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

• The Hanged Man

  A 1976 dance film made in memory of sculptor Wim de Haan (1913-1967), who had a great interest in Eastern spirituality.
  The story begins at the Magere Brug [Skinny Bridge] in Amsterdam. Ishii Mitsutaka walks with what appears to be a wooden cross while his friends follow behind. Next there is dance in performed in a prison-like room, reminding us of de Haan's time as a Japanese prisoner of war, and Ishii performs the dance of a young girl in de Haan's studio. The piece ends with Ishii, dressed in a kimono, playing the role of a hanged man.

  

  Performer(s)

  Mitsutaka Ishii

  Director/Choreographer

  Meino Zeillemaker

  Venue

  Amsterdam

  Year performed

  1976

• HEN BAI

  Hen Bai is an ritual performed in Onmyōdō [commonly known in the English as Ying Yang] for leaving, or calming down. It later entered Shintoism and Esoteric Buddhism, and even the world of Yūsoku Kojitsu. This is where Uno Man got his inspiration. It begins with a body supported by a rope, which appears to be a symbol for anti-gravity, followed by a scene in which two men have a tube connecting their mouths to their buttocks. In the second half we see a ritual of throwing salt by a performer in a white costume. This work further develops the Onmyō world from the final dance of his previous work 'Hot Key'. Performed only once at the MAMU Festival.

  

  Performer(s)

  Mamu Festival

  Director/Choreographer

  UNO-MAN

  Venue

  Junges Theater Göttingen

  Year performed

  1994

• Here

  My life experiences, my encounters,
  All traces of life are kept alive.
  And the future is spun from here.
  In these ever-changing times
  I'd like to dive in with my whole body
  To the possibilities of here and now
  And live life to the fullest.
  
  Also performed at:
  2021/7/18（Sun）Seiji Tanaka Dance Studio (the 3rd "Butoh Counterattack" series in Nara)
  2021/12/16（Thu）SPACE LFAN ("KYOTO DANCING BLADE #3" in Kyoto)
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Mayako Okura

  Director/Choreographer

  Mayako Okura

  Venue

  Terpsichore

  Year performed

  2021

• HIDAMARI – Sunday in Life –

  Directed by Furukawa Anzu, who was invited from Japan to direct the piece in Germany. Co-choreographed with the members of tatoeba.
  In freezing cold Berlin, sunlight attracts us as an oasis in a desert. Not just humans, but beasts, insects and flowers transform as they unwind in the light and relax in the darkness.
  In this work, the lives of living creatures are woven into a tapestry of shadows in the interplay of light and darkness.
  
  - Premiered in April 1989 at Künstlerhaus Bethanian in Berlin.

  

  Performer(s)

  tatoeba

  Director/Choreographer

  Anzu Furukawa, tatoeba

  Year performed

  1989

• Hijikata memorial “Handsome Blue Sky”

  Commissioned by JADE Festival, this inaugural piece by Ko & Edge Co. was created as an homage to butoh founder Hijikata Tatsumi, borrowing the title "Handsome Blue Sky" from a collection of writings by Hijikata.
  
  -Petit JADE International Dance festival

  

  Performer(s)

  Kaibunsha

  Director/Choreographer

  Ko Murobushi

  Venue

  Park Tower Hall

  Year performed

  2003

• Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh

  TV programme in memory of Hijikata Tatsumi, who passed away in January 1986. Dance critic Ichikawa Miyabi talks about Hijikata's art and character, and looks ahead to the future of butoh after his death. The show features comments by Hosoe Eikoh, Ikeda Masuo, Ohno Yoshito and others who worked closely with Hijikata, excerpts from performances by Dairakudakan and Ohno Kazuo at "Butoh Festival '85" which was held the year before, and footage from a solo butoh piece by Uno Man.

  

  Performer(s)

  NHK

  Year performed

  1986

• HISOKU

  KYOTO Butoh-kan opened in July 2016 in a converted traditional storehouse, as a dedicated butoh theatre with an audience capacity of 8. From its opening day "HISOKU" was performed every Thursday, with audiences from 69 countries around the world visiting to experience live butoh up close. Performances were suspended from April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at which point the piece had been performed 378 times. The video was recorded on 9 May 2021, without an audience.
  
