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Yuko Kaseki

Butoh Dancer, Improvise Performer, choreographer

About Me

Yuko Kaseki founded Dance company cokaseki with Marc Ates since 1995 and have been involved in various projects with musicians and visual artist. Solos and ensemble performaces are performed throughout Europe, Japan, Canada and the USA. These works are based on Butoh dance and western contemporary dance and performance technique to create concise and precise dreamlike dance theater. cokaseki has developed its own rich choreographic vocabulary that is rhythmic and elegant – it follows the path, desperate existence exposes tragicomedy in dense time and space to reveal a kaleidoscope of stories. she recently interested to perform more voice work and improvisation with musician...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- To (untitled portrait and ocean) Yuko Kaseki, Luigi Coppola, Isak Immanuel +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ June 12-14 at 8pm New Langton Arts 1246 Folsom St. (bet.8th & th st.) San Francisco +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A meeting of performance and visual theatre exploring the frailties of identity, travel, and the gravity of location. The work is pieced together by an international collaboration of artists from three different countries: Yuko Kaseki (Japanese Butoh dancer and physical theatre artist based in Berlin working with cokaseki and inkBoat), Luigi Coppola (director of the Italian based performing arts company LOSS), and Isak Immanuel (interdisciplinary performance and visual artist and founder of the Floor of Sky series in San Francisco). With musical and performance for video guests contributing from Taiwan, Japan, and the San Francisco Bay Area.Combining multiple site/city specific works for video with live performance, "To" creates a series of theatrical tableaux taking apart and re-piecing the quotidian, bizarre, and fragile ways in which people meet, miss, mirror, glimpse, erase, and trace one another.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/7/2007
Band Website: cokaseki.com, youtube.com/user/cokaseki
Band Members: performed with musician such as antonis anissegos, axel doerner, aki takase, andrea neumann, annette krebs, barbara buchholz, bo-sung kim, clare cooper, crayton thomas, degenerate art ensemble, faun fables, rova saxophone quartet, sparky quano, jeff gburek, sabine worthmann, matthias hermann, suit, pink twins, hiromichi sakamoto, akira ando, johaness wallmann, margarete huber, robert rutmann, shehzad ismaily, sheila bosco and more and more... dancer & performer such as marc ates, shinichi iova koga, haruko nishimura, ximena garnica, katrin geller, minako seki, isak immanuel, paige sorvillo, tanya calamoneri, sten rudstrom, takako suzuki, nicola mascia, yuri nagaoka, seisaku, kinya tsuruyama, miki sato, keiko ninomiya, takuya ishide, yo xakabe, midoh ohmura and more and more and more
Influences: sun and moon, marc!, anzu furukawa, loulou & kiki, yayoi kusama, louise bourgeois, mari mori, unica zurn, hyakken uchida, henry darger, tatsumi hijikata, dogen, love and hate
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Workshop on June 23-24 in Los Angeles

Workshop on June 23-24 at Farmlabat 7-10pmhttp://www.farmlab.org/
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Wed, 21 May 2008 08:57:00 PST

Improvisation Workshop on August 18-24 in Greece

MUSIC VILLAGE 2008Agios Lavrentios, Mount Pilion, Greece18 -24 AugustButoh Dance Improvisation workshop"Time bites Poem" Tutoring, co-ordination of dancersYuko Kaseki .Improvising in MusicTutoring, en...
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Tue, 13 May 2008 07:35:00 PST

Workshop on May 23-25 in San Francisco

Time Bites Poem, a Butoh Dance Improvisation Workshop" taught by Yuko Kaseki (Japan/Berlin)"This course starts with body training - based on Noguchi Gymnastics and elements of Tai-chi - to reach relax...
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Tue, 13 May 2008 07:32:00 PST

kastanien baum

yesterday i came back on i found! my kastanien tree is full of green and white flower starts openingi did't miss this beautiful view from my window, once a year white candles on green cake.how many ti...
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:41:00 PST

8 day butoh-improvisation workshop in berlin

8 Day Butoh - Improvisation Workshop in BerlinMoment of Existence  Me·Mentowith Yuko Kaseki2  4 & 6  10 May 2008 at 11 - 16 hLocation:ada77Schönhauser Allee 73, 2.Hof, 1.Stock10437 Berlin-Prenzlaue...
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:59:00 PST

Butoh-Improvisation Workshop in L.A.

Body Weather Laboratory hostsButoh Dance Improvisation workshopTime bites Poemwith Yuko KasekiSunday, March 30, 1:00PM - 4:00PMElectric Lodge1416 Electric Ave, Venice CA 90291$20.00 / Free parkingRegi...
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:35:00 PST

ocean is blue blue

yes ocean is blueand today my eye is bluesalty water waves holding me pushing mehardly and softlyi am here something to face streching arm but still far
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:37:00 PST

west to east

tomorrow i will fly to asiai will touch different air, different landscape, different eyeswhat it mean to me, i will see...something near something very far
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:05:00 PST

back and go, here and there

come back where i startednow i know she is no more exist where i wasgood bye
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:17:00 PST

Premiere Nov.6th "Saigo no Honoo-Timeless Kaidan" in NY

GARNICA LEIMAY AcTS LAB - PERFORMANCES:November 6-7 (Tues/Wed) at 8 PM, November 8 (Thurs) at 7:30 PMPre-show tea: November 6-7 (Tues/Wed) 7:30 PM / November 8 (Thurs) 7:00PMPost-performance NYBF Cel...
Posted by Yuko Kaseki on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:16:00 PST