Globe “JINEN” 

Atsushi Takenouchi
JINEN BUTOH DANCE

photo by Koji Fukunaga- ATSUSHI TAKENOUCHI PROFILE
Joined butoh dance company „Hoppo-Butoh-ha“ in Hokkaido in 1980. His last performance with thecompany "Takazashiki"(1984) was worked on by butoh-founder Tatsumi Hijikata. Atsushi has started his
own „Jinen Butoh“ since 1986 and created solo works „Itteki“, „Ginkan“ as a universal expression ofnature, earth, and ancient times and impressions of the moment, meeting with people and environment.
He made 3 year “JINEN” tour project throughout Japan for 600 sitespecific improvisations (1996-1999).
During this time, he started to be inspired by a spirit of the universe of Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno.
Since 2002, he has been mainly based in Europe, working on Butoh dance collaboration project withdancers and actors in France, Poland, U.S.A and other countries. Joining in festival such as Avignon
festival, Paris Butoh festival, NY Butoh festival, he has been presenting his solo piece. At the same time,
he also collaborates with film. The recent work in Alaska and Hawaii, “Ridden by nature” environmental
art film will be completed soon.
Group works &Collaboration work
”Koe”(Paris,NY/2003),“Gen”(Paris,NY,Warsaw/2004,2005), “U-Pipe”(Italy/2007,2009),“8Seasons”(France 2008,2010), “Soumatoh”(France 2010).
Solo works“JINEN”(1995-2011),“Stone”(1999-2010), “Tenmon”(2003-2010),“Gekkai” (2004-2008), “Ki ZaMu”(2005-2010),“Hane no Ki” (2010-2011),“ Thousand Drops, Thousand Flowers” (2011-2012)
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photo by Studio VALOS

Jinen is an old Japanese word. Its meaning encompasses ALL that is even larger than nature.
In the West, “Man” exists above “Nature”, and maintains and protects it. Above Man, there is“God”. In other words, there is a separation between Nature, Man, and God. Jinen expresses theperception of the universe before such a separation occurred. In ALL things there lives god. God
is the “Flow of the River of the Universe” that embraces the sun and moon, and the earth that is
the origin of the birthing of all Nature including Man. God lives within man, plants, animals,
even in man-made things like houses. Jinen is the word that describes the universe, it’s origin
and natural course. All things connect to this river, and are part of the river of Jinen.
Man generally receives beautiful forms from Nature, such as the plants or animals. However,many forces of nature, such as huge earthquakes that I have experienced myself, destroy people,
organisms and nature. This is the breath of this planet. This is also the swirl of the River of the
Universe that embraces all life and death, light and dark.
This is Jinen. There is nothing Man can do. All that I was able to do after the earthquake was tolive with the people who had encountered live and death, and to pray and dance with them.
Inside Jinen, the helpless life force embrace life and death, feel that even such life and death areconnected to all things, and dance a prayer. This view of nature has already existed in the art
forms created by ancient people. Every life form performs the dance of life and death by being
alive. All things are dancing with Jinen.
Jinen Butoh is to join together with all the life that are already dancing, to dance with the flowof the universe that is Jinen. We remove the wall of consciousness that perceives dance as theindividual “I” dancing. We are dancing with, and are danced by, the Jinen, accepting all theenvironment and conditions around us as Jinen.

Atsushi Takenouchi

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- SOLO WORKS CATALOG -“STONE”
Premiere 1999:

Korea and Japan Dance Festival(Theater ZERO, Seoul)Time:[70 minutes]- I am a stone, just a fragment of the cosmos.This performance is developed from Atsushi Takenouchi’s experience through dance andperformance in natural setting of mountains, seas, fields and forests across the countryside forthree and a half years. A stone is formed a long time ago, it is born from the earth, and a stoneholds plant’s seeds and the small creatures and the carcass of the animals. Taking root, a tree
grows up into a big tall tree with the sunshine and the nourishment from the earth. Just a single
small stone can provide a proof that shows links between everything in this world. Atsushi

STONE - photo by Yayoi Ogata

dances the past, and the future of this small stone's life.
Choreography, Butoh:
Music:

Atsushi Takenouchi
Hiroko Komiya ( live music by natural materials water, stone, bells, bamboo) and CD(MD).

Lighting:

one person (local staff OK)

Sound:

one person (local staff OK)

Art:

Dancing with a local stone is important concept in this performance. Local stone is arranged on
the black box on the stage center.

“ITTEKI” [ONE DROP]
Premiere 1995:

The 2nd Osaka Dance Experience(Osaka Torii Hall, Osaka)Time:[70 minutes]

ITTEKI - photo by Koji Fukunaga

In our days, if this country Japan were a puddle, I myself might be a single drop of water falling
into it. Ripples appear, interfere each other, create various forms, and disappear to the infinite.
In my lifetime, I feel I have encountered four impressive drops of water; a child, a woman, aman, and an old person. Four people, or just a single one? Or a mysterious image that might
embody them all? Those four drops are what I am seeking for in my dance. As a drop holding
day and night inside me, I would like to fall into this puddle.

Choreography, Butoh:
Music:

Atsushi Takenouchi
Hiroko Komiya (live music by bells, stone, percussion, and voice ) and CD(MD)Lighting:

one person (local staff OK)

Sound:

one person (local staff OK)

Art:

One water pond in the center. The drop of water will be dripping onto small pond duringperformance. So with the lighting onto the pond and water, we can see beautiful reflection on
the dancer's body during performance.

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“TENMON”
Premiere 2002:

The 3rd Paris Butoh Festival(Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree, Paris)Time:[60 minutes]
The performance “TENMON” composed of two elements. One is the dance itself as a
momentary art which appears and vanishes in a twinkling. The other is the transition of dance

TENMON - photo by M. Tsuruta

which has been made through the years while one dancer performed it repeatedly.
TENMON means dripping water (TEN) and expanding shape of an arc (MON) on the water. Just
like a movement of dance, it exists only for a moment. TENMON also means one drop (TEN) of
ink on a piece of paper and various figures (MON) spreading from it. As the time passes, thefigures grow more and more. It is a trace of transition, trace of movement, trace of dance.
In “TENMON” performances, the right and left side of the stage show contrast like men andwomen, or sun and moon. The center of the stage is held as a space for life and death.
Choreography, Butoh:
Music:

Atsushi Takenouchi
CD music composed by Kensuke Mela,
Live music by Hiroko Komiya (bells, percussion, xaphoon and voice)

Lighting:

one person (local staff OK)

Sound:

one person (local staff OK)

Art:

One-meter diameter 2 water ponds in the right & the left front of the stage as Yin and Yang.
And arrange 2 paper screen made by Japanese paper over the ponds.