  -Ima Tenko, KYOTO Butoh-kan Performance

  

  Performer(s)

  Butoh Company KIRAZA

  Director/Choreographer

  Tenko Ima

  Venue

  KYOTO Butoh-kan

  Year performed

  2016

• HIZUME TO KANZASHI

  Heaven and Earth / Fire and Water / Water and Oil / Life and Death / Tofu and Hammer / Right hand and Left hand / Stone and Red / Man and Woman / Mortar and Pestle / Shit and Piss / Head and Arse / Moon and Turtle / Light and Dark / Silence and Sound / Laozi and Confucius / Older brother and Younger brother / Goldfish bowl and Pacific Ocean / Red and Black / Kitsune and Tanuki / Flower and Dragon / Inside and Outside / Floor and Ceiling / Snake and Mouse / Mirror and Doll / Dot and Line / Wheat and Soldier / Mud and Sand / Dry and Wet / Hands and Feet / Elbows and Knees / Fingertips and Toes / Drain and Fountain / Rai Sanyo and Kan Chazan / Rushes and Black cattle / Miko and Prayer / Buffalo and Princess / Hoof and Hairpin [Hizume to Kanzashi]
  (from the flyer)
  
  - Zokucho no Tabi Butoh performance - V
  - This piece was also performed in Tokyo and Nagoya.

  

  Performer(s)

  TORII HALL

  Director/Choreographer

  Masaru Kaita

  Venue

  TORII HALL

  Year performed

  1994

• Hole of the Day

  The "Social Distance Amphitheater" presented by the Moonlight Mobile Theatre during the 2020 pandemic drew attention from around the world for its groundbreaking viewing method of peering through holes in the 30 door-shaped panels to see the performance taking place inside. In this work, the performance is an improvisation by two dancers and two performers. A feast of sound and body sharpened to the extreme.

  

  Performer(s)

  Moonlight Mobile Theater

  Director/Choreographer

  Nobuyoshi Asai, Yura Sugiura

  Venue

  Rinnai former parts center parking lot

  Year performed

  2021

• Katsuko Orita – Dance Alone “Home”

  The carefree skips of a young girl. In contract to these simple, dashing movements, the performer slowly puts on layers of clothing, demonstrating the passage of time. The girl becomes an overdressed and restricted adult, finally clad in a 'dotera' [padded jacket]. The depicted world is humorous, where adults do their best to move while dressed in this way. Orita Katsuko uses Ishii Midori's Eurhythmics for Dancers to create a work that conveys freedom and restriction using basic movements.
  
  Orita Katsuko often used artwork and costumes by Maeda Tetsuhiko to set the scene in her pieces, and this was no exception. This is the first piece in which Maeda's 'dotera' [padded jacket] was used, which Orita would go on to use often.

  

  Performer(s)

  Midori Ishii and Katsuko Orita Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Katsuko Orita

  Venue

  ABC Hall

  Year performed

  1978

• Hommage a Hideyuki Yano

  Based in Paris from 1973, Hideyuki Yano had a major influence on French Nouvelle Danse with a body of work that combined dance, theatre and music. This collection contains excerpts from Yano's Work in Progress (Paris, 1981), 'Epilogue for Salome' (Paris, 1984), 'The Hawk's Well' (Paris, 1985) and 'Salome, Fable of Desire' (Besançon, France, 1985). Elsa Wolliaston and Karine Saporta make an appearance.

  

  Performer(s)

  Hideyuki Yano

  Director/Choreographer

  Hideyuki Yano

  Year performed

  1981

• Hong Kong Night Club Volvo: ART BODIC

  A special live performance of "Miracle Report" by Byakko-sha’s ART BODIC at Club Volvo, an upscale, Japanese-style nightclub in Hong Kong.
  ART BODIC was Byakko-sha's "takeout" performance group, operating alongside their main productions. It "delivered" Body and Art to a wide range of events, from weddings and birthday parties to concerts and TV commercials. The group aimed to create a "more thrilling performance spectacle" that transcended the stereotypical boundaries of butoh.

  

  Performer(s)

  Byakko-sha

  Director/Choreographer

  Isamu Osuka

  Venue

  Volvo (Hong Kong)

  Year performed

  1990

• Hope

  Pandora is tempted to open a box that should not be opened. The disasters and hopes that leap out take place in the modern world of entertainment.
  People suffer from misfortune, illness, lust, despair, jealousy and other calamities.
  But even those who have hit rock bottom always have hope at the end of the day.
  In overcoming calamity, people find hope.
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1986

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

  Venue

  Yomiuri Hall

  Year performed

  1986

• Hoppo Butoh-ha Butoh Chronicles 1975-1989

  A collection of video excerpts from key Hoppo Butoh-ha performances, including 'Shiokubi' (1975), 'Gekka-no Une' (1982), 'Takazashiki' (1984) and 'Ezo-men' (1989). The recording of 'Shiokubi' is from the first day of the premiere, with Bishop Yamada performing in black paint. On the second day, under Hijikata's instruction, he performed in white paint but no footage of this remains. The 'Ezo-men' section of the film is titled 'My Heart Beat'.

