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Works by Koichi Watanabe, Atsushi Suwa, Tim Walker and others, as well as stage set for Yoshito Ohno’s solo performance The Solitary Claw in 1969 will be exhibited.

Born in New York in 1928, William Klein studied literature at the Sorbonne, and oil-painting under Fernand Léger. He started photography in 1953 and visited Japan to shoot Tokyo in 1961. This led the publication of the photo book Tokyo in 1964. A significant innovator, he has explored fresh approaches, spanning exhibitions of vintage prints, large-scale blow-ups, to collaboration with painting.

Born in Tokyo in 1938, Yoshito Ohno performed the role of the young boy in Tatsumi Hijikata’s Kinjiki [Forbidden Colours] in 1959. Throughout the 1960s he was active in butoh performances until he quit the stage in 1969 soon after his first solo recital. In 1985, he made his stage comeback as he appeared alongside Kazuo Ohno in The Dead Sea; thereafter he was to direct all of Kazuo's stage performances. Among his legendary collaborations are: The Promising Morning (2010) with the Tanztheater Wuppertal dancers’ Julia Anne Stanzak and Eddie Martinez and Antony and the Ohnos (2010) with Antony and the Johnsons. He premiered his solo Flower and Bird in 2013, and later performed it in Europe (2014), Brazil (2015), and China (2016). Author of Kazuo Ohno - Food for the Soul and Butoh: A Way of Life. A new publication Portrait of Ono Yoshito by Inuhiko Yomota has just been released this year.

Born in England and living in NYC, Anohni first gained international prominence upon winning the UK’s Mercury prize in 2005 for her album I Am a Bird Now with her band Antony and the Johnsons. Anohni's unique voice led to performances with symphony orchestras around the world, collaborations with artists including Lou Reed, Charles Atlas, Marina Abramovic, and Bjork, and exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Hammer Museum. In 2016 Anohni was nominated for an Oscar for her contribution to the song “Manta Ray,” an address to the world’s dying coral reefs. Her latest album Hopelessness was a collaboration with Hudson Mohawke and OPN, and uses dance music to explore themes of ecocide, drone warfare, and global virulence. All of Anohni's creative practices draw tremendous inspiration from the work of the Ohno family, and it is her great honor to sing beside Yoshito Ohno.

Takao Kawaguchi joined the Japanese multimedia performance group Dumb Type in 1996, and started to present solo works as of 2000. His works are “neither dance nor theater. They are nothing other than performances,” (Tatsuro Ishii, dance critic). Such works include DiQueNoVes (Say You Don’t See) (2003) and D.D.D.-How Many Times Will My Heart Beat Before It Stops? (2004-2007). His Butoh-related pieces include The Ailing Dance Mistress – based on texts by Tatsumi Hijikata (2012) and About Kazuo Ohno (2013). About Kazuo Ohno has been repeatedly performed and well received worldwide and was nominated for outstanding revived work at the 2017 Bessie Awards’.

Johanna Constantine is a New York-based performance artist, choreographer, DJ, and feminist activist. She has collaborated with a wide range of interdisciplinary artists including Anohni, composer William Basinski, designer Manuel Albarran, and author Terrence Sellars. She is the subject of a number of short films by video artist Charles Atlas, and appeared with him in a live installation at the Tate Modern in 2013.

◇From your PC or mobile:
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Search the word “Dance Archive Project in Tokyo” and purchase.
The following are the links to purchase each event from your PC and mobile in Japanese:
◯Anohni and Yoshito Ohno "Clear-Eyed Spirits"
http://sort.eplus.jp/sys/T1U14P0010843P006001P002244767P0030001
◯Takao Kawaguchi, Johanna Constantine and guests
http://sort.eplus.jp/sys/T1U14P0010843P006001P002244769P0030001
◯Exhibition: Dance Archives and their Future
http://sort.eplus.jp/sys/T1U14P0010843P006001P002244774P0030001

Tickets can be purchased through Fami-port.

Please send an email to info@dance-archive.net or call 03-3450-6507 stating your name, contact details, and the type of ticket including the date you’d like to attend.

For further information
NPO Dance Archive Network
info@dance-archive.net
tel:03-3450-6507

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2-6-10 Higashishinagawa, Shinagawa, Tokyo 140-0002
5-minute walk from the south or central exits of Tennozu Isle station on Tokyo Monorail Haneda Airport line
4-minute walk from exit B of Tennozu Isle station on Rinkai line
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