“GEKKAI” [MOON SEA]
Premiere 2003:

The 4th Paris Butoh Festival(Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree, Paris)

Time:[65minutes]

GEKKAI - photo by Emmanuel Sandorfi

Moon and women had a same origin in the past. With moon, women breathed, made ceremony
with singing, gave birth all the life of the earth. The mother earth created mountains, trees,
animals and men. The time has changed cruelly. The power of domination confined women,
and all the life. Waiting for the last moment of life, women get insanity. Insanity in prison,
insanity of mother with lost baby, insanity of women with lost life, insanity of despondency anddespair with lost love, lost humanity, lost creation. The insanity of women is a cry and blood of
the earth. In the shadow of the moon light, insane women purify with silence.

Choreography, Butoh:
Music:

Atsushi Takenouchi
Hiroko Komiya (percussion, voice)

Lighting:

one person (local staff OK)

Sound:

one person (local staff OK)Art:

One feather will be hung from the ceiling. Moon musk is hung in the corner. Set up the materialon the ceiling bar for making paper snow.

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“EMOTION SEED”
Premiere 2004:

The 5th Paris Butoh Festival(Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree, Paris)

EMOTION SEED - photo by Yayoi

Time:[60 minutes]

The Emotion moves the physical body from deep within. Like a seed, the beginning of anemotion exists long before its maturing; its expression. It grows in the dark infinitely, andnurtures itself from the source of human memory. Considered insignificant in today’s society,the body can only truly be swayed when the emotion is honestly spontaneous. If not, it merely
explodes and further gives rise to chaos.

Choreography, Butoh:
Music:

Atsushi Takenouchi
Hiroko Komiya (percussion, voice)Jean C. Dussin (guitar, vocal)

Lighting:

one person (local staff OK)

Sound:

one person (local staff OK)Art:

Art installation with seed, natural material on the floor and from the ceiling. Art design by
Ludovic de Valon.

- SOLO IMPROVISATION WORK “ J I N E N ” [50-70 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 thesurroundings 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 otherlocalities. It probably is the source of a myriad of gods. He has absorbed it directly during this travel of morethan 3 years. And now his stages have been expanded to the world with no bound endlessly. He feels thatdancing in harmony with nature has brought back the memories, which were sleeping, in his DNA. He uses
BREATHING HERITAGE
photo by Yayoi Ogata

the memories of once being a tree, grass, animal, wind, soil, fire or water in his dance. He also dances on thestages 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 importantceremony 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.

Location:

inside space at the stage, hall, building, out side spot like nature location, local characteristic
location, etc.

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- GROUP WORKS CATALOG “KOE”
Premiere 2003:

The 4th Paris Butoh Festival(Paris, Theatre du Lierre)

KOE - photo b
byy Richard GreeneTime:[60 minutes]“’KOE’ means voice, and our voice is a hidden dance of our own life. KOE is a ‘living
performance’, where inner movement is born from deep breathing. We walk away from thelinearity of society and dance Butoh to return to the origin of Life.”

Direction & Choreography:

Atsushi Takenouchi

Dance:

Atsushi Takenouchi and total 5-7 dancers

Music:

2 - 4 live musicians,
Hiroko Komiya (percussion, voice),
Jean C. DUSSIN ( percussion, voice).

Lighting:

one person (local staff OK)

Sound:

one person (local staff OK)Art:

Red mud river arranged on the front stage like big dragon snake.

“BREATHING HERITAGE”
Premiere 2000:
Time:

Ambassade du Japon (Paris)[65 minutes]
The human body has long history inside. It is not only your own history but all human nature’s
one from millions years ago. In the blood of all of us, we have immense memory and data andinformation which has been inherited from ancient times. If we are supposed to regard atreasure which are left by ancestor as heritage, our body itself should be called heritage. And
it is alive, it breathes. We are “Breathing Heritage”. In this body, we have memory that we had
started communication using body and sounds each other first time.
With this consciousness, we can make performance with using this primitive communication of

BREATHING HERITAGE - photo by Yayoi Ogata

Direction & Choreography:

body and sound.
Atsushi Takenouchi, Iku Otani

Dance:

Atsushi Takenouchi and “Breathing Heritage” member total 4-6 dancers

Music:

2 - 3 live musicians, and all the dancers also make sounds

Lighting:

one person (local staff OK)

Sound:

one person (local staff OK)

Art:

Materials, which can make sound, are arranged on the stage on a half circle.

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“TANAGOKORO” [THE PALM]
Premiere 2000:

Orient Extreme Festival(Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree, Paris)Time:[70 minutes]

Million of shining light powder is falling down onto “the palm” from far sky. This particle of lightis telling the memory of Universe, which has started from the big bang. “The palm”
communicates with this light telling of the human origin. It is a dance of “Tanagokoro”, a danceof “The palm”. This is a dance of life and death, of creation and destruction, of light anddarkness.
TANAGOKORO - photo by Yayoi Ogata

Direction:
Choreography:

Iku Otani
Atsushi Takenouchi

Dance:

Atsushi Takenouchi and total 4 - 6 dancers

Music:

one - two musicians (Kora - African harp - kalimba, percussion, sampling, voice, stone, bells,bamboo, sea shells), and CD(MD) music

Lighting:

one person (local staff OK)

Sound:

one person (local staff OK)

Art:

Black dance floor. Make stage into totally black space with black curtain.

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- WORKSHOP CATALOG I. Workshop for dancers, actors and performers.
a. Inside workshop.
workshop.
Balance.
Walking by transferring your weight.
Live walking, Death walking.
Walking in the various situation with restriction.
The way of body operating to make the movement comeWorkshop in Paris at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree

out from inside.

photo by M. Horiuchi

Sketch the things in the nature world like living life, animal, natural material by body properly.
- one cycle of an embryo, a baby, a child, an adult, an old man.
- an insect, a beast, trees, grass, a flower.
- a gas, a liquid, a solid, gel, amoeba, an organism, minerals.
Capturing a conscious movement and an unconscious movement as a dance.
Dance a fragmental dream.
Gravitation and floating.
Various sound and body expression, voice.
Dance the seasonal body of your own.
The process of the metamorphosis.
The dance by organic and inorganic contact with other life.
How we can be desperate.
A collaboration and an improvisation by body and sound.
Find out your own expression coming from your emotion with focusing

Workshop in Szczecin / Poland
photo by Teatr KANA

on really personal things which is inside of you.
b. Nature side workshop.
workshop.
The workshop demonstrates simple and primitive ways of communication exploring transformative states ofthe body in the nature. He teaches dancers how to connect to their organic history, guiding participants
through genetic memories and allowing them to teach themselves the dance of their molecular ancestry (thedance of the seaweed, of the fox, of the stone, of the fire, etc...). His teachings start with the breath and firstmovements of life, and lead to universal interconnected awareness by focusing on dancing in the now, at yourthreshold. Workshop classes are held in outdoor settings; an outdoor stage, in and around rivers & lakes,
sand dunes, mountain sides and forest landscapes. Additional teachings in shamanic rooted chanting, andother nature based ancient based vocalization will be practiced. He will
facilitate individuals to perform their own solo in nature by thecompletion of the workshop. There will be
designated time for working on yoursolos.

