Online Performance
Takao Kawaguchi Selection: Un Certain Regard
Featuring: Kim Itoh, Takao Kawaguchi, Yuki Kobayashi, Naoyuki Sakai, Pechika Satoh, Tomomi Tanabe, HAUS, Daisuke Yoshimoto and more.
A program of works selected by performer Takao Kawaguchi, this series considers Butoh from a critical perspective as “Butoh’s mirror image”. Inviting artists who work in a range of performing art styles, 10 new works will be showcased online, including Kawaguchi’s own Minotaur Disco. More details about this program will be made available in the next press release.
Takao Kawaguchi
After joining the performance group Dumb Type in 1996, Takao Kawaguchi started creating his own solo works in 2000. His world-acclaimed About Kazuo Ohno, which premiered in 2013, was nominated for a Bessie Award. He has worked as a director for the Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (1996-99), translator for Chroma—a book by British experimental film director Derek German (2003), and appeared in the short film KINGYO directed by Edmund Yeo (commissioned by the Venice Film Festival 2009).
Former Hakubutsukan Dobutsuen Station Photo: Tatsuhiko Nakagawa