A Forest of Eyes
A Forest of Eyes is a dance performance for children from 9 years and up, taking it´s starting point in animistic traditions' view of the Forest as a place to learn from other beings perspectives. In the Forest the human is surrounded by Eyes.
KAI-EN
butoh dance, choreography
costume, scenography
Mikael Öberg
performance story telling
Katt Hernandez
music
Ronald Salas
light design
Premiere!
@Teater Sláva/Tonsalen, Huddinge, Sweden
March 12, 2 pm
Teater Sláva
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Public performance also
@Gula Villan Järna, Sweden
March 19, 1 pm
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Illustration: Hiroko Tsuchimoto
Trailer: Thomas Zamolo
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Lineage
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WORLD PREMIERE!
The premiere has previously been postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic restrictions.
A network of roots and mycelium, entangled in symbiotic exchange. Bodily transmission as the qualitative, deepened process. To be the host animal to that which must live, to offer our fur as a reserve for a wilderness to flourish.
Through unfolding a choreography from the experience archived within the body, of two different but yet, because of their encounter within the same body, related dance forms: butoh and nordic folk dance, we are offered to engage in their common world of transparencies, lines, shifting layers and becomings.
KAI-EN concept, choreography, dance, costume, space
Alexandra Nilsson composition
Sandra Marteleur improvisation, violin,viola
Maria Ros light design
October 8, 8 pm
October 9, 4 pm
2022
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Fylkingen
Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2
Stockholm, Sweden
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KAI-EN BUTOH WORKSHOP
Intensive butoh workshop, August 16–19 2022, Järna, Sweden.
This workshop is an introduction to the vibrant world of butoh through KAI-EN butoh method.
The method is based on SU-EN butoh method, which is KAI-EN´s training background.
The aim is explicitly artistic - to create a dancing and performing body.
The body is the centre of the work.
In butoh, the body and the consciousness are pushed towards an intention of becoming other - other living beings, organic processes and forces. Butoh evokes an intense relation with the world through all senses. Through this process the body's relationship to the world is shifted. The body and the space becomes alive.
KAI-EN´s work engage in the subtle but radical qualities of becoming.
Through erasure, withdrawal and surrender, the body’s conditions of existence in the world are shifted. At its core lies a desire to become landscape - the body´s co-existence with the ever-shifting, diverse and vibrant universe.
August 16–19 2022
10 am - 6 pm
@
Gula Villan
Turingevägen 9
Järna, Sweden
Workshop fee: 2 000 SEK
Application deadline: July 20th
Send your application with a short description of who you are and your motivations to:
info@kai-enbutoh.se
No previous butoh or other dance training is required, though you are expected to be prepared for intense work, both physically and mentally.
Butoh originated in Japan in the late 50´s, in Tokyo´s avant-garde movement. The main founder is considered to be Tatsumi Hijikata. It has since then developed and spread over the world through artists working closely to him, and their students and groups. The work is transmitted from body to body in a teacher/student relation, yet developed through each artists work.
KAI-EN studied with Swedish choreographer and butoh artist SU-EN 2005-2010. Through her final examination and solo performance project About Face in 2010, she was given the name KAI-EN (SEA SHELL-GARDEN) which signifies the living link from SU-EN's body and SU-EN butoh method. Since 2010 she develops her choreographic work through KAI-EN Butoh Company.
SU-EN is the pioneer of butoh in Sweden. She studied in Tokyo from 1988-1994 with the Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo group where the legendary dancer Yoko Ashikawa was choreographing and teaching. The base of SU-EN butoh method was developed from the Shizune/Ashikawa method.
Photo: Cecilia Nygren 2011
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HRIST
– a divination act
A performance intertwining butoh, performance storytelling and Norse mythology, influenced by African divination practices.
@ Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
February, 25–27 2022
Feb 25
8 pm Premiere!
Feb 26
4 pm
7 pm
Feb 27
2 pm
4:30 pm
Length: app 1 hour
Entrance: 120/100 SEK
Tickets: info@kai-enbutoh.se
You may book your ticket until the day before each performance.
OBS: Only 14 persons in the audience/act. Pre-booked tickets only!
With support from Swedish Arts Council and residency at Teater Sláva.
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Photo: Mikael Öberg
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Asymmetries
Choreography – dance – performance
Participating artists: Eleanor Bauer, Anna Pehrsson and KAI-EN
Fylkingen, Stockholm
October 16
6:30–11 pm
Asymmetries investigates the unstable and the disintegrating as openings towards something alien. Through bodily processes a border is reached where the subject is destabilized, form disintegrates and the space shifts into a landscape traversed by intensities.
