舞踏を知っていますか？とてもユニークで素晴らしい日本の現代芸術です。
Do you know butoh? This is such a unique and amazing Japanese contemporary art!
Date: Friday 4/16/2021 6pm PST
Zoom Link: https://pomonacollege.zoom.us/j/86320523314
Meeting ID: 863 2052 3314
Please email to kozue.matsumoto@pomona.edu for the Zoom passcode
In this event, you can learn about butoh, enjoy wonderful live performance, and get to know this amazing guest artist from Japan!
Oguri: Artistic Director/Dancer/Choreographer/Teacher
Born in Japan, Oguri’s inspiration to dance came after meeting Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata. He started performing in 1985 with famed dancer Min Tanaka’s company, Mai-Juku and participated in founding Body Weather Farm. At the same time, Oguri began performing solo dance in the avant-garde scene in Tokyo. He practiced traditional organic farming, experiencing the rhythms and cycles of this most human lifestyle and this connection of the human body to nature is a foundation of Oguri’s dance.
In 1991, Oguri moved to Los Angeles and formed Body Weather Laboratory LA with Roxanne Steinberg. For over 30 years Oguri has been teaching, creating and producing dance and multi-media works incorporating his own large-scale set/sculpture installations in formal theater settings and site-specific venues worldwide. He continues to investigate the relationship of dance to environment and the boundaries between performer and audience. He has developed collaborative projects with musicians, sculptors, painters, and poets, using literature, daily life imagery and simple materials to transform space and time with dance. He actively brings dance to the wider community. Since 2005, Oguri produces “Flower of the Season” a series of workshops and performances, giving national and international emerging and master dance artists opportunities to develop and present work. In 2011 Oguri formed ARCANE Collective with Morleigh Steinberg, for touring full productions and live performance concepts.
Oguri has received numerous grants and awards regional, nation and worldwide, 2018 United State Artist Doris Duke Fellow, among others