Kaoru Okumura butoh
2016.11.03: Beyond the Metaphors – Butoh x DeepDream,
in Arts and Machine Learning Summit
at Google Cultural Institute Paris. Sponsored by Google Art and Culture
Kaoru Okumura is a Japanese Butoh artist,
based in Seattle area from 2008.
“Kaoru moves with crane’s grace and silk tenderness, musing with music.”
by Esse
Second Growth @ Bemis Arts Biannual
2016.04.24
photo by (c) Wendy Simons
Hijikata Tatsumi’s memorial 2017 in Seattle
2017.01.21 @ Theatro de la Psychomachia
SHIRANUI
2015.07.05
Photo by Jason Renek
Sampler
[0:00] Butohlet – Credo, quia absurdum
[3:44] Youmiachi Gusa
[7:13] Shadow Flower
Orasho – The Prayers of Nagasaki [highlights]: @ Seattle Butoh Festival 2017
Stage Art: “FatMan” by Yukiyo Kawano. Sound: “We mourn those buried by water and earth” by Virgines Vestales; “Orasho – prayer of hidden Christian” by Joy Von Spain & Vanessa Skantze. 2017.04.09
暗がりからゆっくりと、さまよい出て来る魂。
ゆらゆらと絡まり、ほどける、生まれたばかりの生命体。
胎児たち、または、海の中の生きもののようでした。
未明の世界をさまようタマシイ。演者と音楽だけしかないぶん、くっきりしたストーリーがセリフや背景で説明される演劇よりも、舞踏というのは伝わるときにはとても直接的に伝わるものなのだなあ、と最近やっと腑に落ちるようになってきた。匂いとか音楽とかと同じように、直接伝わってくるカタマリ。
抽象的なものは分かりにくい、と思われがちだけど。
でもそういう共感は、言葉によるよりも、ずっと強くずっとたしかに、深く届く。by Tomozo, http://livinginnw.blogspot.com/2018/02/blog-post_6.html
“KAGIROHI かぎろひ” 1/21/2018 Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial in Seattle
Coming Performance
- June 1, 2023
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ArtWalk
June 1, 2023
outdoor performance with DAIPANbutoh Collective workshop attendees. around the TK artist loft, Seattle WA
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- June 30, 2023
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Summer Festival at YAW Studio
June 30, 2023
Solo, and group works showcase. Seattle, WA
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- July 8, 2023
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Japan Fair @ Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
July 8, 2023 - July 9, 2023 @
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- July 9, 2023
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Japan Fair @ Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
July 8, 2023 - July 9, 2023 @
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- July 30, 2023
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Wondering & Wandering @ Kubota Garden, Seattle
July 30, 2023
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- August 3, 2023
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Wondering & Wandering @ Seattle Japanese Garden
August 3, 2023
4-6:30PM, first Thursday
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