Atsushi Takenouchi
JINEN Butoh Intensive workshop project
-Connection between JINEN and body and yourself-
23rd-29th August 2010
final perfomance 29th August
All the life was born from the earth. And originally human danced on this ground of this earth.
It is important
to find out and to be conscious our body as a part of this huge
circulation. This time we will work on our body movement to recognize
the connection between nature/environment and yourself through Atsushi
Takenouchi’s JINEN Butoh training. And he will guide us how to
create dance from this awareness, and it enables us to know that we can
change all the environment into dance.
During this
workshop, we explore body gravity, movement and balance, imaging body,
transformation by internal and external state, visible and invisible,
various walking, conscious and unconscious movement, a dialogue between
body and an environment, with basic Butoh practice.
Meeting with the
nature in Ostuni /south Italy, we experience the connection between
your body and the nature, and also experience the environment as a part
of your body. We discover how the body movement arises and becomes into
dance.
photo Germana Siciliani |
photo Hiroko Komiya |
There will be
morning classes, and afternoon classes and improvisational dance in the
nature side and inside studio everyday. The classes will be with live
music made by Hiroko Komiya. Atsushi will lead our work into creation
of each participant’s short solo/duo piece. On the last day,
there will be all the participants’ presentation in the nature or
specific outside location.
*** Participants can bring costume or material for the last presentation.
*** Musician,
who is interested in being involved in this nature Butoh project, can
join with own musical instruments. Participation free, but
accommodation and food expense, travel costs are needed. Please contact
for more details.
“ Dance is
devotion of life” I learned this while my travelling nature
fields called JINEN. This has never changed since old times and will
never change. This means I should dance to “my life”, to
the moment, and to now which lasts forever.
I’ve
got my body from the earth. I’ve got my life from the sun and the
moon, my parents, my friends and my love. Then I’ll return the
gifts to these universe. I’ll return them to others through
dancing body and soul. As I see a tiny flower selflessly, I meet a
dance filled with a joy of “ life”. And then, my body is
filled up with water of “ life”. The seeds of memory inside
of myself come into bud.
The sound
of winds is the whispering of the earth. The sound of minerals is the
muttering of machines. We hear the sounds of the universe through
explosion and noise and stillness.
Oh,
thousands of sounds, take our souls far away to our unknown world.
Travel with reminding us of forgotten dances. On the sun and the moon,
there are young men singing eternal songs at every place in the world.
Let’s begin an ancient and modern fete at “ relics of
life” holding artificial and nature－on earth.
JINEN Butoh Atsushi Takenouchi
photos Hiroko Komiya
PROFILE
Atsushi
Takenouchi joined butoh dance company "Hoppo-Butoh-ha" in Hokkaido in
1980. His last performance with the company "Takazashiki"(1984) was
worked on by butoh-founder Tatsumi Hijikata. Atsushi has started his
own "Jinen Butoh" since 1986 and created solo works "Itteki" "Ginkan"
as a universal expression of nature, earth, and ancient times and
impressions of the moment, meeting with people and environment. He made
3year “JINEN” tour project throughout Japan for 600
sitespecific improvisations (1996-1999). During this time, he studied a
spirit of the universe under Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno. In 1999-2000,
“Sun & Moon” tour project -12 countries in Europe and
south east Asia - danced in nature and historical site. Since 2002, he
has been mainly based in Europe, working on butoh dance collaboration
project with dancers and actors in France, Poland,U.S.A and other
countries. In 2002 and 2004, he received 1 year art fellowship funded
by Japanese government and Japan Foundation. In 2005, he presented solo
"Stone" in Avignon festival and choreographed a butoh procession with
twenty dancers through city in the festival. Recently, he is also
focusing on creating group performance.
”Koe”(Paris,NY/2003),“Gen”(Paris,NY,Warsaw/2004,2005),
“Butoh Byo”
(Paris/2006),“U-Pipe”(Italy/2006),“Life and Death,
Mandala of Transmigration”(Paris/2007).
Video/DVD
- 1996〜1998 Gin yu-Butoh "JINEN" digest、
- "Tanagokoro・Itteki・Ginkan" digest
- "JINEN in Iwaya"（BE-BOX）,
- "The 2nd Osaka Dance Experience1996 RE-VIEW"（TORII HALL）
-"KI ZA MU" 2005 (Teatr KANA/Poland)
Publication
-1994 " Dance with Nature in the Rice Festival" picture book
Poem and illustrations by Atsushi Takenouchi.( issued by Noubunkyo)
-2005 "Metaphysics in Motion" written by Sandra Fraleigh
-2006 "Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo" written by Sandra Fraleigh & Tamah Nakamura
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