Orasho – The Prayers of Nagasaki: Kaoru Okumura @ Seattle International Butoh Festival 2017. Shoreline Community Collage. Apr 9, 2017
Movement: Kaoru Okumura, Yukiyo Kawano
Stage Art: “FatMan” by Yukiyo Kawano.
Sound: “We mourn those buried by water and earth” by Virgines Vestales, 2011; “Orasho – prayer of hidden Christian” by Joy Von Spain & Vanessa Skantze
Soundscape Design, Choreography: Kaoru Okumura
In Seattle Butoh Festival 2012
Koyasan Shomyo Chanting: Rev. Yuren Tai
Movement: Kaoru Okumura with Aoi Lee & Yoshiko Higashimura
Art Design: Yoshiko Higashimura
“Miserere Mei” – Danse Perdue @ Seattle Butoh
Festival 2011
2011.06.04. Butoh: Danse Perdue (Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe, Kaoru Okumura); sound: Joy von Spain and Masaki Satsu; at Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA.
2011.04.09. Butoh: Danse Perdue (Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe, Kaoru Okumura, Helen Thorsen);
Sound: Joy von Spain and Sioux City Pete; video by benj cameron
Irruptions: Ankoku Butoh Ritual & Sound at The Chapel
Butoh: Danse Perdue (Alex Ruhe, Vanessa Skantze, Kaoru Okumura)
Sound: noisepoetnobody / loopool / Joy Von Spain
Sep 18th 2010, at The Good Shepherd Center
The tree of sacrifice – July 2010
Music by Jenny, Movement by Kaoru and Lugh.
Jul. 12, 2010 @ Rattlesnake Lake, WA
Daily Butoh Dance #10, Apr. 22, 2009
in a Japanese style room in my parents’ house. This is my last stay there, for I’m executing their legacy. Within a few days this property will be handed over to a new owner…
Soriah with Ashkelon Sain, Danse Perdue with Kaoru Okumura
OLYMPIA: Friday, January 15th 2009, 8 pm or 9 pm? “An Ankoku Butoh ritual performance journey”
@ the Hall of the Woods, Olympia 3712 Sapp Rd. SW Olympia, WA