Workshop around Hijikata Tatsumi’s words “Sickened Dance Princess”
by Yuko Kominami
“I let my elder sister live in my body. When I am absorbed in creating a dance, she tears offdarkness within my body and devours it more than she needs; when she stands up in my body, Isit down automatically; when I fall, she falls….” (Being jealous of dog’s veins)
The workshop delves into the founder of butoh Tatsumi Hijikata’s words, which is at the sametime butoh-scores. We will explore how his words and images are used by deconstructingestablished language structures – “by incessantly dilating a suffocated passage between meaning and sensing” (Kuniyoshi 2004) – to let appear the extremely concrete and paradoxicalworld of his dance body that senses all and always in metamorphosis. The workshop consists of experimentation with his text from “Yameru-maihime” (sickened dance princess) and tryingexercising with words from Yukio Waguri’s “Butoh-Kaden” (the noted dance score from Hijikata’srehearsals).
Dates and times
Sat 7th and Sun 8th Dec 2024
12h30-16h30
Registration
Full price: 100€
Kulturpass: 50€
IBAN: LU07 0023 1840 7202 8200
BIC: BILLLULL
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Dancer/Choreographer (Luxembourg/Portugal)
Born in 1973, Japan. She studied Butoh and dance in Tokyo. After finishing her BA in Japanese history at Waseda University, she did a Professional Diploma in Community Dance Studies and an Independent Study Programme at Laban Centre London from 1998 to 2000. She obtained her MA in Dance Cultures, Histories and Practices from the University of Surrey in 2006. She has been working as an independent dance and performance artist. She has collaborated with other dancers, choreographers, artists, musicians and theatre directors of various landscapes.
She has performed her work in prominent festivals such as Festival June Events – Atelier de Paris Carolyn Carlson, Les Repérages Danse à Lille, Festivalul International de Teatru de la Sibiu, Bodyradical in Budapest, Odisha Biennale in India, Venice International Film Festival and so on. She has also worked and performed in countries around the world – including Luxembourg, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Latvia,
Finland, Turkey, U.K. , Japan, China, India and Peru. She is currently based in Luxembourg and Portugal.