| Daisuke Yoshimoto, Kei Ishikawa, Ritsuko Takahashi |
 Daisuke Yoshimoto Mon-Wed 3–5 December 5pm–8pm Na Grobli Studio Butoh dance workshop with Daisuke Yoshimoto Workshop fee: 200 z³ Fri-Sat 7–8 December, 7pm Na Grobli Studio Kyoukatabira of the Body Tickets:15 PLN  Daisuke Yoshimoto graduated in art from the Theatre Department at the Nippon University in 1967. Since the early years of his stage career, he collaborated and co-created performances with the greatest Butoh masters such as Hisayo Iwaki, Yukihiko Sakai and Kazuo Ohno (as a stage manager for Argentina in 1977 and My Mother in 1981). In 1983 he created his first Butoh piece, The Head of the Bird Woman. He has performed in many countries, including Austria, Denmark, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Ukraine, Hungary, Italy and the USA. He first time came to Poland as a stage manager with the group Ner-Kyōgen (Tokyo) to take part in an international festival of student theatres organized by Bogus³aw Litwiniec and Teatr Kalambur in Wroc³aw. In the 1990s he visited Poland several times with his pieces Eros and Thanatos (2004) and Ruined Body (2008), which he presented in Kraków, Lublin, Olsztyn, Poznañ, Szczecin, Warsaw and Wroc³aw (at the invitation of the Grotowski Centre and the Grotowski Institute). In 1997 he was the artistic consultant of a Butoh festival conceived and held by the Grotowski Centre. In 2004 he collaborated with Teatr ZAR on Gospels of Childhood as a dancer in a piece called Lazarus. In 2010, together with Jacek Ostaszewski and the music group Osjan, he performed Ruined Body in the Grand Theatre and National Opera in Warsaw and at the Cross-Culture Festival to mark the 40th anniversary of Osjan. Daisuke Yoshimoto’s Polish tour is organized by Stefania Gardecka. Question: What is Butoh? Daisuke: I don’t know, I’ll be looking for an answer to this question until I die. Death is our theme. Tue-Thu 4–20 December 10am–4pm CaféTHEA Photography exhibition, Tetsuya Saito’s Tenku Yoran (The Weaving Body) Admission free Mon 3 December, 4:30pm Opening Kei Ishikawa Sun 9 December, 7pm Na Grobli Studio Beyer Tickets: 10 PLN  Kei Ishikawa was born in October 1986 in Japan. She started training classical ballet at the age of four. In 2007 she met Daisuke Yoshimoto. She performed in Departure of the Prodigal Daughter directed by Daisuke Yoshimoto (2008) and Adieu, My Sirius (2010). Ritsuko Takahashi Sun 9 December, 8pm Na Grobli Studio Hundred-Year-Old Clock Tickets: 10 PLN  Ritsuko Takahashi is an actress and Butoh dancer. She performed in plays by Shūji Terayama for five years. A student of Daisuke Yoshimoto, she started dancing Butoh in 2007. She created the series of performances Miss R’s Story, which comprises Nostalgia (2008) and On the Other Side of the River (2009). In 2010 she performed at “Butoh Women”, an event hosted by the Grotowski Institute. |