KaoruOkumura

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"SHIRANUI (Mysterious lights on the sea of Minamata)- World of Woe, the Pure Land 苦界浄土 #2" 5/23/2015, at Georgetown, Seattle
Photographer: Jason Renek, Devilish Photo
Choreography and music arrange by: Kaoru Okumura
Performed by Kaoru Okumura & Aoi Lee
in event "ILLUMINATA Nocturna II: Multimedia Warehouse Masquerade" organized by Esse Quam Videri

Kaoru Okumura is Seattle-based Butoh artist. She has enjoyed performing in Seattle Butoh scenes from 2008.

External Sites:

My YouTube Channel: Seattle Butoh Channel
Blogger: [mainly Japanese with video & photo]
My Flickr! photo: Seattle's scenery, Butoh and other arts in Northwest
[Japanese, with photo] 小暮和代(写真)＆奥村薫(モデル・文) コラボレーション作品集
[Japanese & English] Photo Stories フォトストーリー

Coming Performance

From Performances

Shadow Flower: A trace of an old prostitute, taste of ancient memory, the path she passed, a fixation on the fainting memory, and desperate plea for forgetting these memory, and a flower to be remembered and to be forgotten…

2012.07.07: http://youtu.be/HsBIr5e-gyY [19:29] 1080p HD available. as a part of Noh/Butoh Lecture and Performance at Taoist Studies Institute, Seattle WA

Past performance

please see performance page.