Asymmetries concerns the corporeal opening towards visible and invisible layers: perceptive entanglements of thought and body, language and sensibility.
For Asymmetries three choreographers are invited to present solo works that, in different ways, reflects the theme of the evening. The program is the fourth in a series with choreography, dance and performance, curated by KAI-EN and Kajsa Sandström at Fylkingen.
Co-production with Fylkingen
With support from Swedish Arts Council
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Illustration: Rebecka Holmström
Photo (Anna Pehrsson, below/right): Thomas Zamolo
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Stone Breath
Stone Breath is a collaboration between the composer and musician Alexandra Nilsson, artist and film maker Björn Ola Lind and butoh dancer and choreographer KAI-EN, departing from the material stone and places along the Northwestern coast of the island Öland in the Baltic Sea.
@ Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
August, 25–27 2021
8 pm
Length: app 1 hour
Entrance: 120/100 SEK
Tickets: info@kai-enbutoh.se
You may book your ticket until 1 pm the day of the performance.
Restricted numbers of audience according to current restriction due to the pandemic.
OBS: Pre-booked tickets only!
With support from Swedish Performing Arts Agency and Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation.
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Photo: Björn Ola Lind
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Murken
A performance with improvised music and dance that pays tribute to the processes of the ordination and the dead wood as a cradle for new life.
A tree can die for hundreds of years. During the preliminary process, the trees send signals, information and nutrition back to the rest of the forest via the roots and out to the weave, the mycelium that connects everything.
The Butoh body is exposed to organic forces such as the twisting power that passes through the tree, the insects that eat its bark and dissolve it in dust particles or the decomposition that transcends in mucus. In Katt Hernandez violin improvisations, we can hear the friction of winding branches and roots, and intensely buzzing insect swarms. Violin's overtones meet Björn Ola Lind's overtone singing and deep drones along with trees own sounds as they drink, pulsate and twist in an anthem for the living.
KAI-EN butoh
Katt Hernandez violin and voice
Björn Ola Lind drones and voice
Time: 13.30 am and 14.00 pm
Pre-book ticket at Salver or as well as at Klostermuseet, SEK 80, entrance to the museum included. Note - few places.
The performance opens Björn Ola Lind´s photo exhibition Roots. More information in the links below.
@ Sancta Birgitta Klostermuseum, Vadstena, Sweden
August 14 2021
13:30 and 14:00
Tickets: Pre-book ticket at Salver or as well as at Klostermuseet, SEK 80, entrance to the museum included. Note - few places.
Sancta Birgitta Klostermuseum
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Photo: Björn Ola Lind
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Stone Breath
Galleri Alaoui, Binnerbäck, Öland, Sweden
May 13–15, 7–11 pm
Art installation with film, music and dance.
A collaboration between the composer and musician Alexandra Nilsson, artist and film maker Björn Ola Lind and butoh dancer and choreographer KAI-EN, departing from the material stone and places along the Northwestern coast of the island Öland in the Baltic Sea.
The project is shown at the local event Öland Spirar
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Image: Björn Ola Lind
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POSTPONED DUE TO CURRENT RESTRICTIONS DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC!
A network of roots and mycelium, entangled in symbiotic exchange. Bodily transmission as the qualitative, deepened process. To be the host animal to that which must live, to offer our fur as a reserve for a wilderness to flourish.
Through unfolding a choreography from the experience archived within the body, of two different but yet, because of their encounter within the same body, related dance forms: butoh and nordic folk dance, we are offered to engage in their common world of transparencies, lines, shifting layers and becomings.
KAI-EN concept, choreography, dance, costume, space
Alexandra Nilsson composition
Sandra Marteleur improvisation, violin,viola
Maria Ros light design
March 10, 2021
7 pm
@
Fylkingen
Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2
Stockholm, Sweden
Pre-booked tickets only:
www.fylkingen.se
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KAI-EN BUTOH WORKSHOP
Intensive butoh workshop, January 3–5 2020, Stockholm, Sweden.
This workshop is an introduction to the vibrant world of butoh through KAI-EN butoh method.
The method is based on SU-EN butoh method, which is KAI-EN´s training background.
The aim is explicitly artistic - to create a dancing and performing body.
The body is the centre of the work.
