"GooSayTen" (Itto Morita and Mika Takeuchi)

Butoh performance "A-MA-E-RE-YA"

The originator of Butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata, murmured some 30 years ago:
"Butoh is a dead man standing desperately"...
But, for what?
Duo Butoh dancers, Itto and Mika,
have danced and drifted across a subconscious terrain to know why,
and evocated the millions of Gods to answer why,
in order to fall down silently.
And, duo evocators dream and dance to hear the call "A-MA-E-RE-YA"
(cherishment) from the hell? or heaven?
With a wish that the sweet heavens "AMA" sing the white painted duos to sleep.

Butoh,'dance of darkness', comes to Wellspring Friday

DANCE REVIEW:
Dance duo's 'Cherished' musterious, memorable

* Rebekah Barber, dancer and artist in Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A, visited Sapporo to see Itto and Mika of GooSayTen in 1997. We had a good talk and wonderfull discussion about Butoh and arts.
In 2000, she came to Vancouver, Canada, to see GooSayTen's performance "Princess Toki" for the Vancouver International Dance Festival, and invited GooSayTen to perform in her town, Kalamazoo, through a dance company "Wellspring Cori Terry & dancers".
GooSayTen was honored to be invited and show the new Butoh work "A-MA-E-RE-YA (Cherished)" in Kalamazoo during the U.S.A.'s hard time against the terrorism.

Itto Morita and Mika Takeuchi, GooSayTen, Oct.28, 2001