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,
currently performing in Seattle area from 2008.

“Kaoru moves with crane’s grace and silk tenderness, musing with music.”
by Esse

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    Second Growth @ Bemis Arts Biannual

    2016.04.24
    photo by (c) Wendy Simons

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    Hijikata Tatsumi’s memorial 2017 in Seattle

    2017.01.21 @ Theatro de la Psychomachia

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    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

Coming Performance

July 26, 2017

  • Private Concert with Butoh, Kaoru Okumura @ Tokyo

    July 26, 2017 @ 8:30 pm - July 27, 2017 12:30 am
    森のテラス、東京調布/仙川, Tokyo Japan

    7月27日（木曜）12:30 - 4:30pm [日本時間]
    緑に囲まれたオープンガーデンにて、音と舞踏のひと時を…
    出演者：奥村薫（シアトル在住舞踏家）他 決まり次第情報を追加いたします。
    オーガナイザー： Reiko A.

    東京・仙川「森のテラス」オープンガーデンにて
    http://www.moritera.com/tokyo/tokyo-moritera.htm

July 27, 2017

  • Private Concert with Butoh, Kaoru Okumura @ Tokyo

    July 26, 2017 @ 8:30 pm - July 27, 2017 12:30 am
    森のテラス、東京調布/仙川, Tokyo Japan

    7月27日（木曜）12:30 - 4:30pm [日本時間]
    緑に囲まれたオープンガーデンにて、音と舞踏のひと時を…
    出演者：奥村薫（シアトル在住舞踏家）他 決まり次第情報を追加いたします。
    オーガナイザー： Reiko A.

    東京・仙川「森のテラス」オープンガーデンにて
    http://www.moritera.com/tokyo/tokyo-moritera.htm

August 26, 2017

  • Arts in the Garden @ Bellevue Botanical Garden

    August 26, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    Bellevue Botanical Garden, 12001 Main St, Bellevue, WA 98005, USA

    Kogut Butoh at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, as a part of "Arts in the Garden".
    @ Yao Garden 1pm – 2pm.