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

• ITTEKI -one drop-

  "In our days, if this country Japan were a puddle, I myself might be a single drop of water falling into it. Ripples appear, interfere each other, create various forms, and disappear to the infinite.
  In my lifetime, I feel I have encountered four impressive drops of water; a child, a woman, a man, and an old person. Four people, or just a single one? Or a mysterious image that might embody them all?
  Those four drops are what I am seeking for in my dance.
  As a drop holding day and night inside me, I would like to fall into this puddle."
  
  The Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred on 17 January 1995, and with a desire to visit and help the people of Kobe, Atsushi Takenouchi danced for the souls of the dead.
  
  - Participated in the 1st OSAKA DANCE EXPERIENCE.
  - Atsushi Takenouchi JINEN Butoh Performance
  

  

  Performer(s)

  TORII HALL

  Director/Choreographer

  Atsushi Takenouchi

  Venue

  TORII HALL

  Year performed

  1995

• A Journey to Mr. O, A Journey from Mr. O

  Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno passed away on 1 June 2010, at the age of 103. That year, memorial gatherings were held all around the world. The Kazuo Ohno Festival, which had been held annually since 2004, took place from November to December with the aim of sharing "the world of Kazuo Ohno". For three nights, including the opening performance, a series of short works by past festival participants and open-call artists were presented in a "never-ending butoh gathering". "A Journey to Mr. O, A Journey from Mr. O" was performed on the third night, featuring four solo pieces, and a group dance directed by Yoshito Ohno with students from the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio.
  
  -Kazuo Ohno Festival 2010

  

  Performer(s)

  Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio

  Venue

  BankART Studio NYK

  Year performed

  2010

• K FRAGMENTS 1989：GEODESISTS ; FRIEDA/AMALIA ; PARALLAX

  Performed in Prague, Kafka's birthplace, for the Kafka International Theatre Festival '89. A memorable event that marked the lifting of the ban on Kafka, following the democratisation of the Czech Republic. The work presented the disconnection, power and parasitic nature of relationships in Kafka's world in 3 acts based on his unfinished novel 'The Castle'; Act 1 'The Land Surveyor', Act 2 'Frieda and Amalia' (two women from the Castle), and Act 3 'Parallax'. It presented a new look at Kafka's literature from a unique perspective.
  
  From Franz Kafka's 'The Castle':
  Act 1: Geodesists (Chapter 1 'The Land Surveyor')
  Act 2: Frieda / Amalia (Chapter 2 'Frieda and Amalia')
  Act 3: Parallax (Chapter 3 'Parallax')
  
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Molecular Theatre

  Director/Choreographer

  Shigeyuki Toshima

  Venue

  Junior Club Theatre

  Year performed

  1989

• KAIGO KAIGO KAIGO !

  Kim Manri had a home in Ikuno, but was forced to grow up in a hospital and institution far away, and was erased from the community. As she started living independently and meeting various people, the need to face Ikuno once more appeared as a natural path. What would emerge from the disabled confronting the melting pot of Korean immigrant community? This work is filled with excitement.
  
  - Gekidan Taihen / Musical for the Disabled

  

  Performer(s)

  Performance Troupe TAIHEN

  Director/Choreographer

  Manri Kim

  Venue

  Ikuno Children's Home

  Year performed

  1988

• KAMUI

  The last piece created by Teru Goi, who died in May 2008. The image of him loading and towing many, many white stones on a cart left a lasting impression. The flyer states 'Don't cry boy - Last round'.
  
  - Teru Goi Solo Butoh Performance

  

  Performer(s)

  Teru Goi

  Director/Choreographer

  Teru Goi

  Venue

  Terpsichore (Tokyo)

  Year performed

  2007

• Kansai TV: No Need to Knock

  This footage records Byakko-sha’s appearance on the public talk show "No Need to Knock," broadcast on Kansai Television. The program was hosted by Knock Yokoyama and Ryūtarō Kamioka and aired every Saturday. During this recording, Kamioka took a liking to Byakko-sha, and they subsequently began to be invited to appear on other television programs, expanding their activities to include television, film, and music videos. In the 1980s, Byakko-sha stood out for their strong impact and, as a butoh group, had frequent media exposure, becoming known even among audiences who did not attend butoh performances.

  

  Performer(s)

  Byakko-sha

  Director/Choreographer

  Isamu Osuka

  Year performed

  1984

• KATASHIRO

  Nagato City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, where legend has it that Chikamatsu Monzaemon was born, is home to Akasaki Shrine, which houses an open-air theatre called Gakusajiki. In 1994, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the municipality, the Chikamatsu-in-Nagato '94 festival was held with various events including a commemorative lecture by Donald Keene, a local theatre performance and a puppetry show by the Children's Chikamatsu Theatre. For the festival opening, Namerikawa Goro directed this performance, which made use of the entire Gakusajiki theatre.

  Performer(s)

  Goro Namerikawa/Austro Arts Association Co.,Ltd.

