Hikari Furu Haien

May 12, 2011

Hikari Furu Haien

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2011 Despite the resignation of legend Yoshito Ohno, younger exponents of Japan’s avant-garde dance form butoh decided to go ahead with a project that had been in the works since last summer. Hikari Furu Haien (“Light in an Abandoned Garden”) stars and is produced by Takateru Kudo, one of […]

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2011

Photo courtesy of Takateru Kudo

Despite the resignation of legend Yoshito Ohno, younger exponents of Japan’s avant-garde dance form butoh decided to go ahead with a project that had been in the works since last summer. Hikari Furu Haien (“Light in an Abandoned Garden”) stars and is produced by Takateru Kudo, one of the foremost butoh dancers of his generation and a native of earthquake-hit Sendai. Kudo says at a time when a “landscape of ruins” has emerged, a work about “the ruins that reside within ourselves” takes on particular resonance.

June 10-12, 7:30pm, ¥3,500. Za-Koenji Public Theatre, Koenji. Nearest stn: Koenji. Tel: 03-3223-7300. http://za-koenji.jp/