In butoh, the body and the consciousness are pushed towards an intention of becoming other - other living beings, organic processes and forces. Butoh evokes an intense relation with the world through all senses. Through this process the body's relationship to the world is shifted. The body and the space becomes alive.
KAI-EN´s work engage in the subtle but radical qualities of becoming.
Through erasure, withdrawal and surrender, the body’s conditions of existence in the world are shifted. At its core lies a desire to become landscape - the body´s co-existence with the ever-shifting, diverse and vibrant universe.
January 3–5 2020
10 am - 5 pm
@
Fylkingen
Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2
Stockholm, Sweden
Workshop fee: 1 500 SEK
Application:
Send your application with a short description of who you are and your motivations to:
info@kai-enbutoh.se
No previous butoh or other dance training is required, though you are expected to work hard both physically and mentally.
Butoh originated in Japan in the late 50´s, in Tokyo´s avant-garde movement. The main founder is considered to be Tatsumi Hijikata. It has since then developed and spread over the world through artists working closely to him, and their students and groups. The work is transmitted from body to body in a teacher/student relation, yet developed through each artists work.
KAI-EN studied with Swedish choreographer and butoh artist SU-EN from 2005-2010.
Through her final examination and solo performance project About Face in 2010, she was given the name KAI-EN (SEA SHELL-GARDEN) which signifies the living link from SU-EN's body and SU-EN butoh method.
SU-EN is the pioneer of butoh in Sweden. She studied in Tokyo from 1988-1994 with the Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo group where the legendary dancer Yoko Ashikawa was choreographing and teaching. The base of SU-EN butoh method was developed from the Shizune/Ashikawa method.
Photo: Ida Gavois 2013
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Porous (excerpt)
Softness and sweetness of a decaying space
A body cut open to the world
Mouldering
Concept, butoh dance and choreography: KAI-EN
Costume: KAI-EN
Music: Lars Åkerlund
Moving images: Björn-Ola Lind
September 13
The excerpt of the performance Porous is shown as part of the festival "Dansfestivalen" at DansPlats Skog, Söderhamn, Sweden, September 13-15.
More info at: Dansfestivalen 2019
Image: Björn-Ola Lind
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Mimi Spirits
Durational performance
KAI-EN butoh
Björn Ola Lind sound
As part of the finissage of the group exhibition Y-Salong 2019.
Västernorrlands Museum
September 15
12-1 pm and 1.30-2.30 pm
The space becomes a landscape where body and sound unfold over time. Mimi Spirits evokes the invisible layers of existence.
Björn Ola Lind and KAI-EN is also part of Y-Salong with the video installation Rå.
Mimi Spirits and Rå is part of the project Body Landscape where the artists examines relations between body and landscape through different media. The artists aim for a contemporary animism, an erasure and dissolution of borders between the human body and the body of the landscape, and for the mythical reality of the landscape.
Photo © Björn-Ola Lind och KAI-EN Butoh Company 2018
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Porous
Softness and sweetness of a decaying space
A body cut open to the world
Mouldering
Concept, butoh dance and choreography: KAI-EN
Costume: KAI-EN
Music: Lars Åkerlund
Moving images: Björn-Ola Lind
Light design: Maria Ros Palmklint / Flamingo Produktion
Video technique: Flamingo Produktion
Duration: app 45 min
Production: KAI-EN Butoh Company
Fylkingen, Stockholm
December 6-8, 2018
19:00
Entré 120 kr/100 kr
Cash only!
With support from Swedish Arts Council, the City of Stockholm and C.off
Thanks to Katja Seitajoki/Arena Baubo and Kulturhuset/Stadsteatern
Image: Björn Ola Lind
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Lineage
Choreography – dance – performance
Marie Fahlin
KAI-EN
Saadia Hussain
Paloma Madrid & Carina Michele Do
Magnus William-Olsson
About identification, symbiosis and kinship in dance and performance.
The theme focus on each artist and highlights how dance and performance artists relate to predecessors within the arts.
How does dancers/choreographers/performance artists reference past works/artists? What influence does earlier artists have as inspiration? Is there a kinship in art through identification? What does it mean to embody a tradition?
About closeness and distance through different times: Then, She, That; strings assemble in a burning Now, Here, I.
Curated by KAI-EN and Kajsa Sandström
Fylkingen, Stockholm
Oktober 27, 2018
18:30 – 23:30
Entré 120 kr/100 kr
Cash only!