Natureside workshop in France
photo by H. Komiya

Natureside workshop in USA

photo by Aurola

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Natureside workshop in USA

photo by by H. Komiya

photo by Aurola

II. Workshop
Workshop for inexperienced person.
One person dances to the sound you make, and you
dance to the sound the person makes.
Everyone,feeling

everyone

else,

responding

toeveryone else with dancing and making sound.
We communicate through improvisational voice, soundand body expression, and get to a deeper stage of understanding by means of theWorkshop in Kyoto / Japan
photo by Yayoi Ogata

senses. Through that process, each one of us will learn that “All is one and one is all.”III. Workshop for children (2 ~ 12 years old) or children and their parents
Basically a simplified version of the workshop mentioned above.
Children will share in the fun of dancing and sound, and realize thehiddenpossibility

within themselves.

Workshop in Warsaw / Poland
photo by Laura Evonne Steinman

Workshop in Shiga / Japan
photo by Yayoi Ogata

IV. Workshop for mentally and physically disabled people
Basically a simplified version of the workshop mentioned above. Somechanges will be given, depending on the degree of disability. The first aim
is to share that dancing is the joy of life.

Workshop in Takatsuki / Japan
photo by Takayuki Nagase

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- HISTORY OF ATSUSHI TAKENOUCHI 1962 - Born in Matsuzaka, Ise city, Mie prefecture.
1980 - Entered butoh dance company “Hoppo – Butoh - ha” of Otaru, Hokkaido.
1984 - Performed “TAKAZASHIKI”, his last performance with the company, taking choreography ofthe late Tatsumi Hijikata.
1986 - Starts solo performance and drawing, having a theme of nature.
- Established nature schools “Dance with nature” for children and their parents in Osaka.
1994 - Performed solo “TANAGOKORO” and “GINKAN” in Osaka.
1995 - Performed solo “ITTEKI” in Osaka.
- Performed at the memorial service „the Ceremony of Regeneration”, praying for repose of soulsat shelters

in Kobe (the stricken area by a big earthquake) in Japan.

1996 ~ 99 - Performed “JINEN”, which was based on his impressions from every place, climate, people,
music, at the remains, Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, nature fields, and theaters andhalls visiting around cities, villages, islands all over Japan. Hold workshop “Dance with Lives”
for dancers, expressionists, and university students, kindergartner, mentally and physicallydisabled people. Hold private exhibition of his drawing. He also studied a spirit of the universe
under Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno.
1999- Performed solo „STONE” in Korea and Japan Dance Festival at Theatre Zero (Seoul).
1999 ~ - Starts performing JINEN - butoh tour “Sun & Moon” in 12 countries at natural locations allover the world. Had more than 100 performance in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland,
Czech, Hungary, Austria, Norway, Spain, Thailand, Cambodia during the tour (Nerja cave in
Malaga/Spain, the coast of Limini, in Marseille/France, Dragon stone circle in Brighton/UK,
Former Sachsenhausen concentration camp /Germany, The wall of Berlin/Germany, Angkol
Wat in Shiem Riep/Cambodia, Killing Field in Pnompen/Cambodia, Thai Cave in Phetchaburiprovince/Thailand, Aka mountain tribe village/on the boarder of Laos and Thailand).
2000 - Set up the team “Breathing Heritage” with the concept of “dancing the forgotten human’s
memory”. “Tanagokoro” – group – at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree, “Breathing Heritage” atAmbassade du Japon in Paris.
- Performance“Stone“atTheater

KANA

in

Szczecin,

TheaterMalyin

Warsaw,

KONFRONTACJE TEATRALNE Festival Lublin in Poland, and Theatre Des Augenblicks in
Vienna, Duncan center in Prague, Espace culturel Bertin Poiree in Paris. Workshop at youth
center in Czarnocin in Poland, and Prague, Paris. Performance at National Nature Park –Westonbirt Arboretum- in Britain.
2001 - Performance “Tanagokoro” – group – at OSAKA TORII HALL (Osaka Dance Experience).
- Natureside workshop at the Adirondacks, up state New York. Solo performance “Stone” atGallery CAVE in NYC. Collaboration performance with Ransom Corp.
- “Ren-mitsu” collaborative performance with Japanese traditional dance at Enishi-an, Osaka.
- Solo performance “ITTEKI” at Theater KANA in Poland, “Stone” Poland tour.
- “ITTEKI” at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree in Paris.
- “Breath” collaboration performance with Red Earth (UK) at Canterbury Festival 2001, UK.
2002 - Performance “Stone” and workshop in Resonant Wave Festival in Berlin (Germany).
- Performance “TENMON” and workshop in Butoh Festival 2002 at Espace Culturel Bertin
Poiree (Paris).
- Natureside workshop project in Adirondacks, up state NY, Presentation in NYC.
- 1year collaboration dance project in Europe as an arts fellowship funded by the Japanese
government.
- Workshop project in Poland; at MCCA (Warsaw), Tratwa association (Olsztyn), BWA (Wroclaw),
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and CK Zamek (Poznan). Solo Performance “ITTEKI” at Teatr Maly (Warsaw), and CK Zamek
in Maski Festival 2002 (Poznan).
- Danced for a requiem at Birkenau, Auschwitz (Oswiecim/Poland).
2003 - Performance “STONE” in the international conference THE HUMAN BODY - A UNIVERSALSIGN at Manggha centre in Krakow (Poland), “Stone” in the 1st Butoh Festival at Teatro
Astoria (Lerici, Italy).
- 5 weeeks workshop project at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree (Paris).
- new creation “GEKKAI” in the 4th Butoh festival at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree (Paris).
- Group piece “KOE” at Theatre du Lierre (Paris) and in NYC at Angel Orensanz Synagogue(NY).
- “Burning Earth” with Kathi Von Koerber (from Germany/South Africa) in NY.
- Ex..it! 03 3rd international butoh & contemporary dance exchange. Workshop camp at Schloss
Broellin (Germany). Choreographed “Crying Evolution” with contemporary dancer Yael Schnell(Israel).
- Performance in the full moon celebration at Osaka Ecology study centre (Osaka, Japan).
- Poland tour: “ITTEKI” at Theatre Confrontation International Festival (Lublin). “JINEN” in
Parchowo. Workshop performance project “DEAI” for Polish young people in monar andGerman teen-agers at Teatr KANA (Szczecin), Mazowieckie theatre meeting point; 36 hours
workshop & presentation (Siedlce), “GEKKAI” at Teatr KANA (Szczecin) and Centrum Kultury
Zamek (Poznan), “ITTEKI” at Zak (Gdansk).
2004 - Solo performance “STONE” at Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio (Yokohama/Japan).
- JINEN Butoh solo improvisation “Fire’s eye” & “Tree’s eye” (in Yaku island/Japan).
- Collaboration performance with African dance “Fleur de Boue” with Afra Crudo, Ladji Diawara,
Jean C.Dussin, Hiroko Komiya at Art Zoraand at INECAT (Paris).

