Sayoko Onishi
Dancer, Choreographer
Founder of New Butoh dance
56 place des marronniers F-54385
Manoncourt-en-Woëvre, France
Email: production@manok.org

ProfileThe choreographer and dancer of the theater company “Man’ok & Cie”
(France).
She has won various international awards as a soloist and has performed allover the world, including Europe, Japan, and China. She is also the founderof her original dance “New Butoh” which has been registered as a trademark.
New Butoh is a new contemporary dance language that blends the East andthe West; in 2020, at the invitation of the city of Puglia : Italy, the official New
Butoh school is open.
Professional experience
Choreography and dance
Man’ok & Cie /France• 2022 : Landscaper / Project Eden Europa (InEsch2022 /Luxembourg)• 2012-2021 : Various duo performance pieces / Contrabass & Dance : Namakemono, Eudoxie X, Eudoxie,
Eden #3, Kwaïdan (France, Italy)• 2018-2021 : Project Vu, Revu et transformé / Music,
Dance, Video Mapping at the project of the Resistancemuseum (Luxembourg)• 2012-2018 : Project Vu, Revu et transformé / Music,
Dance, Video Mapping Tour (Luxembourg, Germany,France, Italy, China)Teaching
Man’ok & Cie /France• 2021 : Workshops in Project Eden Europa/Man’ok &Cie (In Esch2022/Luxembourg)• 2017-2021: Introduction New Butoh for young
audiences at Cavalier Bleu and Joyeux Pinsons
kindergardens in Metz and from kindergarden tohighschool in Verdun / Man’ok & Cie (France, Italy)

Projects awards
Man’ok & Cie /France• 2022 : Eden Europa / Esch 2022 European Capital ofCulture, French Presidency of the Council of European
Union Label• 2021 : Échappées, Regional Prize for Rural Solidarityof the Conseil Régional Grand Est (France)

The other• 2021: Der Besuch der Alten Dame directed by ClaireThill (Luxembourg)• 2018 : Black Out directed by Claire Thill (Luxembourg)• 2018: La primavera Siciliana : Solo dance at the Cloud
Festival, invited by the Japanese Embassy in Albania• 2015 : Mishima – L’Angelo di nulla, produced by themunicipal theater of Ferrara (Italy)

The other• 2020: Found the New Butoh School in Ruvo di Puglia(Italy)• 2004-2016 : A Guest professor of New Butoh at theUniversity of Palermo (Italy), collaboration with masterYoshito Ohno
• 2004-2016: Seminars at the University of Siena, theUniversity of Bologna and the National Academy ofDance in Rome (Italy)
Choreography & dance awards• 2006: The prize at Die Plätze, « Dance ga mitai »contemporary dance competition (Tokyo)• 1997 : First prize at the International solo Dance
Competition (Stuttgart /Germany]• 1997 : Second prize at the International Dance
Competition (Leipzig /Germany)

Dance Study• 1998-2003: Project and Creation supported by Yoshito Ohno (Tokyo).
• 2001-2004: Studied Tai chi chuang, Qi gong, at Shanghai sport university (China).
• 1996-2006:Studied the dance style and choreography of Hironobu Oikawa at Artaud Kan studio, also Tai chichuang, Qi gong.
• 1986-1988: Studied Butoh dance with Bishop Yamada, in the Hoppoh-Butoh-Ha company (Tokyo).
• 1974-1984: Studied Contemporary dance and ballet at the Art Dance Sapporo (Sapporo/Japan).
• 1973: studied classical ballet at the ballet academy Hakodate (Hakodate/Japan).
Other skills• Languages: Japanese (mother language)• English and Italian (professional level) - German and French (beginner)• Tai Chi and Qi Gong instructor