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| Biography | ||||||||||||
| Kinji Hayashi | ||||||||||||
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| Kinji Hayashi was raised in Tokyo, Japan. A solo Butoh dancer since 1991, has collaborated with numerous artists and groups such as Polish Theater director Miroslaw Kocur and San Francisco playwright Helen Pau. He has performed throughout the Bay Area with the Asian American Theater Company, Theaterworks, and Theater of Yugen. He also toured with HRG in California and with Harupin Ha in Japan and the US. He has received Dance Bay Area's Commissioning Project Grant, Zellerbach Family Fund, City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division's Creative Artist Fellowship, and the Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship. He and Momo received a commission from the American Composers Forum to perform with composer William Ludke.
Caring for turtles is a source of his inspiration in this fast-paced world. |
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| --Ulysses, Circle, Tatsumi, Butoh, Mishima, Ashes, Eros--
when our gestalt-talke was done, I watched him depart, plummeting down the stairs; a clove, by nature debonair-learning to light and air-was, tonight, bound for land. Bird, borne by a gusting score, full tilt, whole being: fatigue leather boots, laces and shirts seeming a multitude of leashes-solid and shade, spiritand mass-hurled into car and hurtled trhough dark clouds, homebound. by Helen Pau |
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| Photo: Momo | ||||||||||||
| kinji@inkboat.com | ||||||||||||