- Starts 1year JINEN Butoh collaboration work project “Inside movement and JINEN” in France,
Poland, and U.S.A by the Japan Foundation Fellowship.
2005 - Workshop and group performance “GEN” (Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree/Paris).
- Butoh & free music improvisation with Sharif Sehnaoui (electric guitar), Jean Borde(contrabass), Thierry Madiot (bass trombone), Christine Sehnaoui (saxophone), Hiroko Komiya(stone, shell, voice) at Les Voutes, and at La Guillotine in Paris.
- Natureside workshop project “Connection between Nature, body and yourself“ (Yakuisland/Japan).
- Collaboration with company “Fields of Wonder” from Holland. Site specific group performance“Fields of color” in the flower field in Leiden, Holland in ‘Week van de Bollenstreek2005 ’festival.
- Improvisation “Ki Za Mu” with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie in London (UK).
- JINEN Butoh workshop project in Toscany and South Italy, London, Amsterdam.
- TANZ COOPERATIVA Butoh project, solo Butoh “JINEN” & project group performance “GEN”
at Festival Sztuka Ulicy Warsaw Street Festival (Warsaw/Poland).
- Solo JINEN Butoh performance “Stone” at Theatre de la Dance Golovine, Avignon and Butoh
Yin-Yang Procession in Festival Avignon - Off 2005.
- The 5th nature side Butoh workshop at the Adirondacks (USA).
- Group performance “JINEN – Pros Eafton” worked on ancient Greek tragedy and Butoh, at theArts Center of the Municipality of Athens – Parko Eleftherias (Greece), in collaboration with
“Sin+Ergasia” (Athens).
- Group performance “Injured Bird” at Jack & Joe theatre (Toscana/Italy).
- JINEN Butoh workshop project and Solo Butoh “KI ZA MU” in Butoh festival Poland-Japan
Dialogue of cultures At the Cultural Centre KLUB “ZAK” (Gdansk/Poland).
- Solo Butoh “GEKKAI” At Centrum Manggha (Krakow/Poland).
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- Butohimprovisation

withMaciejRychly(flute)inParchowo

theatrefestival(Parchowo/Poland).
- Solo Butoh “KI ZA MU” with Slawomir Skruszewicz (clarinet), Boguslaw Sobieski (soundeffect) and Michal Szulzyk (double bass) at Theatre KANA (Szczecin/Poland).
- Solo Butoh “KI ZA MU” with Andrzej Trzeciak (Cello) at CK Zamek (Poznan/Poland).
- Butoh workshop in the project for Monar of Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian young
people at youth centre in Czarnocin (Poland).
- Butoh Barter 2005 workshop and presentation project, “The Mandala of life and death”(Warsaw/Poland).
2006 - Group performance “BUTOH-BYOU” at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree (Paris) and the Yin Yang
Butoh procession in the square in front of Centre George Pompidou (Paris).
- JINEN Butoh Nature side workshop and performance in Yaku island in (South Japan)- JINEN Butoh workshop and solo performance in Chicoutimi (Quebec/Canada).
- JINEN Butoh workshop project “Playing Fruits” with ALBA association, in Pisa link Dansa
festival 2005 (Italy).
- Solo Butoh „Stone” at the theater “Anoixis” Athens (Greece).
- Site specific group performance “Colours of Time” in collaboration with the company “Fields ofWonder” in the flower field in Lisse, and at Siebold Huis museum in Leiden (Holland).
- Nature side workshop in the Pyrenees (France).
- Jinen Butoh solo improvisation and Butoh workshop in collaboration with body painting by
Patricia Muller (Belgium).
- Solo Butoh improvisation „KI NO ME” for a requiem for the late Mr. Zygmunt Duczynski at
Teatr KANA (Szczecin/Poland).
- Solo Butoh improvisation „KI ZA MU” in Paris Butoh festival (Paris).
- Solo JINEN Butoh performance “TENMON"at Manggha -Centre of Japanese Art & Technology
in Krakow(Poland)2007 - Spectacle creation workshop project & JINEN Butoh work shop group performance "Life andDeath, Mandala of Transmigration”at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree(Paris)- Collaboration with Company Mobilis-Immobilis "8 seansons" direction:Maflohe Passedouet
Choreograph/dance Atsushi Takenouchi, Live music: Hiroko Komiya Electric music:
Ramuntcho Matta Interactive projection program: Cedric Plessiet At: Mediatheque deCamponac in Bordeaux (France)- Atsushi Takenouchi solo, Butoh festival Paris 2007《En hommage aux 100 ans de Maitre Kazuo
ONO 》"Fleur de midorigo-

title name given by Yoshito Ohno. at Espace Culturel Bertin

Poiree(Paris)- “Le Festival "A Corps Et A Travers"

Solo JINEN Butoh improvisation. Nature side workshop& workshop group improvisational presentation, organisé par l’association EQART(Marciac/France)- JINEN Butoh Nature side workshop and Solo Buto in Yaku island (Japan)- Atsushi Takenouchi & Kathi von Koerber Dance in Alaska and Hawaii "Ridden by Nature"environmental art film by Kiahkeya (Alaska and Hawaii)- New York Butoh Festival 2007Atsushi Takenouchi solo butoh "Ki Za Mu"at Theater for the New
City.JINEN Butoh workshop at Dance Theater Workshop(NYC/U.S.A)- Ex..it! 07 4th international butoh & contemporary dance exchange. Workshop camp.
choreographed "Memory of cemetery" with contemporary dancer Yui Kawaguchi (Japan). at
Schloss Broellin (Germany)- Inside Out Festival 2007 Site specific performance”Enclosure” evoking the hidden history of
5000years ancient hill fort of Hambledon Hill. Directed by Red Earth(UK)12 / 27

