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We are excited to be teaming up with Yale University this fall to bring you a unique opportunity to journey back nearly half a century into the world of Tatsumi Hijikata’s butoh choreography.All events are free, but workshop participation is limited and subject to application! See more at
https://www.pohrc.com/butoh-scores-2024
Over the course of four days of intensive workshops, we will rediscover choreographic phrases from works of the late 1970s with dancers who originally performed in them, Saga Kobayashi and Moe Yamamoto. Through a combination of rare video recordings, dancers’ notebooks from the time, and the embodied memories of Kobayashi and Yamamoto, we will go behind the scenes of Hijikata’s choreographic creation. Workshops will be limited to 20 participants and free of charge. Applications will be accepted until September 20.
Register for the workshops here.
https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9A1kqjlqGCoTqaa
The workshops will be followed by a two-day symposium of screenings and performance lectures, open to all, which will offer a rare opportunity to discover the workings of Hijikata’s choreographic method through the guidance of artists who performed in his works. We will be joined by Saga Kobayashi, Moe Yamamoto and Kei Shirasaka of Kanazawa Butoh Kan, alongside longtime archivist and producer of Hijikata’s works, Takashi Morishita, and current archivist Kae Ishimoto. Our aim across these two days will be to reveal the relationship between video recordings of Hijikata’s dances from the late 1970s and the language he used to choreograph them, drawing on the private notational archives of Kobayashi and Yamamoto along with archival documents from the Hijikata Archive at Keio University. Several of the archival films we will be showing will be screened outside of Japan for the first time. The symposium events are open to all and free of charge.
The two-day symposium will end with a performance lecture by French choreographer Anne-Marie Van – aka Nach, Nulle part est un endroit, followed by a reception hosted at Henry R. Luce Hall. Nulle part est un endroit traces Nach’s own journey from the world of krump through her discovery of butoh dance and other styles, including flamenco and kathakali. Nach will open up the histories of butoh we will have traced over the preceding two days towards new entanglements and horizons, gesturing to the kinds of futures we hope our work with historic notational documents can make possible. This performance lecture and following reception will be open to all and free of charge.
We hope to see many of you there!
https://www.pohrc.com
Supported by the Yale MacMillan Center Council on East Asian Studies, Yale Schwarzman Center, Yale Dance Lab, and Keio University Art Center.
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