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

• Katsuko Orita – Dance Alone “Final Note in C Minor”

  A solo piece choreographed by Izumi Katsushi for Orita Katsuko. The work beautifully draws out Orita's ability to express deep emotions lyrically and subjectively.

  

  Performer(s)

  Midori Ishii and Katsuko Orita Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Katsushi Izumi

  Venue

  ABC Hall

  Year performed

  1978

• Fish for Ellen; Night on the grass; What’s wrong

  Inaugural performance by Fluid hug-hug Co. led by Yamazaki Kota, featuring three works choreographed, directed and composed by Yamazaki from 1996-2002, all performed by new dancers.

  

  Performer(s)

  Kaibunsha

  Director/Choreographer

  Kota Yamazaki

  Venue

  Spheremex

  Year performed

  2002

• Five Car Pile-Up

  Based on a work performed by 100 performers at St. Marks Church in New York City in 1983, the performance was condensed and various angles, slow motion, montage, and soundscapes were used to encompass a space far beyond what we can see. A new visual choreography was created.

  

  Performer(s)

  Yoshiko Chuma

  Director/Choreographer

  Yoshiko Chuma

  Year performed

  1983

• Floating Garden

  "It is said that the medieval dream of building a floating garden is half realised through extravagance.
  In the five rooms of the Floating Garden are five dreams, and Izumi opens each door one by one, inviting the audience into rooms of fantasy."
  
  -Izumi Katsushi Dance Opera.

  

  Performer(s)

  Midori Ishii and Katsuko Orita Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Katsushi Izumi

  Venue

  Sogetsu Hall

  Year performed

  1985

• Frankenstein’s Fable

  The story of an imperfect life form born from a doctor's obsession with life.
  Unable to accept the death of a loved one. People who wish for a happy future with their loved ones.
  A man is removed from the circle of reincarnation, from life to death, and from death to life, and is broken.
  The doctor was exposed to the mystery of life, and wanted to know everything.
  A horribly tragic fable.
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1980

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

  Venue

  Yomiuri Hall

  Year performed

  1980

• From Darkness to Light

  There are two types of death dances: Danses des Morts, rooted in religion, and Danses Macabres, where the living also have a little fun with death. There is a legacy of 'death-loving cultures' all over the world. Population booms always follow mass deaths caused by famine and war. I began to realise that life is valued only through death after experiencing the death of several of my own loved ones, and that the performing arts are about identifying pain.
  My dance has recently become less an art for the gods or the Absolute, and more an art for human beings and their fragility in fleeting life.
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1979
  - Awarded the ACA National Arts Festival 1979 Excellence Award

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

  Venue

  Yomiuri Hall

  Year performed

  1979

• Yamazaki Kota’s ‘From Picnic’ and Mori Miyako’s ‘Solo & Soul’

  'From Picnic' is a fleeting dance in which the last man dances ""for someone he cannot see"". It is a development of Yamazaki Kota's 'Picnic', which was presented at Spiral Hall in Tokyo in July 1997.
  Mori Mikayo performed 'Solo & Soul'. In this piece, she connected with what emerges on the other side of her own intentions, from the space between her thoughts and the energy of feelings that occur when different thoughts and images pass through her body to the outside.
  
  - Participated in the 4th OSAKA DANCE EXPERIENCE Dancce Battle - Before Dance / After Dance - Yamazaki Kota x Mori Miyako

  

  Performer(s)

  TORII HALL

  Director/Choreographer

  Kota Yamazaki, Mikayo Mori

  Venue

  TORII HALL

  Year performed

  1998

• Fruit of Knowledge

  Adam and Eve, encouraged by the serpent, eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge and incur the wrath of God. Forced out of paradise, mankind build a world using knowledge, creating a pleasant urban life.
  Humans change and evolve, but they also produce abnormal people. A girl is assaulted, becomes mentally ill and her parents suffer. A group of doctors represent the duality of both Adam and Eve, and the serpent.
  During her convalescence, the girl steps on a snake and gets better from the shock.
  With the help of the serpent, she returns to the world of knowledge... The myth is reborn in the present day. Human joy is shown to be entangled with nature.
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1985

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

  Venue

  Yomiuri Hall

  Year performed

  1985

• Fukushima Mon Amour

  Endo relocated to Europe in the 1970s to study at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and has since performed extensively in both Germany and Japan. This work reflects his response to the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It explores the devastating impact of the natural disaster, the man-made catastrophe of the nuclear accident, and the collective sorrow of the Japanese people, while also capturing their enduring hope for recovery.
  The piece premiered at Theatrewerkstatt in Hannover in October 2012.

