Chicago Premiere
Tadashi Endo Solo Performance

August 3, 8pm

Asian Improv aRts Midwest, 4875 N. Elston Ave, Chicago
doors open at 7:30pm

Souls in the sea. Refugees, these people fled of war, desperate situations 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 earthquakes 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 would they tell us, if they could rise again out of the Sea?

Tadashi Endo, born 1947 in Peking, China, is of Japanese Nationality. He is a Butoh-dancer, choreographer, director of the Butoh-Centre MAMU and artistic director of the Butoh-Festivals MAMU Butoh & Jazz in Göttingen. After his study as a theater director at the famous Max-Reinhardt- Seminar in Vienna, he performed in collaboration with jazz musicians, and in 1989 he met Kazuo Ohno who already then realized a deep relationship between Endo’s dance and the Butoh-dance. Since then, Tadashi Endo developed his movements to that aesthetic and expressive dance, a synthesis of theater, performance, and dance. He succeeds to express the field of tension between yin and yang, male and female and their everlasting alteration. He is the master of being “in between”, that is Butoh – MA

Asian Improv aRts Midwest on 4875 N Elston (east side of the street, just north of Lawrence) is located in the North Mayfair / Albany Park area. CTA Bus #81 Jefferson Park Blue Line services the neighborhood, with the nearest stop a 3min walk/roll away. CTA Bus #78 Harlem services the neighborhood, with the nearest stop a 14min walk/roll away.

Parking: Artists may park in the small lot directly behind the building or use street parking. Note that the side streets are one-ways and provide a free option. Parking on Elston is metered.

The space is ADA accessible, meaning there are ramps and seating. Please let us know if you have particular needs so we can

A note from AIRMW about protecting the special floor: All shoes, footwear, and wheels should be clean of dirt, mud, liquid, and grease. A shower and entryway are provided to clean things off. No rosin, tack, glitter, powder, or liquids should be used on the floor. If needing to mark the floor for spacing, only use Painters Tape. When possible, artists are asked to dry mop after using the space. Note that in Japanese culture, it is respectful to remove shoes when entering a space such as this, but it is not a requirement.