- Solo butoh performance" Fleur de midorigo "Choix du Titre: Yoshito ONO at Teatr KANA
(Szczecin / Poland)
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Barterproject,JINEN

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Warszawa.(Poland)2008 - Atsushi Takenouchi Jinen Butoh performance JINEN Butoh sol “SKIN”- improvisation #4, At
théâtre. La Fabrick . Jinen Butoh workshop performance& Butoh procession organized by Cie
La manivelle at: Piace Foch in Millau (France)- 150eme Anniversaire des relation Franco-Japonaises.35eme Anniversaire du jumelage enter
Nancy et Kanazawa

Atsushi Takenouchi improvisation performance with Sosana

Marcelino ,at Grand Salon de l'Hotel de Ville de Nancy(France)- Margose Festival 2008 Project in Marseille improvisation music & butoh : Didier
Lockwood,Caroline Casadesus,Dimitri Naiditch,Makoto Yabuki,Atsushi Takenouchi at Studios
DECANIS 22 (Marseille /France)- Collaboration with Company Mobilis-Immobilis "8 seansons" direction:Maflohe Passedouet
Choreograph/dance Atsushi Takenouchi At: theatre de la Reine blanche, (Paris)- Butoh Festival 2008 solo JINEN Butoh "EMBRACE" at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree(Paris)- JINEN Butoh Nature side workshop and Solo Buto in Yaku island (Japan)- JINEN Butoh solo” SKIN

- improvisation #5”《A homage to 101 years old master butoh dancer

Kazuo Ohno》 (Tokyo/Japan)- "U-PIPE" Jinen Butoh group performance "U Pipe" Compagnia NU + Atsushi Takenouchi&

Jinen Butoh workshop at Piccolo Parallelo in Romanengo/Milano(Italy)- "Il Corpo Dentro"Butoh performance in collaboration with Sonia Biacchi (costume designer) c.t.r.
at Venezia Candiani(Italy)- Solo JINEN Butoh performance "STONE" organized by Artrace at the Sunflower theater .
Improvisation at 3,000 yrs old cedar tree .JINEN Butoh work shop(Beirut/Lebanon)- Butoh Barter 2008 JINEN Butoh workshop and workshop group performance project in
Warsaw at Pracownia Wschodnia. Performance"Yin Yang" TR Warszawa(Poland)
2009 - Spectacle creation workshop project &JINEN Butoh workshop group performance“SOU-MA-TOH ” - Lanterne magique- at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree(Paris)- Butoh Festival 2009 JINEN Butoh solo improvisation "KAKELA"music:Lena Circus (trioexperimental) at Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree(Paris)- Collaboration with Company Mobilis-Immobilis "8 Seansons"at: Theatre de L'Universite De

Poitiers,(Poitiers/France)- Work in progres, Workshop group presentation, element from performance “Sou Ma Toh”
organized by Cie La Manivelle at théâtre. La Fabrick(Millau/France)- JINEN Butoh Live in Okinawa, Butoh: Atsushi Takenouchi ,Tabaan ,Music: Hiromi Kondo,
Hiroko Komiya at Ginowan and Yomitan (Okinawa/Japan)- JINEN Butoh solo "Ki Za Mu"

solo pieces &"kakela" solo improvisation at Little More Chika(Tokyo/Japan)- JINEN Butoh solo"kakela" solo improvisation at Space ALS-D(Kyoto/Japan)- Atsushi Takenouchi solo Butoh improvisation "kakela" with musician Shazad Ismaily at Cave
(NYC/USA)- "U-PIPE" Jinen Butoh group performance

Compagnia NU + Atsushi Takenouchi & Jinen

Butoh workshop at ( Milano/Italy)- Butoh performance in collaboration with Sonia Biacchi (costume designer) creation "Caminando"

at Centro Culturale Candiani( Venice/ Italy)- Contemporary Dance Group"Syn+Ergasia"& Atsushi Takenouchi performance. Jinen Butoh
workshop“The Apollonian and Dionysian element in butoh” in Athens(Greece)- 10th Festival - CULTURE BONDS,JINEN Butoh solo improvisation "JINEN" organized by
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theatre Kana at Łasztownia –Fishing Port Gryf.(Szczecin / Poland)- Atsushi Takenouchi solo Butoh improvisation "JINEN"at Theater MATUCANA 100,JINEN
Butoh workshop at Centro Cultural Anandamapu (Santiago, Chile)- Create Open Air Performance- Residency JINEN Butoh workshop studio and naturesideorganized by CB09 ( Talca/ Chile)- JINEN Butoh workshop and Plant medicine Retreat in collaboration with Kiahkeya ( Hernando
Villa and Kathi Von Koerber )at Lake Titicaca

On the sacred Incan island, Isla delSol,(Titicaca/ Bolivia)- Solo Butoh performance "TENMON" organized by Artrace at the Sunflower theater.
Improvisation at Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis).JINEN Butoh work shop(Beirut/Lebanon)
2010 - soloJINEN Butoh performance " HANE NO KI " music: Nicolas Moulin, Hiroko Komiya at
Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree(Paris)- Collaboration with Company Mobilis-Immobilis "8 Seansons" direction:Maflohe Passedouet
Choreograph/dance Atsushi Takenouchi at: Atrium deChaville,(Chaville/ Ile-de-France /France)- Jinen Butoh Group Spectacle work in progress "Sou Ma Toh- Lanterne magique- " direction &Choreograph/ Atsushi Takenouchi. Organized by Cie La Manivelle at théâtre. La Fabrick(Millau/France)- Jinen Butoh Group Spectacle work in progress "Sou Ma Toh- Lanterne magique- " organized by
Cie La Manivelle at théâtre. La Fabrick(Millau/France)- MusiqueAction 2010 -Nancy-, solo JINEN Butoh ” SKIN