  

  Performer(s)

  Tadashi Endo (Butoh Centre MAMU)

  Director/Choreographer

  Tadashi Endo

  Venue

  Columbia College Chicago

  Year performed

  2016

• Furi

  Japanese dance can be divided into three main groups: 'mai', 'furi' and 'odori' [all translate to 'dance' in English]. The title of this piece 'Furi' [also meaning 'choreography'] was named after a desire to open up the dynamism of this type of dance to its original meaning. The recorded music was composed for this performance by Hattori Koichi, conducted by Tezuka Yukinori, and performed by Orchestra Sonore, while the artwork was created by the at the time up-and-coming artist James Kawada. Ten female and twelve male dancers were performed the piece, dressed in simple leotards and tights.
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1971
  - Awarded the ACA National Arts Festival 1971 Excellence Award
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

  Venue

  Asahi Seimei Hall

  Year performed

  1971

• Galactic Rebellion ’91 – I Just Wanted to Kiss the Moon –

  Premiered in June 1989 at the AI Hall in Itami. In this work, the theatre company Taihen - a theatre company for people with disabilities - breaks away from their previous style and creates a new expression developed solely through the movements of the performers' bodies, without fancy costumes or dialogue. Miyajima Ichiro's calligraphy and leotards reveal the movements of the performers clearly and, enhanced with lighting and the use of paper and cloth, a dynamic performance is created. The theme is the liberation of one's own mind and oneness with the universe.

  

  Performer(s)

  Performance Troupe TAIHEN

  Director/Choreographer

  Manri Kim

  Venue

  Kitazawa Town Hall

  Year performed

  1991

• A Genius is Fool

  The second piece from the 'THE MUSIC POTLATCH' series, which began in March 1985 and was held at Shibuya Jean-Jean. A different genre of musician was invited to perform alongside Furukawa Anzu's dance in each piece of the series. The first featured Yamashita Yosuke on piano, the third featured Abe Keiko on the marimba, and the final piece featured Kineya Yasosuke on the shamisen.
  
  Act 1: Mendelssohn in Hiroshima
  Act 2: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
  Act 3: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  

  Performer(s)

  Anzu Furukawa

  Director/Choreographer

  Tetsurou Tamura, Anzu Furukawa

  Venue

  Jean-Jean

  Year performed

  1985

• Ghosts and Cherries I

  The first in a series of butoh performances titled "The Theater of the Body", which focuses on 'nikutai' [the body as flesh/meat]. The series began in June 2008, and was held on the 29th of every month. The show was structured in two parts: the first part was a free, experimental performance that aimed to "expand the scope of the Butoh genre", and the second part was a solo performance by Harada Nobuo. The three-year series concluded on 29 May 2011.
  
  "The term 'nikutai' is no longer commonly used in discussions of the body, but the word 'shintai' [another word for 'body'] is too clean. I don't want to forget that the nuances embedded in 'nikutai', such as shyness and perverseness, are at the very origin of butoh. I want to draw a line between this and contemporary dance, or other forms that fall within the framework of civil society."
  - Harada Nobuo, from an interview by Yada Tamiya, Yomiuri Shimbun evening edition, June 2008

  

  Performer(s)

  Butoh Seiryukai

  Director/Choreographer

  Nobuo Harada

  Venue

  SPACE TERRA

  Year performed

  2008

• Golden Powder Show 1993

  The piece was invited to be performed at the Kunsthaus Tacheles (1990-2012) in former East Berlin, which since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was occupied by avant-garde artists and had became the centre of the Berlin counterculture. In the 1970s and 1980s, when there was very little funding for dance, many butoh dancers earned their living and performance costs through cabaret dancing. The Golden Powder Show can be considered a highlight of cabaret dance.

