Upcoming
S45 Project
In response to Merce Cunningham's Suite For Five (1956)
Premier: October 19-22, 2023 at 7:30pm at SITE/less (Chicago)
UPCOMING
Intensive WS at Salish Sea Butoh Festival Summer 2023
Workshop Dates: August 19-20, 2023
About Salish Sea Butoh Festival
ongoing
Whenever Wherever Festival
Since 2009, Tokyo (Japan)
ABOUT
Body Arts Laboratory (BAL), the first artists-run organization for dance artists in Tokyo was founded in 2009 by Kota Yamazaki, for which Yamazaki continues to serve as a director. BAL organizes the Whenever Wherever Festival (wwfes) with the intention of creating a platform where body-based artists from different disciplines and backgrounds can meet, exchange and converse. The festival’s various experimental programs curated, proposed and conducted by artists are presented in flexible and various formats. These programs include experimental laboratories, workshops, performances, installations, and round table discussions that facilitate artists’ process-oriented practices and dialogues among artists and with a public.
Next Festival is scheduled to be held from the mid-January through the mid- February of 2024 across various locations in Minato-ku, Tokyo
Ongoing
Becoming Invisible City (BIC) Project
Started in 2019
ABOUT
In Becoming Invisible City (BIC) Project, Yamazaki with fellow dance artists reserach and explore new body-based activies, practices and performances in a public space in a city. BIC project was conducted in Shibuya and Tamachi in Tokyo in 2019, and plans to continue in different cities and locations.
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