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"JINEN"
(60-70
minutes)
This
performance is an improvisational dance. And it is based on Atsushi
Takenouchi's impressions of the moment, formulated from the people around
him, the space, the air, the climate and energetic mood of the
surroundings and spirit of the moment.
Having had dancing tour in the
various nature stage in Japan (1996-1999) in order to face to the origin
of it, he had encountered very native Japan which was ancient but still
alive, being hidden in the each lands, climates, peoples, music, customs,
languages and the other localities. It probably is the source of a myriad
of gods. He has absorbed it directly during this travel of more than 3
years. And now his stages have been expanded to the world with no bound
endlessly.
He feels that dancing in harmony with nature has brought
back the memories, which were sleeping, in his DNA. He uses the memories
of once being a tree, grass, animal, wind, soil, fire or water in his
dance. He also dances on the stages of theaters and halls, feeling the
life of the earth and harmonizing with the air and the
environment.
"The body is a container for one soul, which cannot be
changed by anything." Dancing with those bodies is a common culture for
all human beings. Performing this primitive dance in the space of nature
where people have gathered together since ancient time, where music and
dance were born from prayer, is an important ceremony which traces where
we came from and where we are going..
Butoh improvisation : Atsushi
Takenouchi
Music : live music , collaboration with musician, or no
sound, or with just natural sound from the space.
PHOTO by Yayoi Ogata (1,3,4)
Koji Fukunaga(2)
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