- improvisation #7 . JINEN Butoh

workshop at CCAM at: Centre Culturel Andre Malraux.( Nancy / France )- JINEN Butoh solo " Stone" at Bhrat Nivas Auditorium . JINEN Butoh workshop inside studioand natureside / (Auroville/India)- Solo butoh improvisation performance"JINEN" at Cultural Spaces Chandralekha / JINEN
Butoh workshop ( Channai / South India)- JINEN Butoh solo performance "MI-HITOTSU- homage for Arthur Rimbaud-,"music: Antoine Letellier,Hiroko Komiya at Little More Chika (Tokyo/Japan)
Publication
1994 - " Dance with Nature in the Rice Festival" picture book. poem and calligraphy and illustrations by
Atsushi Takenouchi. ( published by Nobunkyo- Rural Culture Association-)
2005- " Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion" written by Sandra Fraleigh2006- " Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo" written by Sandra Fraleigh & Tamah Nakamura

2011- "On the silk route of gesture" written by Wiesna Mond-KozŁowska

2012- "Healing the fabric of the universe" written by De Carolina Diaz

Video/DVD
1996 - "The 2nd Osaka Dance Experience1996 RE-VIEW"（TORII HALL/Japan）
1998- "JINEN in Iwaya 1997"（BE-BOX）

1999- 1996-1998 Ginyu-Butoh "JINEN" digest &"Tanagokoro・Itteki・Ginkan" digest (Denyu /Japan)

2005- "KI ZA MU" 2005 (Teatr KANA/Poland)

2008

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Film "Silken" (11 minutes) Directed by Damien Serban and Yann Bertrand(Autour de Minuit Présente/France)- SOGO ISHII punk years 1976- 1983 dvd box I. film "Asia Strikes Back" ( Japan / 1983)
Directed by Sogo Ishii (Transformer/ Japan )2010- JINEN Butoh performance "STONE"(70minutes) at the Sunflower theater in Beirut 2008
(Artrace/ France)

2012- Film "Ridden by Nature" directed by Kathi von Koerber filming in Alaska,Hawaii and Arizona(Kkiahkeya/ USA)
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Hiroko Komiya ( object sounds, percussion, voice )Hiroko Komiya expresses the image which comes from the air, space, movements, own inner body, own deep
memory and transforms it into the sound without bound melody or rhythm. She plays objects sounds and uses voice.
For the sounds, she plays natural material; such as water, stone, bamboo, sea shells, and percussion; metal bowls,
bells and object. Her musical concept is to remind us that there is hidden beautiful sound and wonderful music inside
the nature material or objects themselves, and bring out these sounds from them. Her musical approach is filled withdeep respects for the nature elements and various objects, and it enables her to play her own original music. Her
sounds are said as if it’s blowing a new life into the objects around us, and her expression evokes new sensation to
the breath or movement of listeners. As for the voice, her voice arises from inner body, and at the same time bringsback our lost memories.

She has started working in Butoh dance Unit Globe JINEN Atsushi Takenouch as musician since 1999, by joining his
six months JINEN Butoh Europe tour. Since then, all his works and live performances are played and created by herlive music. Being based in Europe since 2002, she has been playing performance and making concert in France,
Italy, Poland, Greece, Holland, etc. and also touring to U.S.A, Canada, Chile, India, Thailand, Cambodia and Japan,
etc. mostly with JINEN Butoh project. As well as performance, she makes live music also for Butoh dance workshop
for dancers, actors, the disabled, and children in Japan, Europe, and other countries.

Apart from Butoh project, she also collaborates with film artists, sculptor, painter, poet, costume designer, various
artists and performers for exhibition, installation, concert, performance.
In 2009, She released the first solo album “Eau Nouvelle” (sotimestudio/Paris). As for collaboration with othermusician, she joined album “matta” by Ramuntcho Matta; French Chilean contemporary musician, and mama!milk;
Japanese duo in 2007. And she joined in French experimental trio Lena Circus album “Toki no Arika” in 2008, andmaking concert or improvisation jam session in France, Italy, Japan, etc.

In 2011, in collaboration with Japanesemusician Kazuya Nagaya, new album will be released ( sometimestudio/ Paris).

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Works: Music for Butoh performance choreographed by Atsushi Takenouchi
1999; Stone, / Paris, Prague, Poland,

2000; Tanagokoro /Paris ( with Cola by Hikitama, percussion by Mela )2001; Itteki / Paris, Poland,

2002; Tenmon / Paris, Poland (with electro acoustic by Mela) ,2003; Gekkai / Paris, Poland ,Koe / Paris, NY ( with voice by Jean C.Dussin)

2003; Fleur de Boue /Paris (Butoh & African dance, with percussion Ladji Diawara, voice by Jean C.Dussin )2004; Emotion Seed / Paris ( with guitar and voice by Jean C.Dussin ),Gen/ Paris, NY

2005; Ki Za Mu / London (with electro acoustic composer Nick Parkin,etc ), Poznan (with Cello Andrzej Trzeciak)
2005; Injured Bird/Italy ( with guitar by Matteo de Bellis, saxophone by Nicola Ricci)
2005; Butoh Byou/Italy (with electro acoustic by Francois Sardi , guitar and flute by Matteo de Bellis)
2005; 2006 ; Yin Yang Butoh Procession / Avignon festival, Venice
2006; KI NO ME –Tree’s Eye- / Poland,

EMBRACE / Poland

2007; 8SEASONS / France ( multimedia interactive art performance of company Mobilis-Immobilis, with electronic
composer Ramuntcho Matta)
2007; Fleur de midorigo /Paris ( for homage for 100years old anniversary of master Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno )2008; Il Corpo Dentro / Venice ( in collaboration with costume designer, Sonia Biacchi )2009; SOU MA TOH /France ( group performance, with guitar by Nicolas Moulin )2009; U-PIPE / Italy ( group performance, with electro music by Paolo Franco)
2010; HANE NO KI / Paris (with guitar by Nicolas Moulin)
2010; MI-HITOTSU / Tokyo ( with wind instrument by Antoine Letellier and poem by Andre Sarfati, Mariette Barret )2011; Vers l'Autre Monde... / Paris, Kyoto
2011; Sea of the memory / Shizuoka Japan, Paris (with Kazuya Nagaya )Concert and other live performance-2002 concert in collaboration with PLATO, opening of Festival “X-Tradition” (Minsk/Belarus)-2008 Hiroko Komiya solo concert in collaboration with Poet by Aldo Paci at Buti museum ( Italy )-2008 concert with Lena Circus at Le Vent se leve (Paris)-2009 concert with Lena Circus at Souffle continu, at Atelier Tampon (Paris)-2010 concert with Chie Mukai European tour with Lena Circus at La Comete347 (Paris)-2010 recording project with Kazuya Nagaya at Lizieres by sometimeStudio (France)-2011 performance “Indéfini” by French Juggler Francois Chat et campany in collaboration with Ramuntcho Matta(guitar) and Simon Spang-Hanssen (sax,flute)at Théâtr à Châtillon (France)-2011 concert “Bareisho” with Chie Mukai, Kazuya Nagaya at Kid Ailack Art Hall (Tokyo/Japan)-2011 concert “ashita” with Kazuya Nagaya at Lizieres centre de cultures et de ressources (France)-2011 concert tour “ashita” in Poland with Kazuya Nagaya ; Spoiwa Kultury festival (Szczecin), Centre forcontemporary art Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Manggha Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japonskiej (Krakow),
Animator Festival 2011(Poznan)

