Report summerButoh workshop in Pontedera Italy 夏舞踏ワークショップレポート in イタリア

In July, we are giving 4weeks intensive summer Butoh workshop in residency 
in Pontedera at Spazio NU (Toscana/Italy). 

Each week has each theme and work. Each weekend, we make presentation of 
each participants improvisation at site specific location. 

First weekend was Butoh procession in Sarzana city. The second weekend was 
in the forest. 
And the third week .... one day at the former prison building from middle age.
And next day at historical site; Tempio di Minerva Medica from early 19th century.


With more than 20 dancers, this 2days became truly deep time with dancing, playing
sound, sharing, feeling, receiving...

Here is some photos from each place.

この7月、私達はイタリア　トスカーナにあるポンタデラという街のSpazioNUにて一カ月の

夏舞踏合宿ワークショップを行っている。毎週それぞれにテーマがあり、毎週末、様々な

場所で各参加者の即興舞踏のプレゼンを行っている。例えば1週目の週末は、サルザナ市

での街中にて舞踏行列。2週目の週末はキャンピングの続きで森の中での発表。

そして3週目の週末。1日は中世の牢獄跡の建物（現在はミュージアム）。翌日は、

19世紀初期に建てられたMinervaMedica神殿にて。どちらも　とても趣深い場所であった。

20人を超える参加者の踊り手とともに、この両日は真に深い時間となった。5時間踊りつづけ、

歌い、奏で、様々なことを感じ、また受取ることができた。

下記はそれぞれの写真である。

                                                                                  photo by Olivier Raymond

                                                                                            photo by Valentina

                                                                                 photo by Olivier Raymond

                                                                                                                          photo by Olivier Raymond

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many many deep and inspiring moments....

thank you for all the participants, wonderful dancers...

Thank you for Spazio NU. 

So we have just one more week, let's keep on dance dance dance .

深く心に触れる時間、光景、

素晴らしい踊り手たち、そして主催してくれたSpazioNUにとても感謝している。

さあ、残りあと1週間最後まで踊りつくそう。

                                                   photo by Olivier Raymond

                                                                                    photo by Olivier Raymond

July9-16 concert tour "ashita" Hiroko Komiya & Kazuya Nagaya collaboration

It's July, summer. The sky is clear blue, and the sun gives us a lot of lights. 

We finished our Butoh performance " Sea of the memory" in Paris Butoh festival in the end of June. And Atsushi danced short solo improvisation in the event "After Skite" at Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson as opening on the 25th June. 

And now, Atsushi has started Intensive 1month JINEN Butoh workshop in Italy (Pontedera).

Good energy in the group, deep moments of dance, sharing, caring, feeling, moving, and there

will be various performance time at open air, site specific location, every weekend.  

From this week, Hiroko will start concert tour with project "ashita" in collaboration with Japanese musician/composer Kazuya Nagaya in Poland. Since I/hiroko have been working on new collaboration album with him, we have performed together various places like in Tokyo, 

Shizuoka, and Paris. We hope it will become deep music journey...

And I will join in Italy after this..

The detaile of the concert is below. 

Thank you for reading...

Hiroko

CONCERT tour in Poland
"ashita" project
July 9 (Szczecin), July 12 (Warsaw), July 14 (Krakow), July 16 (Poznan) 

perform by :
Hiroko Komiya( voice, object sound )
http://www.jinen-butoh.com/hiroko_profile_e.html
Kazuya Nagaya( gong, singing bowls, buddhist instrument, guitar, etc )
http://www.ame-ambient.com/

ashita

In japanese word, "ashita" means "tomorrow".
With the painful disaster ; earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear power plant accident in Japan on the 11th of March 2011, we have lost so many people and things as if we`ve lost everything.
We`ve been in a great sorrow, mourning to the deads, weeping to what`s lost, standing at the corner looking for a direction which leads us to our new tomorrow "ashita".May "ashita" bright and warm to everyone enough to melt our painful memories and sorrow.
So we pray. So we wish. From the bottom of our hearts.
Let us open the gate and all the windows to welcome a new tomorrow….ashita

2011 collaboration concert tour "ashita "
The sound of belles deeply reverberates and sometime exists as melody floating through the sky. 
The sound of gongs, of the kind ceaselessly heard in the temples of Tibet, or Bali, or Japan. 
The sound of string is like flow of the river of memory. The voice is hovering in mid-air, tracing some ethereal melodic curves.
It is a world of sounds slowly echoing together, melding into one, and then reverting to an inner silence.

As the sound fades away, simultaneously, the depth of their own silence grows even greater.

In Kazuya and Hiroko's sound-world, the listeners are invited to the journey where these silent river flows, where lost memory gathers, where you may find small light as 
the beginning of next day.  

<Schedule>
July 9, 2011, 19:00- / SzczecinSPOIWA KULTURY Festival ( Bonds of Culture festival )
http://www.kana.art.pl/fest_spoiwa_2011_pl_program.html 

http://www.kana.art.pl/fest_spoiwa_2011_pl_topics.html 

contact: KANA THEATRICAL CENTRE
+ 48 91 4330388,  + 48 91 4341561
info@kana.art.pl


July 12, 2011, 20:00- / Warsaw 
at Laboratorium CSW Zamek Ujazdowski (Centre for contemporary art Ujazdowski castle)
add: Ul.Jazdów 2, Warsaw, Poland
Tickets: 25,- PLN
Contact: POMPKA Foundation, Anita Zdrojewska
anita_z@tlen.pl
http://csw.art.pl/index.php?action=aktualnosci&s2=1&id=415&lang= 

http://www.fundacjapompka.org.pl/blog/12-lipca-zapraszamy-na-koncert-do-csw-zamek-ujazdowski,11.html

 

July 14, 2011,  20:00- / Krakow
at Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japonskiej manggha
contact: +48 012 267 2703, 012 267 3753
muzeum@manggha.krakow.pl
http://www.manggha.krakow.pl/wydarzenia/koncerty

July 16, 2011, Sat, 21:30- / Poznan 
in Animator Festival 2011
at Scena na Pietrze
contact: +48 61 850 1655
office@animator-festival.com
http://www.animator-festival.com/ 

http://www.animator-festival.com/index.php?mode=imprezy&action=main&menu=52&id=33&page=&lang=PL