Emiko Agatsuma
魂を震わす舞踏をお届け
我妻 恵美子
Butoh Dancer, Choreographer and Director
Nerima City身体を「からっぽの袋」としてイメージし、水・動植物・感情などを受け入れながら動いていきます。初心者歓迎。自分のペースでリラックスしながら身体の緊張を解放できます。 This is an in-person Butoh workshop. Participants move by imagining the body as an empty vessel, guided by images of water, plants, animals, and emotions. Beginners are welcome to move at their own pace.
SingaporeOpen-air Butoh performance at *SCAPE Outdoor Plaza Butoh meets the outdoors in this special edition of Chaotic Garden — Cosmic Garden, an original creation directed by internationally-acclaimed Butoh dancer and choreographer Emiko Agatsuma.
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Artist Statement
My hometown was hard hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. I was struck by a strong sense of despondency, but I noticed the regenerative power that grows gradually by helping each other. I didn't speak so much when I went there as a volunteer, but I strongly felt their emotion (sadness, anger, regret, loneliness, hopelessness, hope, etc.) that is not to be talked about.
Since then, my working process has changed. I started thinking body experience is more important than knowledge. I want to explore primitive movements in our body that are before languages.
In 1999, I met Butoh and was shocked by the method "invites an image into an empty body and the body is moved by it ". Butoh, born in the 1960s, was driven by a sense of inferiority toward Western culture and doubts about existing values, and succeeded in creating a new expression by looking at Japanese culture. I include the meaning of "erase personal limitation" in the white makeup, moreover, expand the possibility by eliminating the ego.
By being an empty body, I can dance like a baby who doesn't have any language and prejudice.