Kota Yamazaki

Kota Yamazaki was first introduced to butoh in 1977 through the teaching of Akira Kasai and began ballet training under the late Hirofumi Inoue in 1981. He was an artistic director of Tokyo-based rosy co. from 1995 until its close in 2001. Following an invitation in 2001 from Germaine Acogny,Yamazaki created the work FAGAA- LA in collaboration with her Senegal-based company, for which he received a NY Dance and Performance Award (Bessie Award) in 2007 and nominated for Alpert Award. Since 2002,Yamazaki with his NY-based Fluid hug-hug, presents works nationally and inter- nationally and teaches at many universities. In 2013, … Continued

Tadashi Endo

Tadashi Endo was born in Peking,China. a Japanese butoh dancer, choreographer, director, Tadashi Endo synthesizesthe traditions iof Noh, Kabuko and Butoh. He found his own way of dance, known as Butoh MA. MA, in ZEN-Buddhism, means “empty-ness’ and space between the things’ Tadashi Endo is guest professor at the “Hochschule für Darstellende Kunst” in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, “The Acadamy of Music and Moving Arts” in Jerusalem, Isreal, and at the Nucleo Interdisciplinar des Pesquisas teatrais, Unicamp, University Campinas, Brazil.