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Collaboration with other musician :Jean C.Dussin (guitar, trival voice, native songs ), Lena Circus ( music trio ),Ramuntcho Matta (guitar, electronic )Simon Spang-Hanssen (sax, flute ), Matteo De Bellis ( banjo, flute ), Claude Parle ( accordion ), Jean Bordé(contrabass), Nick Parkin (environmental malti instrumentalist ), Zam Jonson (percussion, electronic) , John Barrett(piano,guitar), Sharif Sehnaoui (guitar), Christine Sehnaoui (saxophone), Eugenio Sanna ( electric guitar ), Hubert
Poloniewicz ( tabla, ney ), Andre Sarfati ( singer, poem ), Anastasios Fotiou ( soprano sax, electronic ), Francois
Sardi ( electronic ), Kensuke Mela ( electronic ), Chie Mukai ( voice, er-hu ), Kazuya Nagaya (gongs, guitar,electronic),

mama !milk ( accordion, contrabass ), Hiromi Kondo (Kalimba, voice ), Masahiro Bessho (percussion),

Kosei Yamamoto ( flute, sax )Collaboration with dancer, theatre company, artist :-Atsushi Takenouchi (butoh dancer )-Kathi Von Koerber ,company Kiahkeya (butoh dance, art film /NY )-Company Mobilis-Immobilis ( interactive martimedia and dance company/France )-Fields of wonder ( sitespecific phisycal theatre company/ Holland )-Syn+Ergasia ( dance theatre company / Greece )-Compagnia NU ( dance company / Italy )- Sonia Biacchi (costume designer) & c.t.r. (centro teatrale di ricerca Venezia) / Italy- Yuko Ota (butoh dancer/JP), Jean-Daniel Fricker (butoh dancer/France), Céline Angèle (butoh dancer/France )-Gyohei Zaitsu (butoh dancer/France,JP ),Maki Watanabe (butoh dancer/France,JP),-Francois Chat (juggler/France)-Red Earth ( environmental art /UK )-Hernando Villa ( healer, environmentalist/Colombia )-Bruno Freddi ( sculptor, painter/Italy )-Makoto Sahara ( sculptor/Japan )-Ludovic de Valon ( painter/France )-Aldo Paci ( poet/Italy )-Paul Friedlander (light sculpture, computer art /London)

CD release-collaboration in “ Fragment of wind ” composer Yoichi Togawa(2004, jades music, Japan)-“matta” RamuntchoMatta with Mama!milk and Hiroko Komiya(2007,sometimestudio,France)-“Toki no Arika” Lena Circus with Hiroko Komiya ( 2008, MIMIMI records, France)-“Hirashi” Hiroko Komiya, Ramuntcho Matta, Simon Spang-Hanssen (2009, sometimestudio, France)-solo album “Eau Nouvelle” ( 2009, sometimestudio, France)

DVD/Film-2008 JINEN Butoh performance dvd "STONE" in Beirut Lebanon, produced by Artrace( France)-2008 voice in film “silken” by Yann Bertrand & Damien Serban, Autour de Minuit presente (France)-2009 sound in film “L’Annonciation” by David Bart & Laurence Balan, production Red Star Cinema (France)-2010 sound in video clip Atsushi Takenouchi JINEN Butoh by Jordi Arque, Perla28 productions (Spain)www.jinen-butoh.com/hiroko_profile_e.html (concert info, profile, cd info )17 / 27

