Today we have a special guest post from Florentyna Leow on the world’s first theatre expressly devoted to regular Butoh performances. Butoh is an avant-garde dance style originating in Japan. First developed by Kazuo Ono and Hijikata Tatsumi in the 1960s, one of the central features of Butoh is its very indefinability - it is difficult to attach a definition or set of … [Read more...]
Music on the Edge of Silence: Shakuhachi Concert with Adrian Freedman
A solo shakuhachi concert with Adrian Freedman in the beautiful garden of Eiun-In temple, part of the Kurodani temple complex in Kyoto. April 13 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Location: Eiun-In temple, Kyoto-shi, Sakyou-ku, Kurodani-cho 33, Kyoto, Kyoto Japan +Google Map Tickets on the door: ¥2,000 Bridget Scott says, 'A friend of mine, who lived here many years ago and is a … [Read more...]
Ensō Watt Perform Clonologic Horizone® at Urbanguild Tomorrow!
Our favorite experimental multi-media performance group will be blowing minds again at Kyoto's Urbanguild tomorrow night. Don't miss this if you are free and in town. Date: 5 November 2016 Time: 19:30–1:00 Venue: UrBANGUILD Kyoto http://www.urbanguild.net/ map : https://goo.gl/maps/wHTfPYvzDEN2 door 2800 yen adv 2000 yen student 1500 yen +1 drink ensō watt … [Read more...]
BRDG presents “117 -one one seven” “Ghost House Gone House” @ Urbanguild; 10/23
Our friend Bridget Scott writes... I’d like to tell you about a performance that I have been involved in. It began with me being interviewed by Keiko Yamaguchi,the director of a Kyoto based theatre group BRDG. The first question she asked me was, "Tell me about the house you grew up in.” After two hours, she declared it could be the starting point of a play. Yamaguchi also … [Read more...]
Vent & Eau – A Concert by Yannick Paget
Yannick Paget will conduct an original concert "Voice of 風水" for La Nuit Blanche at Kyoto Art Center on October 1st from 16.00 - 17.30. Here's Yannick with some background to the piece: “It was an exciting challenge to start the new KAC’s cycle “listening to the voice of Feng shui”, especially in a town like Kyoto that had a minister of Feng Sui for so many years and … [Read more...]
