ARTISTS
Takao Kawaguchi
photo by Hiroki Obara
Takao Kawaguchi
Japan／Performer
After co-directing ATA DANCE from 1991 to 1995, Kawaguchi joined Dumb Type in 1996. From 2000 he began to produce his own solo works. Especially since 2003, he has been presenting multidisciplinary performances in close collaboration with musicians, artists and performers. A dance critic once discribed his work as "neither dance nor theater, but something that could be categorized as 'performance' ".
Main works include: “Di Que No Ves - Say You Don’t See” (2003), “D.D.D. - How many times will my heart beat before it stops?” (2004), “Tablemind” (2006), “Good Luck” (2008). In recent years, Kawaguchi has been working on performances about Butoh: “The Sick Dancer” (2012) and “About Kazuo Ohno” (2013), which has toured over 35 cities with more than 80 performances in Japan and abroad. Since May 2008, he has been presenting a series of solo site-specific performances entitled “A perfect life”.
Lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design from 2014. Artistic Director of Tokyo Tokyo Festival Special 13 “TOKYO REAL UNDERGROUND” in 2021. Recipient of The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize of the fiscal year 2021/22.
Main works include: “Di Que No Ves - Say You Don’t See” (2003), “D.D.D. - How many times will my heart beat before it stops?” (2004), “Tablemind” (2006), “Good Luck” (2008). In recent years, Kawaguchi has been working on performances about Butoh: “The Sick Dancer” (2012) and “About Kazuo Ohno” (2013), which has toured over 35 cities with more than 80 performances in Japan and abroad. Since May 2008, he has been presenting a series of solo site-specific performances entitled “A perfect life”.
Lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design from 2014. Artistic Director of Tokyo Tokyo Festival Special 13 “TOKYO REAL UNDERGROUND” in 2021. Recipient of The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize of the fiscal year 2021/22.
2023 project
BARA-IRO Dance Project
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photo by bozzo
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photo by bozzo
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photo by bozzo
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Atypical dancers Takao Kawaguchi and Mikiko Kawamura confront Butoh with chaotic aesthetics provoked by “Rose-Colored-Dance” (1965), a representative work of the early period of the founder of Butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata.
In the second year of this long-term project, along with a Butoh dancer in his eighties as well as young dancers in their twenties, they will give an impulse to a sense of stagnation in contemporary society with their shooting brightness.
In the second year of this long-term project, along with a Butoh dancer in his eighties as well as young dancers in their twenties, they will give an impulse to a sense of stagnation in contemporary society with their shooting brightness.