- WORLD PRESS -3 APRL, 2010

SOUL RHYTHMSMADHUMITHA SRINIVASAN

ATSUSHI TAKENOUCHI:AN AESTHETICS OF MOVEMENT.
NO RULES, FORMS OR PRESCRIBED TECHNIQUE. BUTOH IS A DISCOVERY OF INNER MOVEMENTS, SAYS NOTED BUTOH DANCER ATSUSHI TAKENOUCHI IN A
CONVERSATION.
HOW MANY TIMES AFTER YOU STRIKE UP A CONVERSATION WITH A DANCER DO YOU END UP SERIOUSLY WONDERING ABOUT HOW AND WHY THE HUMAN
RACE LOST ITS CONNECTION WITH NATURE? A CHAT WITH BUTOH DANCER ATSUSHI TAKENOUCHI WAS ONE SUCH INSTANCE. ATUSHI, ALONG WITH
ACCOMPANYING MUSICIAN HIROKO KOMIYA, HAD BEEN INVITED BY THE PRAKRITI FOUNDATION TO CONDUCT INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS IN CHENNAI AND
PUDUCHERRY FOR ARTISTS IN OTHER DISCIPLINES. DURING HIS STAY, HE ALSO PERFORMED SOME OF HIS ACCLAIMED CHOREOGRAPHIES, AMONG WHICH
WAS THE PERFORMANCE TITLED “STONE”. BUTOH IS DESCRIBED AS AN ART FORM THAT EVOLVED IN JAPAN IN THE 1950S AS A RESPONSE TO THE RIGIDITY IN
SOCIAL NORMS THAT FORBADE A LOT OF THINGS. THIS “BODY REVOLUTION” GAVE THE PERFORMER THE FREEDOM TO DO WHATEVER MOVEMENT HE/SHE
CHOSE TO DO — NO RULES OR TECHNIQUE, UNLIKE IN THEIR SOCIETY. “IT IS A KIND OF DANCE WHERE EACH DANCER IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT AS EACH FINDS
HIS/HER OWN INNER MOVEMENT.” ATSUSHI FURTHER EXPLAINS THIS CONCEPT BY SAYING, “THIS TREE AND THAT ONE OVER THERE BOTH COME FROM THE
EARTH BUT THEY ARE DIFFERENT.” THE OBVIOUS QUESTION TO THIS RESPONSE WOULD BE, THEN WHAT IS THERE TO TEACH WHEN BUTOH HAS NEITHER ATECHNIQUE, FORM NOR DEFINED MOVEMENTS? IT IS THE CONCEPT THAT PEOPLE NEED TO BE TAUGHT TO UNDERSTAND. A CONCEPT AS SIMPLE AS A
FLOWER BLOOMING, FIRE BURNING, RAIN POURING OR A CHILD GROWING.
VITAL IMAGINATION“TO FIND YOUR INNER MOVEMENT FOR EACH CONCEPT, YOU NEED IMAGINATION. IT IS IMPERATIVE NOT TO THINK. IF YOU ARE TREE, DON'T THINK HOW TO
MOVE LIKE TREE; JUST BE THE TREE. IF WE START THINKING THEN THERE IS ONLY CONFUSION.” THIS STATEMENT IS IN TOTAL CONTRAST TO WHAT WE HAVELEARNT SO FAR IN OTHER DANCE FORMS — STICK TO THE STYLE AND TECHNIQUE. IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT WHEN A PERFORMER LEARNS BUTOH, HE/SHE
LEARNS TO CONNECT MORE WITH THE DANCE AND LEARNS TO PERFORM FOR THE SOUL — SOUNDS LIKE THE MUCH-DEBATED CONCEPT OF MANODHARMA IN
THE CLASSICAL ART FORMS.
ATSUSHI STARTED LEARNING BUTOH AT THE AGE OF 18, QUITE AN EARLY START CONSIDERING MOST IN JAPAN TAKE TO THE ART FORM ONLY AFTER THE AGE
OF 40, WHEN THERE ARE PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS ON THE BODY. FOR ATSUSHI, IT WAS A FASCINATION WITH NATURE THAT GOT HIM INTERESTED IN BUTOH
WHICH IS PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN OUTSIDE THE ARTISTIC CIRCLES. “I DIDN'T WANT TO LEARN ANY CHOREOGRAPHED DANCE. IF I LOOKED AT FIRE, I WANTEDTO DANCE LIKE IT. BUTOH HAS A VERY SIMILAR CONCEPT TO WHAT I FELT.” AFTER SIX YEARS WITH A BUTOH COMPANY, ATSUSHI MOVED OUT TO BECOME ASOLO PERFORMER AND EVEN SET UP HIS OWN BUTOH COMPANY, CALLED JINEN BUTOH.
ATSUSHI PERFORMS ON THEMES THAT REPRESENT HIS UNDERSTANDING OF NATURE, THAT EVERYTHING COMES FROM AND IS A PART OF NATURE, BE IT A
STORM, STONE SEATS, EVEN ELECTRICITY. “USUALLY WHEN WE THINK OF NATURE, WE THINK OF A MOUNTAIN OR TREE BUT EVERYTHING COMES FROM
NATURE, AND EVERYTHING RETURNS TO NATURE. NATURE IS EVERYTHING.”
BEYOND DEFINITIONSOTHER BUTOH COMPANIES, HE SAYS, DON'T RESTRICT THEMSELVES TO NATURE, UNLIKE HIMSELF. SOME EVEN PERFORM ABOUT CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY.
“WE CANNOT SAY THIS IS OR THIS IS NOT BUTOH. THERE IS MOVEMENT IN EVERYTHING. EVEN A BABY THAT DOES NOT CONSCIOUSLY THINK ABOUT DANCE,
DOES IT WHEN INSIDE ITS MOTHER. EVEN BEFORE WE LEARN TO DANCE, THERE IS DANCE.”
ATSUSHI HAS BEEN LIVING IN FRANCE SINCE 2002, OWING TO THE HIGHER DEMAND FOR HIS WORKSHOPS IN EUROPE AND ALSO TO EXPERIENCE NEW
CULTURES, PEOPLE AND “NATURE”, BECAUSE LIFE'S EXPERIENCES ARE WHAT MAKE A BUTOH PERFORMANCE WHAT IT IS. “JAPAN IS A VERY LITTLE,ORGANISED AND COMFORTABLE COUNTRY. YET, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SENSITIVITY IN PEOPLE; THEY ALL WORK LIKE ROBOTS. I LIKE JAPANESE HISTORYAND CULTURE, BUT LIVING THERE IS A LITTLE BIT CONSTRICTING.”
ATSUSHI AND HIS PARTNER HIROKO KOMIYA TOUR THE WORLD PERFORMING AND CONDUCTING WORKSHOPS. HIROKO IS A MUSICIAN WHO PLAYS ALONGDURING ATSUSHI'S PERFORMANCES. THE MUSIC HELPS THE MOVEMENT IN A BUTOH PERFORMANCE, AND IT RANGES FROM THE NATURAL SOUNDS OF
WATER, WIND, STONES, BAMBOO TO INSTRUMENTAL ONES.
VISITING INDIA FOR THE FIRST TIME, ATSUSHI SAYS, “I AM UNCONSCIOUSLY TAKING IN A LOT OF ENERGY FROM THIS COUNTRY, WHICH I AM SURE WILL HAVEAN IMPACT ON MY PERFORMANCES.”TOWARDS THE END, THE CONVERSATION COMES BACK TO NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS PLAGUING THE EARTH. “HUMANS AND TREE COME
FROM THE EARTH BUT DUE TO EVOLUTION WE GOT SEPARATED. W E NEED TO CONNECT BACK WITH NATURE AND UNDERSTAND IT. AT PRESENT, THE HUMANENVIRONMENT IS CRAZY BECAUSE WE HAVE LOST CONNECTION WITH MANY THINGS. THROUGH BUTOH DANCE I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE
DIFFERENT CONNECTIONS WE HAVE WITH NATURE AND START RE-CONNECTING”.

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LES NOUVELLES DE VERSAILLES / France

L’ Est Répubulicain/ France 19 Novembre

21 mai2008

2007

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News Gazeta 30November
30November 2007 Szczecin / Poland

News Rzeczpolita 7 December 2007

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Dance review - New York Times -November 15

2007

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Le QUOTIDIEN /Canada

31 Juillet 2004

22 / 27GAZETA WIBORCZA/ Poland16 Dec 2003

23 / 27GAZETA Co Jest Grane / Poland

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2001

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podium lichaam&ziel Prakijk / Netherlands
Netherlands

GAZETA / Poland

May 2003

November 2003

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Dance Article ASAHI Newspaper / Japan 7 Jun

1997& 21 Aug 1999&

26 July 2001

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- CONTACT -Globe “JINEN” Atsushi Takenouchi
Music& Contact: Hiroko Komiya
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E-mail: jinenco@gmail.com
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