Female Perspectives on Butoh: Unspelled by Yuko Kaseki
Yuko Kaseki
NEW YORK BUTOH FESTIVAL 2009: PERFORMANCE
”Order of language spilling spelled and un-spelled voice, spine, fingernails, shadow broken a part and puzzled landscape in body breathing the air between observer, past and I and spelling”
Unspelled is a solo dance performance confronting the landscape of the body before its configurations of language or orientation. Playing in deconstruction and construction of self-image, territory of emotion, sexuality, and geometrical weight, the dance repeats death and birth, rhythmically piling up memory and cutting out moments of silence.
Documentation
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Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2009.4004.10ID number
4004.1XYear Created
2009Date Created
20091114Performance dates
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Space / Location
Premiere Venue
DNA11/14/2009 - 11/15/2009
280 Broadway, NY, NY
Premiere Venue specific dates
- 14/11/2009
- 15/11/2009
Choreographer/Performer: Yuko Kaseki,
Directorial Advisor:Marc Ates and Isak Immanuel,
Music: Colleen, Margaret Leng Tan, Toki-Meki, Science Lighting
Design: Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa
Official Festival Photographer: Yana Kraeva, Florence Baratay;
Official Festival Videographer: Shige Moriya, Bleakley Mcdowell
The NYBF project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The CAVE NY Butoh Festival performances are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts. CAVE performance season is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. CAVE’s commissioned project for the NY Butoh Festival is supported by the Asian American Arts Alliance JP Morgan Chase SOAR Program.
Partners: National Museum of Dance, Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam, New York Dances, WNYC.
Special thanks to Tanya Calamoneri, Ken Watt and CAVE;
Festival Publicist: Jonathan Slaff