With support from Fylkingen and the City of Stockholm
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Image: Saadia Hussain
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Finissage
BODY LANDSCAPE
Finissage with performance and artist talk
Härnösands Konsthall
August 25 2018, 1 pm
BODY LANDSCAPE
Björn-Ola Lind / KAI-EN
Photo / Moving images / Installation
The exhibition examines relations between body and landscape. The artists aim for a contemporary animism, an erasure and dissolution of borders between the human body and the body of the landscape, and for the mythical reality of the landscape. The work departs from specific places in the region Ångermanland, Sweden, appealing through their mythical quality.
With support from, Härnösands Konsthall, Konst Västernorrland and KC Nord.
Härnösands Konsthall
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Photo © Björn-Ola Lind och KAI-EN Butoh Company 2018
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BODY LANDSCAPE
Björn Ola Lind / KAI-EN
Photo / Moving images / Installation
Härnösands Konsthall June 2 - August 25 2018
June 2, 1 pm, Vernissage with performance
August 25, 1 pm, Finissage with performance and artist talk
The exhibition examines relations between body and landscape. The artists aim for a contemporary animism, an erasure and dissolution of borders between the human body and the body of the landscape, and for the mythical reality of the landscape. The work departs from specific places in the region Ångermanland, Sweden, appealing through their mythical quality.
With support from, Härnösands Konsthall, Konst Västernorrland and KC Nord.
Härnösands Konsthall
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Photo: Björn-Ola Lind 2017
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KAI-EN BUTOH WORKSHOP
Intensive Butoh Workshop, August 13-19 2018
An introduction to the vibrant world of butoh through KAI-EN butoh method.
The method is based on SU-EN butoh method, which is KAI-EN´s training background.
The aim is explicitly artistic - to create a dancing and performing body.
No previous butoh or other dance training is required, though you are expected to work hard both physically and mentally.
The body is the centre of the work.
In butoh, the body and the consciousness are pushed towards an intention of becoming other - other living beings, organic processes and forces.
Butoh evokes an intense relation with the world through all senses.
Through this process the body's relationship with the world is shifted. The body and the space becomes alive.
KAI-EN studied with Swedish choreographer and butoh artist SU-EN from 2005-2010.
Through her final examination and solo performance project About Face in 2010,
she was given the name KAI-EN (SEA SHELL-GARDEN) which signifies the living link from SU-EN's body and SU-EN butoh method.
Since 2010 she produces performances and dance work through KAI-EN Butoh Company.
Performance project, August 20-26 2018
Workshop participants are invited to participate in a performance project in the area around Härnösand and Kramfors.
The project is part of the exhibition Body Landscape by KAI-EN and Björn Ola Lind at Härnösands Konsthall.
Project costs are covered for by KAI-EN Butoh Company.
Training and shared accommodation at Svanö Folkets Hus. Send your workshop application for more details.
The workshop is held at Svanö Folkets Hus, Svanö.
Svanö is a small island in the river Ångermanälven, in Kramfors municipality, Sweden.
Workshop fee:
4 500 SEK
Fee includes food and simple accommodation in shared dormitory.
Application deadline: June 10th
Send your application with a short description of who you are and your motivations to:
info@kai-enbutoh.se
Photo: Björn-Ola Lind 2014
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KAI-EN BUTOH WORKSHOP
Intensive butoh workshop, December 28-30, Stockholm, Sweden.
This workshop is an introduction to the vibrant world of butoh through KAI-EN butoh method.
The method is based on SU-EN butoh method, which is KAI-EN´s training background.
The aim is explicitly artistic - to create a dancing and performing body.
The body is the centre of the work.
In butoh, the body and the consciousness are pushed towards an intention of becoming other - other living beings, organic processes and forces. Butoh evokes an intense relation with the world through all senses. Through this process the body's relationship to the world is shifted. The body and the space becomes alive.
KAI-EN´s work engage in the subtle but radical qualities of becoming.
Through erasure, withdrawal and surrender, the body’s conditions of existence in the world are shifted. At its core lies a desire to become landscape - the body´s co-existence with the ever-shifting, diverse and vibrant universe.
December 28-30 2017
10 am - 5 pm
@
Fylkingen
Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2
Stockholm, Sweden
Workshop fee: 1 500 SEK
Application:
Send your application with a short description of who you are and your motivations to:
info@kai-enbutoh.se
No previous butoh or other dance training is required, though you are expected to work hard both physically and mentally.