  Director/Choreographer

  Goro Namerikawa

  Venue

  Akasaki Shrine Outdoor Theatre Gaku-sajiki

  Year performed

  1994

• Kei Takei’s Moving Earth IN VARIABLE LANDSCAPE

  Performed at 'Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes', an exhibition of work by sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who also worked on Martha Graham's stage design. The performance toured with the exhibition at various museums. Six dancers performed in a space named 'Variable Landscape', prepared by Noguchi prepared for the performance, moving pieces of wood and other objects and changing the landscape through physical expression. A collaborative work incorporating the beauty of Japanese life, such as paper lamps, tatami and shouji through the work of Isamu Noguchi.
  
  - The recording was filmed at the Walker Art Centre on 1 May 1978. It is not known how many performances took place there.
  

  Performer(s)

  Kei Takei’s Moving Earth

  Director/Choreographer

  Kei Takei

  Venue

  Walker Art Center

  Year performed

  1978

• Kenkon-tan

  Isao Mizutani was commissioned to create the stage desgin for Tatsumi Hijikata's first recital in 1960, to which he responded with originality and ingenuity, and having earned Hijikata's trust became close friends with him. Mizutani, a painter and kiln builder, based this butoh piece on the Creation story, set at a climbing kiln, which is also a site of national heritage in Seto, Aichi. It was performed by Koichi Tamano, a butoh dancer and former pupil of Hijikata based in San Francisco. The work was presented in memory of Tatsumi Hijikata.

  

  Performer(s)

  Asbestos-kan

  Director/Choreographer

  Akiko Motofuji

  Venue

  Setohongyogama

  Year performed

  1990

• Kenran – Vers “Y”

  This performance was part of "Festival des Arts Danse Directe", the annual festival founded by Masaki Iwana in 1998 in Normandy, France at his residence and studio La Maison du Butoh Blanc, which still exists today after his passing away. It was shortly after the death of his first wife who had taken her own life at the end of a difficult terminal disease, hence the dedication to "Y".
  
  -KENRAN (Improvisations)
  -Festival des Arts Danse Directe #5

  

  Performer(s)

  Masaki Iwana

  Director/Choreographer

  Masaki Iwana

  Venue

  La Maison du Butoh Blanc, La Perrotiere

  Year performed

  2002

• The Kindness of Lies

  The man is a director. At home, he is husband, father and son. During the production of Oedipus he becomes ill and is hospitalised. Suspecting cancer, he presses his doctors, family and friends to tell him the truth. Amidst lies and cover-ups, he compares his own behaviour with Oedipus'. While perceiving that he is incurable, he tries not to hurt his family's caring.
  As he compares himself to Oedipus and looks at death, he comes to tolerate the demeanour and nature of Japan.
  At Christmas, he tries to enjoy the moment with his friends and family. Outside the snow flutters, sweeping away the dirt.
  
  - Participated in the ACA National Arts Festival 1988

  

  Performer(s)

  Wakamatsu Miki & Tsuda Ikuko Free Dance Performance

  Director/Choreographer

  Miki Wakamatsu, Ikuko Tsuda

  Venue

  Yomiuri Hall

  Year performed

  1988

• Dance Video: The Kingdom of Light

  An experimental dance/art video with three parts ("Chimera," "hyoryu-kyoshitsu," and "The Kingdom of Light"). It was filmed in September 1987 in the Red Desert, a sacred site in Indigenous culture, following Byakko-sha’s performance at a festival in Melbourne. The video was awarded the Grand Prix Fund at the 1987 Tokyo International Video Biennale.

  

  Performer(s)

  Byakko-sha

  Director/Choreographer

  Seigen Kyu, Jun Abe, Isamu Osuka

  Venue

  Filmed in Australia

  Year performed

  1987

• Kinpun Dance

  Footage shot for the film "Halber Mensch" (released in 1986, directed by Sōgo Ishii), which depicts a live performance by the West German industrial noise band Einstürzende Neubauten. The 16mm positive kept in Osuka’s possession was not used in the finished film. Filming began in a multi-tenant building in Shibuya and continued through the night at a location near the Arakawa River, a place with the smell of a slaughterhouse, which became the setting for this footage. The dancers are covered in kinpun (gold powder), but perform movements normally danced in white body paint. It is rare to see these movements performed while holding torches.

  

  Performer(s)

  Byakko-sha

  Director/Choreographer

  Isamu Osuka

  Year performed

  1986

• Kirin Plaza “Twilight Hour” (Tadanori Yokoo Exhibition)

  At the "Tadanori Yokoo Exhibition: Laws of Heaven," Byakko-sha performed a special live performance by their "takeout" butoh group ART BODIC, titled "New Twilight Hour: Encountering Tadanori Yokoo." Byakko-sha members paraded from Dotonbori Bridge, drawing a crowd, while more than 50 people who could not enter the venue watched the performance on a monitor on another floor. Although not an independent work, "Twilight Hour" was a staple of ART BODIC, and many of its movements are incorporated into other pieces. Tadanori Yokoo had a close relationship with Byakko-sha and often visited their rehearsal space whenever he traveled to the Kansai region.

