Demonstration & Short Lecture by OKUYAMA Barabbas
with Vietnamese, English, Japanese subtitle
In this episode of Butoh Choreo Lab, we invited OKUYAMA Barabbas, who has more than 20 years of experience in Butoh, and is a former member of the famous Butoh company DAIRAKUDAKAN. Using Butoh’s method and body, he has experimented many new images and ideas, and one of that is his solo work “TRIGGER POINT”. Why “Trigger point”? Let’s watch and find out!
About OKUYAMA BARABBAS
Butoh Dancer and Choreographer.
In 2001, He joined the Butoh company DAIRAKUDAKAN (meaning; Great Camel Battleship) founded in 1972 by Akaji Maro, its leader to this day. Besides taking roles in all DAIRAKUDAKAN’ s productions, in its studio programs he choreographed and performed his own original works “ Sagram-Boy ” (2009), “ Crucifixion ” (2013) and the solo piece “ U TSU SHI MI ” (2016).
In 2016 he left DAIRAKUDAKAN to start his own company, PROJECT BARABBAS, which has staged his original solo works “ TRIGGER POINT ” (2016), “ KA BA NE GA TA RI ” (2017), “ SA SO HA RE TE ” (2018), “ Na ga re Ta ri ” (2020), “ SO RA NO HI TO ” (2020) and duo works “ Hi no shi du ku ” (2019).
Meanwhile, he has performed in Butoh and contemporary dance programs, and at several international dance festivals in South Korea or Hungary and so on, with renowned artists such as Josef Nadj, Akira Kasai, Naoko Ito, Motoko Hirayama, Mitsutake Kasai, Ikuyo Kuroda, Kentaro Kujirai, KitaMari. He has also appeared as an actor in theatre productions with artists such as Juro Kara, Sujin Kim, Akira Shirai, Mansai Nomura, Taizoh Shiota, and so on.
BUTOH CHOREO LAB
The unique form of Butoh was born out of Japan in the 1960s. Today, Butoh is known internationally and there are practitioners all over the world, but as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, opportunities for people to access Butoh have plummeted. In such times, BUTOH CHOREO LAB aims to develop, popularise and pass on Butoh, by sharing Butoh dancers’ thoughts and techniques on choreography from the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio to an online platform.
Credit: Butoh Choreo Lab
Vietnamese subtitle: The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
