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Following on an invitation by the Steiermarkische cultural promotion foundation of Austria, the Kanazawa Butoh Kan participated in the international dance festival in Graz. The performance and workshop were part of Cultural Capital of Europe 2003. Locally, this year's performance was a major draw. Some of the hopeful audience had to watch a video feed, and others were observed to give up and go home for lack of available seating. Results expected from this project include the spread of butoh in Graz and stronger ties between Kanazawa Butoh Kan and the artists and arts promoting foundations in the city.
Butoh Performance "The Sea of Memories"
Date: 15 July 2003
Venue: Theatre in Palais, Graz
Visitors: 270 (including video audience)
Performance: Adrift undramatized on a sea of memory, memories scatter and fade on day after day. A self-portrait is one sketched from such fragments of memories that cannot be saved. An encounter with one's own unknown face. What would a dance be like if created in this way?
Workshop
Date: 7-9 July 2003
Venue: Kunstuniversitat Graz
Participants : 32
Content: Learning the basics required in dance construction. Attendees created a short work of fifteen minutes from the dance instructions acquired in the workshop that was then performed before an audience of 200 on the final day.
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Kanazawa Butoh Kan
Launched in 1976 around the core of dancer Moe Yamamoto following his detachment from the Hakutou-bo group of the Ankoku-ha led by Tatsumi Hijikata. The Kanazawa-based group has since pursued activities in dance that are termed "avant-garde butoh". Since the 1980's the group has actively performed throughout Japan and overseas. |
Member& Staffs:
Moe Yamamoto, Dancer
Kei Shirasaka, Dancer
Rui Yamamoto, Sound
Teruko Suzuki, Interpreter/Tour Manager
International Dance Festival Graz /Int. Tanztheaterfestival Graz
Held by the Graz International Dance Institute, a non-profit organization founded in 1992, the International Dance Festival Graz is held each year in July. The festival seeks to provide a platform for dance companies and dancers to exchange techniques of instruction and engage in communication at physical, theoretical and philosophical levels in a context permitting interaction in the creative process.
Organized by: Graz International Dance Institute,Cultural Capital of Europe Graz 2003,
Cooperation with: EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
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