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Kasai Akira Post Butoh Performance"Unfinished" Keio University Freshman Event 2024

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   Congratulations, one and all, on your admission to the university.
   It is always this way; society seemingly engulfed in a vortex of chaos. But you
   are a light.Keep shining and walk on.
   These pieces are significant to me, personally. Schubert's "Unfinished" was the
   last work I danced to in Daiichi Seimei Hall 45 years ago when I had decided to
   emigrate from Japan to what was then West Germany.
   The Concierto de Aranjuez was a piece that my teacher, Kazuo Ohno, choreographed
   for my debut recital. Winterreise is the theme song of my journey.

   Akira Kasai


   *Flyer: [51]Download

Date

   Wednesday 15 May 2024, 18:00 start (Doors open at 17:00)

Venue

   Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Raiosha Event Terrace

Audience

   Open to anyone

Cost

   Admission Free

Enquiries and bookings

   Keio University Art Center
   2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345
   Tel 03-5427-1621

   pj.ca.oiek.c-tra@otomihsi

   [52]Performance[Keio University Freshman Event 2024]

Date

   Wednesday 15 May 2024, 18:00 start (Doors open at 17:00)

Venue

   Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Raiosha
   4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku,Yokohama
   Access from Hiyoshi Station(Tokyu Toyoko Line / Tokyu Meguro Line / Tokyu
   Shin-yokohama Line / Yokohama Municipal Subway Green Line)

Audience

   Open to anyone

Cost

   Admission Free

Booking

   No booking required

Lecturer/Performer

   [Performer]
   Akira Kasai
   [Sound/Lighting]
   Masaru Soga
   [Music Pieces]
   First and second movements from Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B Minor,
   "Unfinished"
   Second movement from Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and
   orchestra
   "Der Leiermann" and other selections from Franz Schubert's Winterreise

   [Performer profile]
   Kasai Akira was born in Mie Prefecture in 1943. His childhood was marked by the
   strict discipline of his father Torao, a judge, who he lost to the Toya Maru
   ferry accident on September 26, 1954. Although he has never been baptized, he has
   extensive experience with the Christian lifestyle, and it would be safe to
   characterize the historical "Resurrection of Jesus" as one of Kasai's lifelong
   themes. He entered the world of dance following his studies at the studio of
   Eguchi Takaya and Miya Misako, and would go on to meet Ohno Kazuo and study
   directly under him for three years. In October 1963 he encountered Hijikata
   Tatsumi as a dancer in the Gi-gi ("Sacrifice Ceremony") at Asahi Hall and would
   later perform in "A Rose-colored Dance: A LA MAISON DE M. CIVECAWA" at
   Sennichidani Hall, in November 1965. He established his own studio, the
   Tenshi-kan ("House of Angels"), in 1971, and lived in Germany from 1979 to 1985.
   His practice takes in eurhythmy and pantomime, and is not constrained by "butoh"
   in its narrow sense.

   A highly regarded writer, his position of emphasizing mystery and spirituality is
   expounded in his books Tenshi-ron ("About Angel"), Seirei Butoh ("Spiritual
   Butoh"), and Tomei Meikyuu ("Crystal Labyrinth") - a photographic collection
   produced in collaboration with Eikoh Hosoe - among many other published works.
   His works cover a broad range of topics from Western occultism through to
   Oishigori Masumi's Shinkun Kojiki ("Chronicles of Shinkun"), and sublimates them
   into "dances" which transcend mere quotidian language, earning him an ardent fan
   base as an author. Meanwhile, just as he puts it that: "I can hear the music of
   the heavens" (Spiritual Butoh, p.9), and asserts that "The Holy Spirit is energy,
   and one cannot live for a single moment without it" (Spiritual Butoh, p.26.), as
   a dancer he gives his audiences a sense of the cosmic as well as of tradition,
   transcending Modern Japan through a pre-modern, European, "Dance Cosmology". He
   is, in essence, embodying the irresoluble mysteries of the gods found, for
   example, in the poetry of Sir John Davies, 1569-1626.

   As Kasai states at the beginning of The Body and Life: Super Generational Dance:
   "As long as history is a living entity in the continual process of change, any
   era is a turning point. Nevertheless, rather than each person living continually
   across all eras, humans are confined to specific time periods, with their own
   sense of how the era in which they actually live constitutes a turning point.
   Such perception will involve marshaling their imaginations to achieve a bird's
   eye view of history as a whole". Such sentiments illustrate Kasai's strong
   awareness that modernity and the social are also pivotal to dance. A recipient of
   the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts for his 2013 performance "Dancing
   the Constitution of Japan".
   This is the fifth occasion on which Akira Kasai will perform at the welcome event
   for Keio University's incoming students. In 2010, he conducted the poetry and
   dance session, "Sphere, Flashing Souls: REQUIEM" in a collaboration with Gozo
   Yoshimasu. He later performed "Dancing the Constitution of Japan" in 2020,
   "Dancing John the Apostle" in 2021, and "Dancing Chopin" in 2022. (Hayato Kosuge)

Enquiries and bookings

   Keio University Art Center
   2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345
   Tel 03-5427-1621

   pj.ca.oiek.c-tra@otomihsi

Organiser(s)

   Hosts: Hiyoshi Art and Performance Project (HAPP), Keio University Art Center
   (KUAC)
   Cooperation: Keio Senior High School, Portfolio Butoh
   Coordinator: Hayato Kosuge
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