Congress of Butoh Souls at Sotheby’s Maison, Hong Kong
A 4- day festival ( Tue 14 - Frid 17January 2025)
If art is a casualty of war, then Butoh would have been the spark, which flickers and glows, creating the movement of new life, rose from the ruins of the spirit of avant-garde and forever refusing to fade into oblivion.
Over 4 days in January 2025, Hong Kong will witness an unprecedented congress of butoh dancing at the new Sotheby’s Maison, an initiative and partnership between Nicolas Chow, chairman at Sotheby’s, the Xevarion Institute and Dr. Damien Charrieras at SCM.
We are delighted to have legendary Butoh dancers Tadashi Endo, Ima Tenko, Yasuo Fukurozaka, Masami Yurabe with Miwako Inagaki, Yuri Nagaoka and Seisaku to participate in this festival.
A comprehensive exhibition at the Catalyst gallery and the Sotheby’s Grotto will take place during the festival period, with historical artefacts, photographic, cinematographic and sculptural remnants / memento mori displayed to the Hong Kong public for the first time, in association with the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive at the Keio University (Tokyo), curated by Takashi Morishita. The festival will kick off at the School of Creative Media (CityU HK) where films screenings of significant archival materials will accompany the artists’ seminar.
Congress of Butoh Souls at Sotheby’s absorbs the artificial lights that defines this city, through the movements of this collection of renowned dancers, reflects and projects to us Hong Kong’s own history of busy forgetting, but not forgotten, beauty and aspirations.
HA DÔ at the 10th Theatre Olympics in Budapest, Hungary
Tadashi Endo and Yvette Bozsik Company are presenting Ha DÔ at the 10th Theatre Olympics.
Tadashi Endo has presented his work HA DÔ in Hungary in 2019, after Brazil and Germany, performed by the then 25 year old Yvette Bozsik Company. Their joint premiere was the result of three years of collaboration between Tadashi Endo and the Yvette Bozsik Company, after butoh workshops in Budapest.
Click here to go to the 10th Theatre Olympics website or click here to go to the inviting theatre (National Dance Theatre of Hungary, Budapest).
SASAYAKI (FROM A WHISPER TO CRY) - A Butoh dance theatre created by Tadashi Endo
SASAYAKI (FROM WHISPER TO CRY)
Director: Tadashi Endo
Dancers: Tadashi Endo and three international dancers.
SASAYAKI means whisper.
With this piece women’s life in difficult situations like war, pandemic, fear, and isolation should be represented in dance.
CORONAVIRUS LETTER TO HUMANITY
The earth wispered
but you did not hear. The earth spoke
but you did not listen. The earth screamed
but you turned her off. And so I was born.
I was not born to punish you I was born to awaken you. The earth cried for help...
PREMIERE at the JUNGES THEATER GÖTTINGEN
Friday, Jan. 07, 2022 at 08:00 p.m.
FURTHER PERFORMANCES
Saturday, Jan. 08, 2022 at 08:00 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 09, 2022 at 08:00 p.m.
Venue: JUNGES THEATER GÖTTINGEN, Bürgerstraße 15, 37073 Göttingen
Email: kasse@junges-theater.de
Tel.: +49 (0)551 49501-5
HAUTNAH performance with Tadashi Endo and Marigia Maggipinto and particitpants of the workshop
Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 at 08:00 p.m.
Butoh Centrum MAMU, Geismar Landstr. 95 , 37083 Göttingen
Supported by Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.
Intense-Butoh-Workshop 3.-12. DECEMBER with Tadashi Endo and Marigia Maggipinto
Intense Butoh workshop with Tadashi Endo and Marigia Maggipinto
Start Friday, Dec. 03, 2021
End Sunday Dec. 12, 2021
Finish this year with a nice experience in dance, especially butoh dance in combination with dance theatre from Pina Bausch! Tadashi chose this combination because Kazuo Ohno and Pina Bausch were good friends and due to Kazuo Ohno we got to know Pina personally. This December workshop is dedicated to these two amazing artists and our beloved friends and teachers Kazuo Ohno and Pina Bausch. We are happy to inform you that Ms. Marigia Maggipinto, who was a member of Pina's Tanztheater Wuppertal for 9 years, will be our guest teacher in December.Please register in time, but the number of participants is limited!!
Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 at 08:00 p.m. performance HAUTNAH with Tadashi Endo, Marigia Maggipinto and participants of the workshop.
Butoh Centrum MAMU, Geismar Landser. 95, 37083 Göttingen
(please book tickets via phone: 0551-7906245 because the number of audience is limited.)
Supported by Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.
HAUTNAH performance with Tadashi Endo and Günter „Baby“ Sommer (perc)
Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 at 08:00p.m.
Butoh Centrum MAMU, Geismar Landstr. 95 , 37083 Göttingen
Supported by Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.
Weekend-Workshop 12.-14. NOVEMBER with Tadashi Endo and Günter „Baby“ Sommer (perc)
weekend workshop with Tadashi Endo and Günter „Baby“ Sommer (perc)
Start Friday, Nov. 12
End Sunday Nov. 14
Günter Baby Sommer is one of the master musicians of contemporary European jazz. He belongs to the circle of extraordinary drummers that developed throughout the improvised music scene a highly individual playing and built up an unmistakable?
Born in Dresden in 1943, Sommer studied at the Hochschule für Musik „Carl Maria von Weber“. Then his musical contributions the most important jazz groups of the GDR like the Ernst-Ludwig-Petrowksy-Trio, Zentralquartett and the Ulrich Gumpert Workshopband made it possible for him to get involved in the international scene. Thus, Sommer not only worked in trio with Wadada Leo Smith and Peter Kowald but took part in fascinating meetings with Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker and Cecil Taylor. His solowork enabled him for intense collaborations with writers as Günter Grass.
Sommer’s discography comprises around 100 records. As a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden he has an influence on the professional imparting of the contemporary jazz to the next generations.
Butoh Centrum MAMU, Geismar Landstr. 95, 37083 Göttingen
Supported by Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.
Tadashi Endo interviewed on television cultural channel Itaú Cultural.
2 Interview with Tadashi Endo and television cultural channel Itaú Cultural (Márcia Abos) in Brazil during Tadashi’s tour in 2019.