  

  Performer(s)

  Hoppo Butoh-ha

  Director/Choreographer

  Bishop Yamada

  Year performed

  1975

• Hot Key

  This piece is based on the Ten Bulls, a series of 10 paintings of depicting the relationship between cows and herdsmen - a metaphor for Zen practice according to a Zen Koan from the Northern Song dynasty in China. On stage are four hoofless cows created by Uno Man. What has he gained after his hopeless struggle? Only then does he reach absolute nothingness. This masterpiece, which tackles the difficult text of Zen Buddhism head-on, has been performed in Japan, and received great acclaim in the North, Central and South American continents, as well as France.
  
  - Participated in the TOKYO DANCE SCENERY

  

  Performer(s)

  UNO-MAN

  Director/Choreographer

  Man Uno

  Venue

  TOKYO FM Hall

  Year performed

  1992

• Houge 9

  1. Must be silent. 1. Must be improvised. 1. One hour, one dance. 1. Dance in a circle of light with a diameter of 2 metres. 1. Must be surrounded by the audience. I dance under the above conditions. What is truly necessary for my dance? I began this dance with just one body, but what can I convey in this space with little light with no music?'
  
  - Participated in The Second OSAKA DANCE EXPERIENCE
  - Iwashita Toru Solo Dance Performance
  

  

  Performer(s)

  TORII HALL

  Director/Choreographer

  Toru Iwashita

  Venue

  TORII HALL

  Year performed

  1996

• The Hunchback of Aomori

  The original "The Hunchback of Aomori" was performed in 1967 as the inaugural performance of Tenjo Sajiki, an experimental theatre troupe founded by Terayama Shuji. The piece depicts the love-hate relationship between mother and child, a theme often seen in Terayama's early works, and draws from the personal conflict between Terayama and his mother.
  B-Kikan was a butoh-theatre troupe led by butoh dancer Temmetsu, active from 2016 to 2023, with the aim of fusing theatre and butoh. This work is their second performance, staged in 2017.
  
  -2021 Japan Directors Association Young Director Competition Excellence Award (Temmetsu)

  

  Performer(s)

  TEMMETSU

  Director/Choreographer

  TEMMETSU

  Venue

  Zamza Asagaya

  Year performed

  2017

• Husk

  Having collaborated with videographers for previous media works, Eiko & Koma decided to work alone in creating Husk. Koma adopted the role of cameraman to film Eiko's solo piece. Eiko & Koma used the playback function of the video camera to create choreography for body and camera as one long take. This media dance is presented with no editing done in post-production. Sound design by Eiko. Filmed in May 1987 at the Kampo Cultural Center, New York, NY. ©1987, Eiko & Koma.
  
  - Eiko & Koma's dance film series 'dance for camera'

  

  Performer(s)

  Eiko & Koma

  Director/Choreographer

  Eiko

  Venue

  Recorded at the Kampo Cultural Center

  Year performed

  1987

• Ice Cream Torch / Ceremony

  "Ice Cream Torch / Ceremony" is a new piece created as part of Kobayashi Yuki's "Life of Athletics" project, which he had been working on since 2014 in conjunction with a photography trilogy: "Ice Cream Torch / Flag", "Ice Cream Torch / Relay" and "Ice Cream Torch / Flame". This piece makes symbolic use of a wedding dress flowing down stairs connecting the ground level to the underground, and a song from the 1981 film "Chariots of Fire". Tackling the authoritative framework of sports competitions and contradictions in commercialising amateur athletes, Kobayashi considers the true meaning of “sports for peace” by questioning the sexism of misogynistic remarks by Japanese politicians.
  
  '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

  Yuki Kobayashi

  Venue

  Filmed at Former Hakubutsukan Dobutsuen Station [Museum Zoo Station]

  Year performed

  2021

• In Praise of Shadows – Beyond the Distance between Light and Darkness (Looking Between Things)

  Tanizaki Junichiro's essay “In Praise of Shadows”, published in 1933, is still translated and read around the world today as a book exploring the Japanese sense of beauty. In this work, Asai Nobuyoshi performs a solo performance exploring theme "a new body to be discovered from the darkness" by illuminating the beauty of shadows latent in the body and spirit of a Butoh dancer with the flickering flame of a candle.

  

  Performer(s)

  Nobuyuki Asai

  Director/Choreographer

  Nobuyoshi Asai

  Venue

  Dance House Kogane4422

  Year performed

  2019

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