Butoh originated in Japan in the late 50´s, in Tokyo´s avant-garde movement. The main founder is considered to be Tatsumi Hijikata. It has since then developed and spread over the world through artists working closely to him, and their students and groups. The work is transmitted from body to body in a teacher/student relation, yet developed through each artists work.
KAI-EN studied with Swedish choreographer and butoh artist SU-EN from 2005-2010.
Through her final examination and solo performance project About Face in 2010, she was given the name KAI-EN (SEA SHELL-GARDEN) which signifies the living link from SU-EN's body and SU-EN butoh method.
SU-EN is the pioneer of butoh in Sweden. She studied in Tokyo from 1988-1994 with the Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo group where the legendary dancer Yoko Ashikawa was choreographing and teaching. The base of SU-EN butoh method was developed from the Shizune/Ashikawa method.
Photo: Ida Gavois 2013
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Tangled
April 7-9 2017
@ The 4th Hong Kong Butoh Festival: www.aptfs.org
Solo performance Tangled penetrates deeper into the undergrowth – a place of deceptive, compelling darkness but also unexpected spaces, layers and openings.
The undergrowth is an image of both mental state and poetic reality: overgrown, untamed, impassable, a place of organized chaos.
Butoh choreography and dance: KAI-EN
Costume: KAI-EN
Music: Lars Åkerlund
Duration: app. 20 min
With support by The International Dance Programme – The Swedish Arts Grants Committeé’s International Programme for Dance Artists
The solo will be presented in connection to the workshop choreography by
SU-EN
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Tangled
KAI-EN BUTOH COMPANY / TANGLED / butoh
MALINE CASTA / Note to Self / performance
@ FYLKINGEN Stockholm
February 23 2017
19:00 Entrance
intermission / bar
19:30 MALINE CASTA / Note to self
intermission / bar
20:15 KAI-EN BUTOH COMPANY / TANGLED
intermission / bar
21:00 Exit
Entré: 100 SEK
Booking tickets: info@kai-enbutoh.se
Card payment only!
www.fylkingen.se
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KAI-EN BUTOH WORKSHOP
Intensive butoh workshop, March 11-12, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
An introduction to the vibrant world of butoh through KAI-EN butoh method.
The method is based on SU-EN butoh method, which is KAI-EN´s training background.
The aim is explicitly artistic - to create a dancing and performing body.
No previous butoh or other dance training is required, though you are expected to work hard both physically and mentally.
The body is the centre of the work.
In butoh, the body and the consciousness are pushed towards an intention of becoming other - other living beings, organic processes and forces. Butoh evokes an intense relation with the world through all senses. Through this process the body's relationship to the world is shifted. The body and the space becomes alive.
KAI-EN´s work engage in the subtle but radical qualities of becoming.
Through erasure, withdrawal and surrender, the body’s conditions of existence in the world are shifted. At its core lies a desire to become landscape - the body´s co-existence with the ever-shifting, diverse and vibrant universe.
March 11-12 2017
10 am - 5 pm
@
C.off
Körsbärsvägen 9 nb
Stockholm, Sweden
Workshop fee: 1 000 SEK
Application deadline: February 1st
Send your application with a short description of who you are and your motivations to:
info@kai-enbutoh.se
Butoh originated in Japan in the late 50´s, in Tokyo´s avant-garde movement. The main founder is considered to be Tatsumi Hijikata. It has since then developed and spread over the world through artists working closely to him, and their students and groups. The work is transmitted from body to body in a teacher/student relation, yet developed through each artists work.
KAI-EN studied with Swedish choreographer and butoh artist SU-EN from 2005-2010.
Through her final examination and solo performance project About Face in 2010, she was given the name KAI-EN (SEA SHELL-GARDEN) which signifies the living link from SU-EN's body and SU-EN butoh method.
SU-EN is the pioneer of butoh in Sweden. She studied in Tokyo from 1988-1994 with the Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo group where the legendary dancer Yoko Ashikawa was choreographing and teaching. The base of SU-EN butoh method was developed from the Shizune/Ashikawa method.
Photo: Björnola Lind 2014
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A BODY SCULPTURE TERRAIN
Body as sculpture, material as sound, sound as landscape
FYLKINGEN
November 3rd, 2016
19:00 prologue
intermission / bar open
19:30 performance
intermission / bar open
21:30 epilogue
Entrance 60 SEK
Card payment only!
www.fylkingen.se
KAI-EN, butoh dancer and choreographer, based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied with Swedish choreographer and butohartist SU-EN 2005-2010.
