Sound & Butoh Night: Sound & Butoh Night 3 with Yumiko Yoshioka (JP/DE) 10/11/13

Sound & Butoh Night is an event combining live music, performances, theatre, dance and video. The 3^rd edition of Sound & Butoh Night in Amsterdam is taking place in the Theatre de Camleon on November 10^th, presents a group performance “Party Animals” by “Re-United Now-Here”, solo performances by Sakurako (cello Christian Tan), Tashi Iwaoka, a duet JuJuMechanix from NYC and a special guest, legendary butoh master Yumiko Yoshioka (JP/DE) performing live in Amsterdam for the first time.

Born in Tokyo Yumiko Yoshioka is one of the pioneer female dancers who for the first time performed butoh outside of Japan. Yumiko Yoshioka is a world famous art director, choreographer, dancer working and teaching her method worldwide. Since 1988 she resides in Germany, where in 1995 she founded the art-formation group “Ten Pen Chii art labor” together with visual artist Joachim Manger (DE) and music composer Zam Johnson (USA).

“Butoh (dance) for me activates divergent body energies that are usually not seen or permitted in our daily life. In other words, as our body is a receptacle of time, we can evoke its forgotten memories through dance. Butoh has the intensity to trigger that process, because it creates heat through friction and cold through stillness. The transformations and concentrations of dancing break up the eggshell of form, melt down our armor of ego, as our stiff cells and sealed memories float in the primal liquid of time.”

“Re-United Now-Here” is a nomadic artistic collaborative initiative led by conceptual/visual artist and performer Inga Cholmogorova (butoh stage name Sakurako). A group performance “Party Animals” is a result of the collaboration with the participants of the intense butoh and organic movement workshop “Body Resonance” led by Yumiko Yoshioka, the performance concept and directing/choreography by Inga Cholmogorova.

Dorr open: 20:30, Performance: 21:00, entrance 10 eur.

Tashi Iwaoka