BUTOH DANCE 50th ANNIVERSARY
2009

JAZZ MEETS BUTOH AT The Others
in LONDON
WEDNESDAY November 4th, 2009

TRIO VOLTAIRE (Ben Davis, Jonathan Bratoeff, Dave Shulman)

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ITTO MORITA and the LONDON BUTOH ASYLUM

Performance videos: London Butoh Asylum (YouTube) Itto Solo (YouTube)

doors 7.45pm, music 8.15pm
JAZZ: Trio Voltaire
followed by
BUTOH DANCE: London Butoh Asylum, and a solo by Itto Morita
9:30pm
£5 admission

WHERE: The Others
6 and 8 Manor Road London N16 5SA
(opposite Stoke Newington Rail Station)

Tube: Finsbury Park (Victoria or Picadilly Lines), then 106 bus
Train: Stoke Newington (from Liverpool Street)
Buses: 67, 73, 76, 106, 149, 243, 476 (all stop @ Stoke Newington BR)

www.theothers.uk.com/
www.myspace.com/outofthefryingpan

Itto Morita (performing for 20 years), or Toshiharu Kasai, is a Professor of body psychology within Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology at Sapporo Gakuin University in Japan. He is the Director of the Sapporo Dance Movement Institute and a member of the Japanese Dance Therapy Association. He is the only Butoh dancer /dance therapist /psychologist in the world ! He is currently carrying out a residency in University of Hertfordshire. One of the ultimate purposes of his Butoh dance activities is soul healing of his own, and hopefully of others through Butoh performance.

Itto Butoh website

Some of the extensive research he has done can be found online here.

The London Butoh Asylum has been meeting for the fourth week, training for five hours every week. Members are from very mixed backgrounds, involving a Professor of Robotics, a musician, art students, and a park specialist!

Costumes by Mirei Yazawa
Poster design by Mirei Yazawa [poster]
Sound by Zac Gvi (for group performance)/
Sound by Tim (Efthymios Chatzigiannis) (for Itto performance)