In 2010, she passed examination through her solo project About Face. The examination gave her the name KAI-EN which shows the living link from SU-EN butoh method and SU-EN ́s body.
Since 2010 she produces work in the name KAI-EN Butoh Company.
Per Åhlund, b. 1976, resides in Stockholm, Sweden where he’s involved in several experimental music-, improvisation- and sound art-projects.
His live soundscapes blur the boundaries between noise and music, stillness and hysteria, darkness and light.
He create compositions on the verge of dissolving and focuses on mood and texture rather than tonality and rhythm.
Live he use contact microphones, gadgets, loops and effects to form abstract sound environments created in the moment.
His live performances are often based on old radios, voice, newly found objects and junk used as instruments.
www.perahlund.se
Photo: © KAI-EN Butoh Company
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KAI-EN BUTOH WORKSHOP
Intensive butoh workshop, May 5-8, Stockholm, Sweden.
This workshop is an introduction to the vibrant world of butoh through KAI-EN butoh method.
The method is based on SU-EN butoh method, which is KAI-EN´s training background.
The aim is explicitly artistic - to create a dancing and performing body.
The body is the centre of the work.
In butoh, the body and the consciousness are pushed towards an intention of becoming other - other living beings, organic processes and forces. Butoh evokes an intense relation with the world through all senses. Through this process the body's relationship to the world is shifted. The body and the space becomes alive.
KAI-EN´s work engage in the subtle but radical qualities of becoming.
Through erasure, withdrawal and surrender, the body’s conditions of existence in the world are shifted. At its core lies a desire to become landscape - the body´s co-existence with the ever-shifting, diverse and vibrant universe.
May 5-8 2016
10 am - 6 pm
@
C.off
Körsbärsvägen 9 nb
Stockholm, Sweden
Workshop fee: 1 800 SEK
Application deadline: April 1st
Send your application with a short description of who you are and your motivations to:
info@kai-enbutoh.se
No previous butoh or other dance training is required, though you are expected to work hard both physically and mentally.
Butoh originated in Japan in the late 50´s, in Tokyo´s avant-garde movement. The main founder is considered to be Tatsumi Hijikata. It has since then developed and spread over the world through artists working closely to him, and their students and groups. The work is transmitted from body to body in a teacher/student relation, yet developed through each artists work.
KAI-EN studied with Swedish choreographer and butoh artist SU-EN from 2005-2010.
Through her final examination and solo performance project About Face in 2010, she was given the name KAI-EN (SEA SHELL-GARDEN) which signifies the living link from SU-EN's body and SU-EN butoh method.
SU-EN is the pioneer of butoh in Sweden. She studied in Tokyo from 1988-1994 with the Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo group where the legendary dancer Yoko Ashikawa was choreographing and teaching. The base of SU-EN butoh method was developed from the Shizune/Ashikawa method.
Photo: Cecilia Nygren 2011
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Mineral Bodies
Härnösands Konsthall
2015
May 30th, 1 pm
KAI-EN butoh
Björnola Lind sound
Performance at the opening of the summer exhibitions.
This is the starting point of a collaboration between butoh artist KAI-EN and the artist Björnola Lind.
The artists seeks a contemporary animism - to blur the boundery between the human body and the body of the landscape.
www.harnosand.se/konsthallen
Photo: Björnola Lind and KAI-EN Butoh Company 2014
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Premiere new piece at Fylkingen, Stockholm, January 23-24 2015!
In the dreamer´s garden
Surrounded by darkness all contures are erased.
The consciuosness shifts into a state of dreaming,
the event into a rite, and the body a place of becoming.
In the dreamer´s garden is a softly intense dream.
Through a pulling intensity the spectator is offered a quiet yet radical becoming.
Choreography and dance: KAI-EN
Costume and scenography: KAI-EN
Light: Mikael Tham
Music: Per Åhlund and others
Duration: 40 min
Production: KAI-EN Butoh Company
With support from C.off
Fylkingen – ny musik och intermediakonst
Münchenbryggeriet, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2
T Mariatorget
Fri January 23, 8 pm
Sat January 24, 6 pm
120/100 SEK
Tickets: info@kai-enbutoh.se
Card payment only!
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Read the interview with KAI-EN by Kajsa Sandström
in the latest edition of the new magazine Koreografisk Journal #2
which is now out and available to download.
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