Walks project
Butoh unit of Mayako Okura and Takuya Tsuji, disciples of Butoh dancer Masahide Omori who presides over Tenrouseido.
In this time of social turmoil, how will each of us walk, live, and create the future? They explore the possibility of new way of Butoh by changing the world and continuing to change themselves.
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大倉摩矢子 Okura Mayako
She has been confronting herself through improvised butoh with the theme of "living in purity from moment to moment" and exploring the dance that is drawn from the deep connection between the body and consciousness.
She started practicing under Butoh dancer Masahide Omori (leader of Tenrouseido) and performed in Tenrouseido performances since 1999. She has been performing as a solo artist, dancing outdoors, in beauty salons, museums, etc., in addition to theater performances since 2001. She also collaborates with dancers from other fields, and composes and directs workshop performances.
In recent years, she has been active both in Japan and abroad, performing at the International Butoh Festival in Taiwan, the Asian Butoh Forum, and organizing and managing international butoh exchange.
She received the 35th Dance Critics Society of Japan Award for Newcomer of the Year in 2004.
http://mayakoookura.com/
辻たくや Tsuji Takuya
Bachelor of Sociology of Body theory,Edogawa University. He began his theater career while he was in the University. Since then, he has appeared in numerous theater performances and dance theater.
After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, he became more conscious of his physicality and met Butoh dancer Masahide Omori and started Butoh dance. Since then, he has been participating in Butoh works as a member of Tenrou Seido. He started solo activities with the theme of "inhabiting what is happening" since 2013.
In addition to his solo activities, he is also exploring forms of collaboration as a symbiote like "lichen" through his unit "Dance and Sound" with cellist Asaka Igarashi and collaborative works in the "Ritornello Factory" organized by philosopher Daisuke Araya.