BUTOH CHOREO LAB #3
Demonstration & Short Lecture by IMA TENKO (with Vietnamese, English subtitle)

About IMA TENKO

Born in 1958. Director of Butoh Company Kiraza and Ima Tenko Butoh Studio. In 1980, she was a founding member of Byakkosha. With their breakup in 1994, she became an independent dancer. In 2000, she created the Butoh company Kiraza.

She has given many Butoh performances at historical theaters, temples and shrines in Kyoto. In 2020, she was awarded the National Arts Festival Excellence Prize. Since the opening of KYOTO Butoh-kan in 2016, she has been performing solo works for a long time.

She broke new ground through the exploration of avant-garde Butoh, supported by the “power of Tamafuri (the revitalization of life)” found in the origins of the Japanese arts.

BUTOH CHOREO LAB

The unique form of Butoh was born out of Japan in the 1960s. Today, Butoh is known internationally and there are practitioners all over the world, but as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, opportunities for people to access Butoh have plummeted. In such times, BUTOH CHOREO LAB aims to develop, popularise and pass on Butoh, by sharing Butoh dancers’ thoughts and techniques on choreography from the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio to an online platform.

Credit: Butoh Choreo Lab
Vietnamese subtitle: The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam