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SUMMARY:AKIRA KASAI: INTRODUCTORY SESSION
DESCRIPTION:Akira Kasai (Tokyo, Japan) is now 68 years old, though mu
 ch younger than the late Kazuo Ohno and the late Tatsumi Hijikata, two
  legends of butoh, Akira Kasai was also a pioneer of the art form in t
 he 1960s and ’70s. He was even dubbed the “Nijinsky of butoh.” A
 fter studying modern dance, pantomime and classical ballet, Akira Kasa
 i met Ohno and performed with him in “Gigi” in 1963. He also joine
 d the performance of Hijikata’s “Bara-iro dansu” (Rose-colored d
 ance) in 1965. Although he may be called a butoh dancer, Kasai’s sty
 le of dance is clearly different from what is usually associated with 
 butoh —slow, horizontal movements at low positions deriving from the
  life and soul of traditional Japanese farmers. Instead, Kasai concent
 rates on fierce horizontal and vertical movements, using the expanse o
 f the stage, but with some humorous or clown like elements.In 1971, Ka
 sai established Tenshi-kan (House of Angels) in Tokyo’s western subu
 rb of Kokubunji as an institute in which he taught dance. His interest
  in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and eurythmy (an art of bodily mo
 vement based on a theory that there are archetypal movements correspon
 ding to every aspect of speech, music and emotion) led him to study in
  Stuttgart, Germany, from 1979 until 1985. He resumed giving public bu
 toh performances in 1994 after some 15 years’ lapse. Since his retur
 n to Japan he has cultivated his own highly idiosyncratic style of dan
 ce; in “Pollen Revolution,” with which he toured in the United Sta
 tes in the fall of 2004, he first appeared as awoman dressed in a trad
 itional kabuki costume, who eventually morphed into a hip-hop dancer. 
 He once said that the human body is filled with material containing bo
 th the universe’s beginning and end and that when he dances, that ma
 terial dances. He leads the Tenshi-Kan Dance Institute in Tokyo and ha
 s published two books of essays on dance perception and new dance tech
 niques.\n\nFor more information visit http://conectom.leimay.org/event
 s/akira-kasai-introductory-session
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