Chicago Premiere Solo Performance

深海の魂
Shinkai no tamashīi

August 3, 8pm
Asian Improv aRts Midwest 

深海に生き続ける死者の魂。
あらゆる波のうねりは彼らの叫び。

The souls of the dead live in the depths of the sea.
Every roar of the waves is their cry.

Workshop and Student Performance

Five day intensive Butoh workshop culminating in a student performance. Dance or movement background not required, but a curiosity for your vulnerable parts is. Full participation recommended.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

When Tadashi Endo is teaching, he offers challenging warm ups, improvisational scores and choreographic work. He gives a deep view into Butoh philosophy and speaks to what Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata were thinking and tells us about their lives. But first he lets the students search for their own Butoh. To quote Kazuo Ohno, “everybody can dance Butoh,” it may be not the Japanese Butoh, but everybody can find their own movements in the sense of Butoh.

This will be Tadashi’s forth visit to Chicago. He has performed  IKIRU- Requiem para Pina Bausch to a sold out show at the Old Town School of Folk Music in 2015 and Fukushima Mon Amour at Columbia College Chicago in 2016. He has led manyb series of sold out workshops at OuterSpace Studios in Wicker Park, including HAUTNAH in 2019.

During this workshop, Tadashi will give you time and space for you to research yourself and your signature movements under his guidance. We will focus on recovering, the space between things, finding new patterns, new imaginations, discovering new sensations,  and encouraging continued growth in each of our bodies. We will create a performance together, where everyone will get solo moments to shine, partner work, and structured group improvisations.

This workshop does build every day, but our lives and schedules may not allow for complete immersion. Come to as many as you can, and we welcome all curious bodies! Student and work/trade volunteer discounts available upon request and availability. 

ACCESSIBILITY

Co-Prosperity is accessible by wheelchair. The gallery has two 5-inch steps that go into the building. One is from the sidewalk leading up to the front door, and the second is 5ft past the front door. There are two temporary ramps that are put out for events, and can be used for wheelchair access. Bar and restrooms are ADA compliant.

About Tadashi Endo

Elève of the great butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, is a Butoh-dancer, choreographer, director of the Butoh-Centre MAMU and artistic director of the Butoh-Festivals MAMU Butoh & Jazz in Göttingen. He has coined his own way of Butoh dance which he calls “Butoh-MA”. MA is a very important word in zen buddhism, which has two meanings: the “emptiness” and “the space between the things”. Butoh-MA is one way to find the invisible visible. He believes the minimum of movements lets the expression of feelings and situations grow to highest intensity. For this work, it is more important to keep the balance between energy, tension and control than to care for the aesthetics of movement.

His dance is a synthesis of theatre, performance and dance. Tadashi Endo expresses the field of tension between ying and yang, male and female, and their everlasting alteration. “He manages to fill that void with a poetic beauty, precision movement and spiritual flavor. It`s like cut grass and cut glass, one smells good and brings back memory, the other cuts into you leaving a scar.” David Carter

Tadashi Endo collaborates with Germany’s most popular film- and opera director DORIS DÖRRIE, as choreographer for the opera Madame Butterfly (Theater am Gärtnerplatz München 2006), for the cinema film HANAMI-KIRSCHBLÜTEN (2007), the opera ADMETO (International Haendel Festival Göttingen and International Festival Edinburgh 2009) and DON GIOVANNI (Hamburgische Staatsoper 2011, 2012). In all these productions Tadashi Endo also appears as a solo dancer.

Since 2009 he is in continuous collaboration with Italy’s prima ballerina assoluta CARLA FRACCI, in “I HAVE A DREAM” (Teatro Massimo/Palermo Sicily 2009), and FUTURISMO (Teatro Nazionale in Rome, Italy 2010).

Tadashi Endo is a guest professor at the Hochschule für Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany, The Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Israel, and at the Nucleo Interdisciplinar des Pesyuisas TeatrUnicamp, University Campinas, Brazil.

Watch an interview here: https://www.routledgeperformancearchive.com/multimedia/video/concerning-butoh-kazuo-ohno-and-respect

深海の魂
_{SHINKAI NO TAMASHII
AUGUST 3, 8PM
Asian Improv aRts Midwest
4875 N ELSTON AVE, CHICAGO}

About Shinkai no tamashīi

Souls in the sea. Refugees, these people fled of
war, desperate situation and hunger. They entered
the boats full of hope to survive, get help and a safe
life. This hope sank into the sea. They lost everything
and finally also their lives. We still mourn in reverence
to the atomic bomb of Hiroshima, we experienced
earth quakes and tsunamis, the super gau of the
atomic plant of Fukushima which taught us fear and
finally this corona pandemic.

Numerous people died through these horrible
events – their bodies are lying on the ground of the
sea, but their souls move on.

What do they tell us, if they could rise again out of the sea???

Tadashi Endo is brought to you by a growing number of community members, in partnership with Sara Zalek, Butoh Curious Chi, Watershed Arts & Ecology, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Asian Arts Midwest Salish Sea Butoh Presenters.