Temple Dance – This Dance is the Online Butoh performance selected for C ARTS at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021.
2021/8/6~2021/8/30
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C Venues▶ https://res.cthearts.com/event/34:3422/34:59389/
What is humanity; what is life? In this world, nothing is certain. Explores the mystery of human body and soul. Seek the way to leave the world of worries before we die. From award-winning Butoh dancer and choreographer Emiko Agatsuma. Agaxart produces innovative Butoh performances based on Emiko’s Butoh method and aesthetics, examining the interaction beween body, mind and soul. Agaxart creates Butoh performances to deliver the diversity of the physical expression that is connected to the unconsciousness.
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FILM: Temple Dance – This Dance
World Premier 2021.2.14
European Premire 2021.8.6
C ARTS at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe | C digital from 6-30 August 2021
Performers:
Butoh: Emiko Agatsuma
DJ: Masaomi Tomomitsu (Kohgen)
Guide: Tatsuo Yoshida (Vanryu-ji)
Camera, Film direction and editing: Ai Katoh
Photographer: Naoko Kumagai
Directed by Emiko Agatsuma
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Emiko Agatsuma is an award-winning professional Butoh dancer, choreographer and art director in Japan. She is recognized internationally and invited many international dance festivals such as the Battery Dance Festival (New York), Want to Dance Festival (Taiwan), Vancouver International Dance Festival (Canada), and so on.
Agaxart is a production company in Japan. It produces innovative performances based on Emiko’s Butoh method and esthetics. Agaxart's mission is to explore the interaction among body, mind and soul, then boost people's creativity.
Butoh is a Japanese interpretative dance that was born in the 1960s. The most famous founders were Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. At first, this dance genre was a reaction against the Western modern dance style. Early Butoh dancers focused on their bodies, inferiorities and Japanese local culture, then they reconstructed them as a theatrical art. This attitude established a characteristic dance style and the philosophy, it has been influencing people all over the world.
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Otera-Odori-Ocha is a performing arts group by Butoh dancers, a Japanese tea ceremony master and monks.
Our performance reconstructs Japanese traditional culture in a unique way and respects the global diversity.
We are waiting for you at our mysterious tea room...
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Special Thanks:
Tomoshi Shioya (Dairakudakan)
Soryu Matsumura (SHUHALLY)
Manabu Fujisawa
Team Oteraodoriocha
Produced by Agaxart
ABOUT
Buddhist speech
Buddhist speech
Thinking...
Human nature has enlightenment and the truth in the mind basically. It becomes hard to have them because of worldly desires and meaningless arguments. It is similar to the moon hidden by clouds.
Human nature that could be Buddha is still in the middle of the cycle between life and death. The truth becomes impossible to appear because of deep worries. It is similar to the lotus buried in the mud.
The people are crying loudly in the burning hell. They didn’t have opportunities to read books in their life time even if there are so many books in the world.
The other people are stuck in the frozen hell. They didn’t notice numerous blessings and leads from Buddha while they were alive.
The other people are starved for 15,000 years in the hell of starving ghosts.
The other people are killing each other in the hell of animal realm.
People were born in this world luckily, but they don’t hear Buddha. Furthermore, they don’t serve for Nirvana because they are seeking pleasure in this society even if there is an opportunity to be reborn in the heaven.
Now, we are able to hear Buddhism that tells the direction to get to the Pure Land of Happiness. Our life time is limited. If we don’t go along with this straight road that is separated from the world of worries, when do we arrive in the Pure Land of Happiness?
Our life is uncertain like a dream or illusion. We are very active and lively now but nobody knows when we die. Is it in the morning or in the evening? We are not sure. Worldly desires deprive our time and we are busy for keeping evil relationships. There are not many people notice this fact and serve Buddha.
It’s not only young people who die suddenly, and it’s not only elderly people who get serious diseases as well. Who can decide that today is not the day you die? How do you know you don't belong to the member who will die soon? The death doesn't wait for your ready. If you didn’t do anything good deeds, you will fall in the hell after body is gone.
For a long time, we have been in the world of worries like now. People in the future will wander in this world of worries as well.
So, you must seek the way to leave this world of worries now. Don’t get caught by false pleasure. Never keep wandering in this world of worries.
Otera-Odori-Ocha Session 1
Otera-Odori-Ocha Session 1
Directed by Emiko Agatsuma
C digital at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe
2021/8/6~2021/8/30
C Venues▶ https://res.cthearts.com/event/34:3446/34:59417/
「をてらをどりをちゃ Session 1」
舞踏: 我妻恵美子, 塩谷智司
茶: 松村宗亮(SHUHALLY)
DJ: 友光雅臣 (寺社フェス向源代表)
案内: 吉田龍雄 (蟠龍寺)
映像・編集: 加藤亜依
写真: 熊谷直子
会場: 蟠龍寺
協力：をてらをどりをちゃ会
[The most advanced Japanese tea party]
Break down the prejudice and reconstruct traditional forms. Don't be afraid to go beyond the borderline. Don’t forget the primitive energy that happened in the past. We are walking at the top of history.
From award-winning Butoh dancer and choreographer Emiko Agatsuma. Agaxart produces innovative Butoh performances based on Emiko’s Butoh method and aesthetics, examining the interaction between body, mind and soul. Agaxart creates Butoh performances to deliver the diversity of the physical expression that is connected to the unconsciousness.
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FILM: Otera-Odori-Ocha Session 1
World Premier: 2019.12.8
European Premire: 2021.8.6
C ARTS at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
C digital from 6-30 August 2021
Performers:
Butoh: Emiko Agatsuma, Tomoshi Shioya
Tea Master: Souryou Matsumura (SHUHALLY)
DJ: Masaomi Tomomitsu (Kohgen)
Guide: Tatsuo Yoshida (Vanryu-ji)
Camera, Film direction and editing: Ai Katoh
Photo: Naoko Kumagai
Venue: Vanryu-ji, Meguro, Japan
Produced by Agaxart
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Future Temple
Future Temple
Directed by Emiko Agatsuma
C digital at C venues at the Edinburgh Fringe
2021/8/6~2021/8/30
C Venues▶ https://res.cthearts.com/event/34:3445/34:59416/
[After death, your soul will be…?]
In the past, the Japanese imagined the soul was like a fireball floating in the air. Now, they don’t believe it anymore because they know it is superstition. In 1,000 years, can we still believe something invisible in the world of full of information and plastic garbage?
From award-winning Butoh dancer and choreographer Emiko Agatsuma. Agaxart produces innovative Butoh performances based on Emiko’s Butoh method and aesthetics, examining the interaction between body, mind and soul. Agaxart creates Butoh performances to deliver the diversity of the physical expression that is connected to the unconsciousness.
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FILM: Future Temple*
*officially selected for the 39th Battery Dance Festival, New York
World Premier: 2020.8.14
European Premire: 2021.8.6
C ARTS at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
C digital from 6-30 August 2021
Butoh Dance: Emiko Agatsuma
Stage decoration collaborators: Gökçen Dilek Acay / Hasnaa Fatehi / Peng Chia Yin / Wang Shi Fu / Jonnie Pedersen / Yen-Jen Huang
Camera: Yu-Min Huang / Yao-Jun Liu
Film direction and editing: Yu-Min Huang
Photo: Uncle photography
Venue: Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Produced by Agaxart
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