  Performer(s)

  tatoeba

  Venue

  Kunsthaus Tacheles

  Year performed

  1993

• GOYA – La Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf)

  A "silent opera" inspired by the human tragedy and dark humour of Goya's "Disasters of War" prints. Set to Reich's "Different Trains," which addresses the persecution of Jews under Hitler's regime, the dancers remain tied to their chairs, symbolising that their fate cannot be changed. In creating this piece, Furukawa pointed out that such works are necessary to draw attention to these ongoing tragedies.
  
  Act 1: Morning (music: Steve Reich "Different Trains"; I. America - Before the War / II. Europe - During the War)
  Act 2: Noon (music: Steve Reich "Different Trains"; III. After the War)
  Act 3: Evening (music: G. Rossini (1792-1868) Highlights from "Il Barviere di Sivigia" [The Barber of Seville])
  Text used in the performance: Franz Kafka

  

  Performer(s)

  Anzu Furukawa

  Director/Choreographer

  Anzu Furukawa

  Venue

  loplop (Berlin)

  Year performed

  1999

• Grain

  Created while living in Catskills upstate New York, the piece was premiered in Kampo Cultural Center in 1983 and was performed again as part of Dance Theater Workshop's 1984 winter season, for which Eiko & Koma received the inaugural Bessie New York Performance award.
  
  -Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award)
  -Premiere: January 1983 at the Kampo Cultural Center

  

  Performer(s)

  Eiko & Koma

  Director/Choreographer

  Eiko & Koma

  Venue

  American Dance Theater Workshop

  Year performed

  1984

• Green Fever

  Premiered at the Institut français du Japon - Tokyo. Wrapped in a black costume, Yamada Setsuko transforms her introspective world into movement. Three performers repeat gentle movements like children in a kagura performance. Korean critic Kim Tae-won commented: "I will never forget the shock I felt when I saw Yamada Setsuko for the first time. Her transparent will and precision of technique are the ideals of expressive solo dance". This work, which consciously abstracts reality, clarifies Yamada's unique dance movement and method.
  
  - Participated in the Chang Mu Chum Festival
  - Yamada Setsuko Butoh Performance

  

  Performer(s)

  Setsuko Yamada

  Director/Choreographer

  Setsuko Yamada

  Venue

  Chang-Mu Dance Theater

  Year performed

  1987

• Guerrilla Kuyo-Kuyo ga onnen (Guerrilla Kuyo-Kuyo is Here with Grudge)

  Memorial performance for Guerrilla Kuyo-Kuyo, an actor who died tragically at the age of 30 due to administrative mismanagement.

  

  Performer(s)

  Performance Troupe TAIHEN

  Director/Choreographer

  Manri Kim

  Venue

  Suita City Hall

  Year performed

  1985

• Half-Demon (Nama-nari)

  A solo performance on 'nudity, immobility and verticality', 'Half-Demon (Nama-nari)' was first performed in 1985 and became a major turning point for Iwana Masaki. Wanting to bring out his inner femininity, he performed for the first time in a European dress. That same year, Iwana began calling his own works 'butoh'. Nama-nari is the Noh mask of a woman with slight protruding horns, before she becomes a hannya [female demon].

  

  Performer(s)

  TORII HALL

  Director/Choreographer

  Masaki Iwana

  Venue

  TORII HALL

  Year performed

  1999

• HANA-flower-

  “HANA” - flower
  Open your life to the universe.
  Embracing the life of the tribute and the memory of the soul of billion years, the innocence
  from darkness to light and death to life is constantly repeated and continues to open.
  The beginning of the universe is love.
  The flower stares at the stars.
  
  - ONKO Theatre Eocounters' Festival, SOMMERWERFTInt'l Theater Festival, Hybrid Butoh Vienna Art Festival, Paris Butoh Festival
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Atsushi Takenouchi

  Director/Choreographer

  Atsushi Takenouchi

  Venue

  The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute

  Year performed

  2023

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