Videos
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- Video ID number
- V00002
- Recording date
- 4 December 1994
- Video length
- 1h 45m
Overview
Performance by Motofuji Akiko inspired by the installation of figurative sculptures by Magdalena Abakanowicz at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), which had been placed the previous year. After watching a video recording of the performance, Abakanowicz contacted Motofuji, and the two began corresponding by letter, discussing their creative work. How can butoh be expressed through the restricted spirits of sculpted bodies? In this way, the work became a collaboratively directed/choreographed butoh piece.
Details
- Title
- Letter to Abakanowicz (1994)
- Performance creator(s)
- Asbestos-kan
- Direction/Choreography
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Direction and Choreography: Akiko Motofuji
Co-direction: Magdalena Abakanowicz - Venue
- Asbestos-kan
- Performance date(s)
- 4 December 1994
- Performer(s) and staff
- Performers: Akiko Motofuji, Asbestos-Kan'S Butoh Performers
- Genre
- Butoh