanese Butoh company, in 1987.
  This led to the idea of a European Butoh meeting, which was held first in 1995.
  It was called eX...it!, and as a result of the huge popularity among choreographers, participants, audience and media, a regular festival has emerged, which has since been a highlight at Schloss Broellin every 4 years.
  
  What was formerly a pure Butoh dance festival has today become an eXchange project for Butoh and contemporary dance. Nevertheless, the festival is still firmly anchored in Butoh, the Japanese expression dance.
  
  Our eXchange dance festival is specifically designed for professionally oriented dancers of all disciplines who wish to work intensively with Butoh dance.
  We try strictly to distinguish from therapeutic Butoh styles.

  

  Performer(s)

  Yumiko Yoshioka

  Director/Choreographer

  delta RA'i, Yumiko Yoshioka

  Venue

  Schloss Bröllin

  Year performed

  2019

• The Fable of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

  No one is perfectly good. Everyone has good and evil within.
  Jekyll and Hyde succumb to the sweet temptation of evil and commit a sin. Small sins at first, then on to bigger sins.
  Jekyll and Hyde's final act is suicide by hanging. The body shaking like a swaying ball is like the hearts of two people wavering between good and evil.
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1981
  - Awarded the ACA National Arts Festival 1981 Excellence Award

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

  Venue

  Yomiuri Hall

  Year performed

  1981

• Datenshi’ [Fallen Angel]

  The first work by Izumi Katsushi on his return to Japan after travelling to Europe on the invitation of Maurice Béjart. In this piece he established his style of performing in suspenders and pointe shoes. Izumi left many paintings of dreams he had, and this work is an overflowing collage of images.
  
  -Tess Dance Series No. 10. The World of Izumi Katsushi.

  

  Performer(s)

  Midori Ishii and Katsuko Orita Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Katsushi Izumi

  Venue

  Sanbyakunin Theatre

  Year performed

  1979

• Festa do Interior

  Inspired by traditional harvest festivals that take place throughout Brazil in June. The performance brings together people of all ages, from young individuals to older participants who do not typically engage in dance lessons. It is cherished by Brazilians wherever it is performed.
  Premiered in 1991 for Ballet Yuba's second tour of Japan. The work has also been performed at Yuba Farm and throughout Brazil.
  The video was filmed in 2011.

  

  Performer(s)

  Ballet Yuba

  Director/Choreographer

  Akiko Ohara

  Venue

  Teatro Yuba

  Year performed

  2011

• Feverish Days

  As though going round and round
  Forever round inside a hole
  A great circle hither and thither.
  From which a white bird flies away.
  Rather than try to fill the hole
  Just leave it as it is.
  But beware the hole's gentle darkness
  Lest in it we drown.
  
  Pour poison on that fever.
  
  -28th Terpsichore Project Newcomer Series
  -35th Dance Critics Society of Japan: Newcomer Award

  

  Performer(s)

  Terpsichore

  Director/Choreographer

  Mayako Okura

  Venue

  Terpsichore

  Year performed

  2003

• f/F Parasite

  Masterpiece by the Hachinohe-based theatre company Molecular Theatre. The avant-garde approach shocked the Japanese theatre world in the 1980s when it won rave reviews at theatre festivals in Germany, Belgium and other countries. Based on a collection of letters exchanged between Franz Kafka with his fiancée Felice, it depicts Kafka's psychograms - the madness of his writing and its endless proliferation, the parasitic voice and thought in words, courtship and isolation - in a dense, anxiety-filled space, dramatising them with overwhelming tension and physical expression.
  
  - Participated in the Münster Theater Festival
  - Short version
  - From 'Letters to Felice' by Franz Kafka, translated by Shiroyama Yoshihiko (published by Shinchosha)

  

  Performer(s)

  Molecular Theatre

  Director/Choreographer

  Shigeyuki Toshima

  Venue

  Theater im Pumpenhaus

  Year performed

  1987

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