Yuko Kaseki

Yuko Kaseki ( Japanese 可 世 木 祐 子 Kaseki Yuko ) is a Japanese dancer , choreographer and performance artist .

Career

Yuko Kaseki, born in Chiba, Japan, has lived in Berlin since 1995. She studied butoh dance and performance at the Braunschweig University of Art with Anzu Furukawa .

Yuko Kaseki began her dance career in Anzu Furukawa's dance companies Dance Butter Tokyo and Metamorphosis , where she danced from 1989 to 2000. In 1995 she founded the dance company cokaseki with Marc Ates . Yuko Kaseki has since been involved in projects with other dancers, performers, musicians and visual artists. She has appeared internationally in solo and ensemble performances, collaborations and improvisations: in Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Australia, Russia, India, Burkina Faso and UNITED STATES.

Her works are poetic-existential, relate in an independent way to the tradition of Butoh, and reflect intensely condensing aspects of human existence. Her work is characterized by a constantly new aesthetic approach, imaginative and surprising movement patterns, and a dramaturgy that contains both tragic and humorous moments.

A longer cooperation exists u. a. with the companies inkBoat (San Francisco), CAVE (New York), Tableau Stations (San Francisco), in an improvisational duo with Antonis Anissegos (Berlin), and Poema Theater (Moscow).

Her strong interest in expressively exploring physical boundaries also led to projects with performers with so-called “mixed ability”; she has been choreographing and performing with the Berlin Theater Thikwa since 2008 ; and appeared in performances with Roland Walter (Berlin), Sung Kuk Kang (Seoul), Zan-Chen Liao (Taipei).

In addition to her stage engagements, she was an artist fellow at the Interweaving Performance Culture, International Research Center , Freie Universität Berlin from 2012–2013 .

Yuko Kaseki is also the inventor and organizer of the AMMO-NITE GIG improvisation series , in which she has been regularly creating freely improvised dance-theater works with changing international performers and musicians since 2004. The series takes place in the Berlin dance venue DOCK 11 ; among the cooperation partners were a. Antonis Anissegos, Minako Seki , Isak Immanuel, Shinichi Momo Koga, Katrin Geller, Margarete Huber and Sten Rudstrom.

Awards and grants

• Ame to Ame received the award “The Best Ensemble Performance” and was nominated for “Best Choreography”, “Best Composition”, and “Best Visual Design”, Isadora Duncan Dance Award 2004, San Francisco, USA.
• c (H) ord , in collaboration with inkBoat, received the award “Outstanding Achievement in Performance Company”, Isadora Duncan Dance Award 2009, San Francisco, USA
• Tooboe was nominated for Outstanding Production at The Dora Mavor Moore Awards 2007 in Toronto, Canada.
• To collaboration with Tableau Stations was nominated at no-ballet, International Dance Competition 2012, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
• Let My Fish Loose was nominated at no-ballet, International Dance Competition 2007, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
• Kudan was nominated for the Toyota Choreography Award in Tokyo, Japan in 2004 and received the award "the Best Ensemble Performance" and was nominated for "Best Choreography", "Best Composition" and " 2004" at the 2004 Isadora Duncan Dance Award in San Francisco, USA. Best Visual Design ".

• Yuko Kaseki received scholarships and residencies at HH Art Spaces (India), Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan), Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taiwan), International Artists Workshop (Taiwan), Künstlerhaus Lukas (Germany), Robert Willson Watermill Center (USA) , Headlands Center for the Arts (USA), Center for contemporary Art Ujazdowski (Poland), CESTA / Cultural Exchange Station (Czech Republic).

Teaching

Yuko Kaseki teaches contemporary dance and butoh worldwide.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Künstlerhaus Lukas
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cokaseki
3. ↑ portrait

Web links

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