Hokkaidō Butoh Online Festival 2021

https://sapporo-butoh.com/online2021

Butoh Channel / 舞踏チャンネル

With the Great Plague of 2020 stretching out into 2021 due to a sluggish, byzantine vaccination rollout in Japan, we are still forced to navigate through emergency measures and limitations. Although this years Hokkaidō Butoh Festival was reduced in scale compared to previous years, we again are preparing online content to share with the world and continue spreading awareness of the facinating art of butoh.

Memorial Performance for the Inmates of Kabato Prison

Multimedia Project by Kyokohoku-kai, Nonoka Yoshida, & Rui Yoshigaki

月の形
何どろうな？

闇に
一人だ

縛った、
道路に

月の形
何どろうな？

What is the shape
Of the moon?

Alone
In the darkness

Bound
To the road

What is the shape
Of the moon?

Featured Members (Dancers):

  • 田仲ハル Tanaka Hal
  • 明夜 Aki Yo
  • 福村由美子 Yumiko Fukumura
  • 髪立ツカサ Tsukasa Kamidate
  • 菅原亮子 Ryōko Sugawara
  • 矢藤智子 Tomoko Yatō
  • サンダーボルト蟲姫
    Thunderbold Mushihime
  • オオタコタロウ Kotarō Ōta
  • 平尾拓也 Takuya Hirao
  • 山本謙 Ken Yamamoto
  • 零に型 Model Null-Ni
  • 小黒祐介 Yūsuke Oguro

Music By:

  • 吉田野乃子 Nonoko Yoshida
  • ヨシガキルイ Rui Yoshigaki

月の形
見えるかな？

杉の林
今高い

傷跡
埋まっている

月の形
見えるかな？

Can y'see it
The moon?

The cedar groves
grow high

The scars
Are buried

Can y'see it
The moon?

–浪漫ロマン (RDreher)

月形樺戸博物館前庭にて / In the Front Yard of Tsukigata Kabato Museum

(Apr 3rd, 2021)