Female Perspectives on Butoh: Unspelled by Yuko Kaseki

Yuko Kaseki

NEW YORK BUTOH FESTIVAL 2009: PERFORMANCE

”Order of language spilling spelled and un-spelled voice, spine, fingernails, shadow broken a part and puzzled landscape in body breathing the air between observer, past and I and spelling”

Unspelled is a solo dance performance confronting the landscape of the body before its configurations of language or orientation. Playing in deconstruction and construction of self-image, territory of emotion, sexuality, and geometrical weight, the dance repeats death and birth, rhythmically piling up memory and cutting out moments of silence.

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Object Identifier

AMP.PRG.2009.4004.10

ID number

4004.1X

Year Created

2009

Date Created

20091114

Performance dates

2009-11-14 00:00:00

Language

English

Running Time

9.0

Extent

Italian

Curated Filters

  • Art Installation
  • Latex
  • With university students
  • Collaboration
  • LEIMAY Ensemble

Space / Location

  • LEIMAY Casita
  • Onsite work spaces
  • Creation of new works

Premiere Venue

DNA
11/14/2009 - 11/15/2009
280 Broadway, NY, NY

Premiere Venue specific dates

  • 14/11/2009
  • 15/11/2009

Choreographer/Performer: Yuko Kaseki,
Directorial Advisor:Marc Ates and Isak Immanuel,
Music: Colleen, Margaret Leng Tan, Toki-Meki, Science Lighting
Design: Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa

Official Festival Photographer: Yana Kraeva, Florence Baratay;
Official Festival Videographer: Shige Moriya, Bleakley Mcdowell

The NYBF project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The CAVE NY Butoh Festival performances are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts. CAVE performance season is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. CAVE’s commissioned project for the NY Butoh Festival is supported by the Asian American Arts Alliance JP Morgan Chase SOAR Program.

Partners: National Museum of Dance, Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam, New York Dances, WNYC.

Special thanks to Tanya Calamoneri, Ken Watt and CAVE;
Festival Publicist: Jonathan Slaff

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Yuko Kaseki
Marc Ates
Isak Immanuel
Colleen
Margaret Leng Tan
Toki-Meki
Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa