UTSUSHI
The legendary choreographer Ushio Amagatsu who introduced Europe to butoh nearly 45 years ago, has since championed this very special Japanese dance form and built a solid fan base worldwide. While he passed away this March, his much-celebrated company Sankai Juku will be making their Turkey debut at the festival with Utsushi.
Created at the special request of international festivals willing to present Sankai Juku in various features, Utsushi is composed of excerpts from the repertory of the company, reworked and restaged by Amagatsu in order to constitute a work of its own as the quintessence of his art from the last 45 years.
As Raimund Hoghe puts it: ‘Utsushi is much more than a compilation. Ushio Amagatsu creates a breath-taking dialogue between the beauty of his work and the beauty of nature, the sounds of nature and the composed music, the dance and the wind, the floor and the sky, the stars over our heads and the fire in front of us. With Utsushi, Amagatsu opens a new door – and we can see and feel the beauty of life.’
Lasts approx. 70’ w/o interval
Age Recommendation: 13+
The legendary choreographer Ushio Amagatsu who introduced Europe to butoh nearly 45 years ago, has since championed this very special Japanese dance form and built a solid fan base worldwide. While he passed away this March, his much-celebrated company Sankai Juku will be making their Turkey debut at the festival with Utsushi.
Created at the special request of international festivals willing to present Sankai Juku in various features, Utsushi is composed of excerpts from the repertory of the company, reworked and restaged by Amagatsu in order to constitute a work of its own as the quintessence of his art from the last 45 years.
As Raimund Hoghe puts it: ‘Utsushi is much more than a compilation. Ushio Amagatsu creates a breath-taking dialogue between the beauty of his work and the beauty of nature, the sounds of nature and the composed music, the dance and the wind, the floor and the sky, the stars over our heads and the fire in front of us. With Utsushi, Amagatsu opens a new door – and we can see and feel the beauty of life.’
Lasts approx. 70’ w/o interval
Age Recommendation: 13+
Choreography and Design Ushio Amagatsu
Assistant Director Semimaru
Music YAS-KAZ, Yoichiro Yoshikawa
Stage Manager Keiji Morita
Light Design Satoru Suzuki
Sound Design Junko Miyazaki
Co-Producers CNCDC Chateauvallon (France), Sankai Juku (Tokyo, Japan)
Valuable Contributions Shiseido, Japan Government Agency for Cultural Relations
Dancers Sho Takeuchi, Akihito Ichihara, Ichiro Hasegawa, Dai Matsuoka, Norihito Ishii, Shunsuke Momoki
USHIO AMAGATSU (31.12.1949 – 25.03.2024)
Sankai Juku was created in 1975 under the direction of Ushio Amagatsu who belongs to the second generation of butoh dancers. Butoh transcended the reactions of the post-Hiroshima generation in Japan, in the sixties, and launched the basis of a radical approach of Japanese contemporary dance.
For Amagatsu, Butoh is not merely a new technique or an academic style, but it tends to articulate the body language in order to find, in the depth of each human being, a common sense, a serene universality, and sometimes cruelty or brutality.
Amagatsu’s personal quest is based on a ‘Dialogue with Gravity’, which is also the title of the book he published in 2001 at Actes Sud Edition.
Before practising butoh, he trained at the Classic and Modern Dance School in Tokyo. In 1975, he began a series of workshops in order to find the dancers for his newborn company, which was then known as an only-men company. Sankai Juku literally means the ‘workshop of the mountain and sea’ in reference to the two basic elements of Japan topology. Sankai Juku then began to perform in Japan in rather small and avant-garde theatres. The group’s first major production was Kinkan Shonen in 1978. It revealed the new artistic direction taken by Amagatsu who has given Butoh a clearer and more transparent image, more telluric too. The strength in each individual expression, in each movement, in each inside emotion nourishes itself from the origins of the world to show a passionate apprehension of life and death and universality.
In 1980, Sankai Juku was invited for the first time to Europe, to the Nancy Festival. Since then, the company has toured throughout Europe, South America, United States and Australia, and whole Asia, from its home base in Tokyo.
Outside of his company, Amagatsu created in 1988 with five western dancers a piece called Fifth. He staged the opera Trois Soeurs by Peter Eotvos at the Opéra de Lyon (1998) and Paris (Théâtre du Chatelet), Brussels (Théâtre de la Monnaie) and Vienne (Wiener Festwochen). He also staged the latest opera production Lady Sarashina, again by Peter Eotvos, at Opéra de Lyon and Opéra Comique in Paris. Amagatsu also choreographed a solo piece for the Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa.
Etkinlik kapı açılış saati: 19:00
Etkinlik başlangıç saati: 20:00
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