Hello. Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya send you our deep greeting from here Paris.
eX..it!'11 report ---
We just got back to Paris from eX..it!'11 dance exchange project in Brollin castle ( north Germany).
With 8 choreographers and 57 participants from all over the world and 3 musicians, we created final presentation in site specific location in Brollin and performed last weekend 2days. There were various beautiful site for performance such as nature pond area, stone square, sheep stable, old white high ceiling gallery, big hall space, stone made dining hall, etc etc. Each 2 choreographer paired up to collaborate and chose each spot for final performance. Very intensive and intimate time and experiences...
Atsushi collaborated with Butoh dancer Batarita from Hungary and choreograhed to their group in the big hall. In the performance content, there were full of elements like nature, organic life, human, industry, machine, emotion, beauty, natural disaster, human disaster, war, manufestation, loud noise and silent, songs and whispering,laughing and crying, still walking and spiral dance, so on and so on. Wonderful meeting with dancers and choreographers in exchange, in choreography and creation and daily life... Almost every night, we talked talked and danced danced and laughed and cried in the kitchen, at cafe, by the fire circle, under the star...
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| ph by Alicja Biala |
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| ph by Ten Pen Chii Artlabor |
1month intensive JINEN Butoh workshop at Spazio NU----
And in July, as reported in last blog, we made intensive 1 month residency JINEN Butoh workshop in Toscana Italy organized by Spazio NU. It was also full of deep moments with each own body, life, experience, dance, observing, sharing, caring, and so on.
Anyway, we danced and danced and danced in whole July at various location during the project. And we already started planning of this one month project for 2012. We hope we can announce info soon.
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| ph by Lucie |
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| ph by Globe JINEN |
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| ph by Olivier Raymond |
Hiroko concert tour report---
This summer, Hiroko made first concert tour in Poland in collaboration with Japanese musician Kazuya Nagaya who plays Indonesian and Chinese gongs, Japanese Buddhist instruments and Tibetan singing bowls and electric guitar. In 4 cities Szczecin, Warsaw, Krakow and Poznan, we were so glad to meet with Polish audience and also various musicians and artists in the festivals we joined. In the first city Szczecin at Spoiwa Kultury festival (cross- cultural festival ), we played in the former Orthodox church where they had Tibetan monks chant concert, and Ukrainian group of ancient sacred songs day before our concert.
This summer, Hiroko made first concert tour in Poland in collaboration with Japanese musician Kazuya Nagaya who plays Indonesian and Chinese gongs, Japanese Buddhist instruments and Tibetan singing bowls and electric guitar. In 4 cities Szczecin, Warsaw, Krakow and Poznan, we were so glad to meet with Polish audience and also various musicians and artists in the festivals we joined. In the first city Szczecin at Spoiwa Kultury festival (cross- cultural festival ), we played in the former Orthodox church where they had Tibetan monks chant concert, and Ukrainian group of ancient sacred songs day before our concert.
This our concert was named "ashita" which means in Japanese word "tomorrow". Since this contemporary time of the world, we never knows what will happen in next moments. In North Japan, with big pain and suffering, many people lost life, family, many things in one moment by big disaster and nuclear power plant explosion. And still hard situation is keeping on. So the time coming next to today is so precious. We thought deeply about this...
And We have been working on this collaboration album to release. I hope to make announce soon...
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| orthodox church Stara Cerkiew in Szczecin/Poland |
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| hiroko komiya at CSW Warsaw by Mariusz Michalski |
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| Kazuya Nagaya at CSW Warsaw by Mariusz Michalski |
Thank you for reading.
Hiroko and Atsushi
in Paris
