Sachiko Ishikawa

    Nationalität: Japan

    Adresse: Paris - Frankreich

    Blog: www.butohartwaves.blogspot.com

Born in Japan in 1969.
    Started theatrical training at 15 years old in high school, and experienced different style of theaters including musical and organic ones in university and other places, seaching “What is real and deeply necessary for me”, and  arrived to start butoh dance in 1992 with Tetsuro Fukuhara, and with Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno after.
    Also learned Noguchi Taiso by Shingo Kikuchi and Mitsuru Setojima with training of theater.
    Moved the base in Paris since 2005.
    Continuous project of dance performance on the street in France since 2003 with a French performer Thierry Castel, on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement » « Meditation in movement » is now counted more than 500 days.
    Her own creation: duo: “Un Adieu (An Adieu)” with Thierry Castel,  “Somtimes When the Bird Sings” with Carey Jeffries, etc.
Solo: “Arazaram”, “Après le Rêve(After the Dream)”etc.
    Danser and choreogprapher of Compagnie MA.
    Artistic director of  « Butoh sans Frontières ».



ARTISTIC RECORD      _____ _
Public performance
1992    - Butoh “The Future of the Wild Nature ” with Tetsuro Fukuhara in Tokyo
1994        - Butoh “Affinity” with Tetsuro Fukuhara in Paris
2000    - Butoh “Space Dance, Body of the Future” with Tetsuro Fukuhara in London
2002    - Butoh “Katachi-to-Kokoro”  with Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno in Tokyo
2003        - Butoh “Umi-yo,Umi-yo” with Yoshito Ohno and Perry Yung
in Yokohama(Japan)
    - Street performances in France, on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement »  with Thierry Castel
    - Butoh “Taisetsu-na hito” at Kiryu(Japan), with Yoshito Ohno
    - Dance Theater  “Traktor /Tropes” with company Imageopera, with Kairi Wakikawa in Tokyo
2004        - Street performances in France, on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement », with Thierry Castel
2005    - Butoh theater “Taï-dô” with company Mitoh-geki and Midoh Ohmura in Tokyo
    - Solo creation “Habataki tawamureru tori-no you-ni (Like a bird, flappng and frolicking about)”  in Tokyo
- Duo creation with Christina Lederhaas, with musicians Georg Gratzer and  Thomas Mauerhofer in Weiz in Austria (art festival in Weiz “pfingst Art“)    
    - Street performances in France, on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement », with Thierry Castel
- Butoh “Stone” with Atsushi Takenouchi, at Avignon (theater festival)
2006      - Street performances in France, on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement » « Meditation in movement »  with Thierry Castel
2007    - Street performances in France, on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement » « Meditation in movement »  with Thierry Castel
- Duo creation of the part of dance part for musical episode-theater  “Carysfort Stories” with Georg Gratzer, Thomas Mauerhofer, Pelado,  and Christina Lederhaas, in Weiz, Vienne and  Londron
2008    - Duo creation of butoh “Un Adieu (A Farewell)” with Thierry Castel in Paris
- Street performances in France, on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement » « Meditation in movement »   with Thierry Castel
- Solo creation of butoh “Après le Rêve (After the Deam)” at Mirande in France
2009        - Butoh “Sou-ma-toh (Magic Lantern)” with Atsushi Takenouchi, in Paris
- Solo creation of butoh “Arazaram”, in Paris
(awarded the first prize of the audience in dance festival at Espace Culturel Bertin Poirée)
- Butoh Improvisation with Marianela Leon Ruiz, Yana Schmergel,
Nathhalie Lenclos, and musician Michel Titin-Schnaider at Brunoy in France
- Solo creation of butoh “Ici, là, et là-bas (Here, there, and over there)”, with Pablo Altés with his video images and musics, in Paris
- Street performances in France , on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement » « Meditation in movement »  with Thierry Castel
- Solo remake of butoh “Arazaram” long version, in Paris
- Duo creation of butoh “Sometimes When the Bird Sings”,
with Carey Jeffries in Paris
- Duo creation of butoh “Brume de Cristal (Cristal Mist)”, with Thierry Castel in Paris    
2010        - Solo butoh “Arazaram”, at Bilbao in Spain
- Organise a new festival of butoh « Butoh Sans Frontières » in Paris
- Duo butoh  “Brume de Cristal” with Thierry Castel in Paris (awarded the second prize of the audience in dance festival at Espace Culturel Bertin Poirée)
- Recitaion of haiku (Japanese poem)  in Paris
- Street performances in France, on the theme of « Body sculpture in movement » « Meditation in movement »   with Thierry Castel
 - Duo creation of butoh “Lune d’Opium (Opium Moon)” with Thierry Castel in Paris
 - Butoh improvisation with Jun Makime with his video image
“Rakuen wo mitsumete, soshite…(Gazing away the paradise, and…)” in Tokyo
- Improvisation performance with Yasha, with musician Cathy Heydou in Paris
2011             - Organise improvisation dance performance “Butô Carrosse” in Paris
        - Collaboration with Kan Katsura “Senryu Butoh Performance” in Paris
- Organise a festival of butoh « Butoh Sans Frontières » in Paris,
- Remake of solo butoh “Après le Rêve (After the Dream)”, in Paris



Training, workshop
1984-7        Activities in a theater club at Kunitachi High School in Tokyo
1988        Students’ union of musical comedy at Waseda University in Tokyo
1989        Students’ union of theater at Waseda University in Tokyo
1989-91    Organic theater group « Theater Plan Terra » by Hideki Hayashi in Tokyo
1992-3    Noguchi taiso (Noguchi gymnastics) and theater training at  « Ningen to Engeki Kenkyujo (Institute of Human and Theater) » by Shingo Kikuchi ( one of favorite pupil of Toshiharu Tekeuchi ) in Tokyo
1992-2000    Butoh regular class by Tetsuro Fukuhara in Tokyo
1993 et 97     Workshops of butoh by Tôru Iwashita (Sankaijuku) in Tokyo
1999-    Butoh regular class by Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno in Yokohama (Japan)
2002        Workshop of contemporary dance by Jean-Laurent Sasportes (Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausche)
2002, 03    Workshops of butoh by Masaki Iwana in Tokyo, and in Normandy (France)
2003-        Technique of corporal mime by Thierry Castel
2003,05,06,09    Workshops of butoh by Atsushi Takenouchi in France
2006-        Workshops and sessions of contact dance with Carey Jeffries, etc.
2007        Workshop of butoh by Joan Laage in Paris
2008        Workshop of butoh by Moeno Wakamatsu in Paris
2009        Workshop of Afro-Butoh by Tebby Ramasike in Paris
2009        Workshop of dance improvisation by Fabienne Menjucq and Carey     Jeffries at Gillue in Spain
2009    Workshop of butoh and Noguchi taiso by Torifune Butoh-sha, Kayo Mikami,         Yukio Mikami, and Seisaku at Ohiso in Japan
2010        Workshop of Noguchi taiso by Mitsuru Setojima in Tokyo in Japan