1959-2009 - 50 Years Of Butoh
I am a Butohdancer from
Nagasaki, Japan
Performances 2009:
January, Wed., 28.01.09., 7:30pm, Performamce at HAU1, Stresemannstr.29, Berlin, Festival Politics Of Ecstasy, Open Mic
Sun, 05.04.09, 8:00pm, "Ke-Hei Art Salon No.2", Hoftheater Kreuzberg, Naunynstr. 63, Berlin, www.ke-hei.org
Saturday, 25. April 2009, 8pm and 10pm, in the setting "Night Views Of Bielefeld": Butoh-Dance and Musicperformance at Altstädter Nicolaichurch, Bielefeld
with Minako Seki and Willem Schulz (Cello, Performance)
Sunday, 07.06.2009, 6pm, The serie" Freestyle" presents: Minako Seki and Ingo Reulecke, "differently together", 2 different styles come together or mutually or one above the other or…. dance at Tanzfabrik, Möckernstr. 68, Berlin
Wed., 15.07.09, "Borderless Split Brain", International Dancefestival Bielefeld at Theaterlabor Bielefeld
Minako Seki was born in Nagasaki,
Japan. Since 1985 she danced in Tokyo with the Company
"DanceLoveMachine", with whom she came to Europe in 1986
on an invitation of the Berlin Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
She stayed in Berlin and in 1987 became co-founder of
tatoeba - TÉÂTRE DANSE GROTESQUE , the first Japanese-German
butoh ensemble. She further develops the style of this
group, which amongst other characteristics focuses on
the sleeping potentials in human beings, in 45 productions
as a dancer, choreographer and director. Since
1988 composer Zam Johnson
has musically supported her.
Since 1996 she has focused
more on her work as a director and choreographer where
she has continuously been looking for the friction in
crossing art disciplines. For example, she choreographed
the opera "Endlösung" by Peter
Michael Hamel , worked with the projections
designer and light painter Gustav
Gisiger, with the director Nullo Facchini and his performance company cantabile 2 in Denmark and with muscians as Schiller, N.U. Unruh from Einstürzende Neubauten, Sven Väth, Lacrimosa, Dudu Tucci, Willem Schulz, Elliott Sharp and Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum.