  

  Performer(s)

  Byakko-sha

  Director/Choreographer

  Isamu Osuka

  Venue

  KIRIN PLAZA OSAKA

  Year performed

  1991

• Ko&Kota

  Improvised battle between Ko Murobushi and Kota Yamazaki. The stage was used as a ring in which they "competed" an improvised dance. Held at the end of the year, the event was held in support of Yamazaki, who was facing difficulties at the time.

  

  Performer(s)

  Kaibunsha

  Director/Choreographer

  Ko Murobushi, Kota Yamazaki

  Venue

  Kagurazaka die pratze

  Year performed

  2001

• KUDAN

  Inspired by the novel of the same title by a Japanese author Hyakken Uchida (1889-1971).
  In this work, Kaseki embodies the mythical being who makes prophecies, KUDAN (man's head with an ox body). He is destined to die within three days of his birth, and yet he ruminates on the memories and feelings he had when he was a human being. He is chased, surrounded, and waited upon by people who expect the prophecy.
  The air becomes thick with anticipation and longing, and one day suffocates the audience. Fear shifts from the prophecy-unaware case to the spectators, and they flee. KUDAN stands alone again.
  The structure of fear, human desire, and foolishness are expressed with simple movements and staging, sometimes grotesque, sometimes ridiculous. Audiences are expected and anticipated, and they are seen as they watch. Who will be the next KUDAN? Fear is shaken and penetrated into the body.
  
  -Premiered in September 1998 at loplop in Berlin.

  

  Performer(s)

  Yuko Kaseki

  Director/Choreographer

  Yuko Kaseki

  Venue

  DOCK11 (Berlin)

  Year performed

  2002

• Kuu (Emptiness)

  Premiere of Yoshito Ohno's solo work "Kuu" (Emptiness). The performance commemorated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Japan Society, and was part of "Kazuo Ohno 101: Three-Week Butoh Parade" project. The performance begins with Yoshito standing turned away from the audience, presenting his back, which he cited as a distinctive characteristic of butoh. He then performs a number of short pieces, including one choreographed by Tatsumi Hijikata in 1985. Towards the end a video piece is shown - "Sehnsucht" (2007) by Seiji Tanaka (filmmaker, butoh dancer and Yoshito's student) - followed by a finale in which Yoshito performs with a hand puppet modelled after Kazuo Ohno. The performance took place on Kazuo Ohno's 101st birthday.
  

  

  Performer(s)

  Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio

  Director/Choreographer

  Yoshito Ohno

  Venue

  Japan Society

  Year performed

  2007

• La Pesanteur et La Grâce

  Piece based on the poem "Antonio Gramsci" by Jean Daive. Antonio Gramsci was a philosopher, founding member of the Italian Communist Party and imprisoned by the Mussolini regime from 1926 until his death. His wife Giulia, whom he met in Russia, and her two sisters Tatiana and Tania worked to extract the philosopher's texts during their visits to the prison throughout his period of incarceration.
  Three women, Three muses, Three Graces... "Grace" is the theme of Spring of Poets Festival 2024.
  
  "Gravity and Grace / Antonio Gramsci” by Naomi Mutoh (dance) & Jean Daive (reading of his latest text work) with Laurent Paris (music montage)
  March 23 at 8:30 p.m. Halle de Charter-ons BORDEAUX as part of the Poetry Market / Spring of Poets 2024.
  
  -Bordeaux Poetry Market 25th anniversary / Spring of Poets Festival 2024

  

  Performer(s)

  Compagnie MEDULLA

  Director/Choreographer

  Naomi Mutoh, Jean Daive

  Venue

  Halle de Charterons

  Year performed

  2024

• Labyrinth of Body

  Dedicated to Tatsumi Hijikata in commemoration of 50 years of butoh, this stage adaptation of Tanigawa Atsushi's "Labyrinth of Body" follows "The Topography of the Fantasy". Using the "subtle distance between myself and my strange body", Waguri tackles the labyrinth that is his self. Together with contemporary dancer Seki, he created this work for six female butoh dancers using Hijikata's butoh-fu [butoh notation]. Although he continued his work touring overseas and performing new pieces after this, this was Waguri's last performance in Japan with his company Kozensha.

  

  Performer(s)

  Kozensha

  Director/Choreographer

  Yukio Waguri

  Venue

  Nippori Sunny Hall

  Year performed

  2010

• Lament

  "LAMENT is a collaboration with video artist James Byrne.
  Movement material adapted from Eiko & Koma's 1984 performance work ELEGY.
  Sound mix by Eiko & Koma.
  Commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and made possible with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation, St. Paul, MN.
  Videographed July, 1985 at the Triplex Theatre, New York, NY.
  Edited in 1986. This video was aired nationally through LLine from Off Center PBS.
  1986, Eiko & Koma, James Byrne, Walker Art Center © Eiko & Koma. James Byrne"
  
  - Eiko & Koma's dance film series 'dance for camera'

  

  Performer(s)

  Eiko & Koma

  Director/Choreographer

  Eiko & Koma, James Byrne

  Venue

  Recorded at the Triplex Theater

  Year performed

  1986

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