Projects
Information on events, works and research based on archival material, shared with the hope of expanding the possibilities of the dance archive and its role in society.
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Performance
All About Zero
Butoh Archive ProjectGuided by Noh actor Kanji Shimizu, we will trace the pass of three legendary artists, Hironobu Oikawa, Mamako Yoneyama and Yoshito Ohno, who have been active as artists since 1950s when Butoh was not yet called as Butoh. Answers may lay in those Butoh-Zero years which we will witness through various media including videos, live performances and talks in this “Event.”
Saturday, June 8, 2019. 15:00~ at Theater X (cai) in Ryogoku, Tokyo
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Research
Online Survey: Butoh’s Current Situation Outside Japan Targeting Individual Performers
Butoh Archive ProjectDance Archive Network is conducting online survey to outline the current situation of Butoh in the world. We greatly appreciate your cooperation.
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Exhibition/Workshop/Conference
International Dance Film Festival 2018-2019 “Lingering Bodies”
Tokyo Zokei University Film & Moving Image + Dance and Media Japan + NPO Dance Archive Network What does the documented body convey? Observing the link between video and performing arts, as seen through the lens of recorded images, with exhibition, workshop and discussion.
Thursday 31 January 2019 through Sunday 17 February
at the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1 -
Performance
Dance Becoming Physical Education?
Lecture-Performance by Saiko KinoAt Dance New Air 2018, Saiko Kino will present both lecture-performances she premiered in Dance Archive Project 2016 & 2018, “Through the Life and Work of Kazuo Ohno, the PE Teacher” and “Dance as Nation-founding Calisthenics.”
Saturday, October 6 & Sunday, October 7, 2018 at the Goethe-Institut Tokyo
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Exhibition
The Kazuo Ohno exhibition “Daily Bread” : the life of the Butoh dancer who passed away at the age of 103
Is this Dance? “Kazuo Ohno” is still among us.This exhibition seeks to tap into the innermost “Kazuo Ohno” with the help of unpublished materials, snapshots, videos, testimonies by relatives, and so on.
Friday 28 Sept. thru Saturday 8 Dec., 2018 at Wakyama Art Museum-Media Art Gallery in Tokyo -
Performance
Dance Becoming Physical Education? Vol. 2: Dance as Nation-founding Calisthenics
Dance Archive Project 2018 The premiere of Saiko Kino’s lecture-performance “Dance as Nation-founding Calisthenics” last February was well received and eye-opening, so here we present the second opportunity for you to experience it!
Saturday 12 May 2018 at the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery’s conference room -
Performance
Inspired by the anti-war masterpiece The Green Table 2017
Week-days Show! Let’s go to see dance on weeknights!Premiered in Kobe in March 2017 and performed in Aichi in April this year, “The Green Table 2017” will be finally played in Tokyo this fall.
Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6, 2018 at the Goethe-Institut Tokyo
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Exhibition
Takao Kawaguchi / Digital 3D in Motion
~ Digital archiving Kazuo Ohno's movements through Takao Kawaguchi's body Dance Archive Project 2018DAN exhibits its challenge to archive Kazuo Ohno's movements through Takao Kawaguchi, who has been performing number of times "About Kazuo Ohno" by copying Kazuo's dance precisely.
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Performance
Dance Becoming Physical Education? Vol. 2: Dance as Nation-founding Calisthenics
Dance Archive Project 2018Saiko Kino's lecture-performance "Dance Becoming Physical Education?" premiered at Dance Archive Project 2016 brought eye-opening experiences. This is her second attempt to lead you more deeper into her project.
Sunday 11 February 2018 at the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery's conference room -
Performance
The Sick Dancer -- With the texts from Tatsumi Hijikata’s “Yameru Maihime
Butoh Archive Project (BAP)Butoh dancer Tomomi Tanabe and the still naive performer Takao Kawaguchi dissect Tatsumi Hijikata’s “The Ailing Dance Mistress”.
Friday 9 Feb. thru Sunday 11 Feb., 2018 at the BUoY Arts Center Tokyo