“The simplicity and rigor of the tiny gestures appeared to come from somewhere outside time. The force with which they repeatedly fell or threw themselves to the floor looked propelled by more than earthly gravity.”
-Rita Felciano, Dance View Times
Butoh Dance Archives - inkBoat
““95 Rituals,” a perambulatory birthday tribute to the modern dance pioneer devised by physical theater and dance company inkBoat… mix humor, introspection, playfulness and memory with fearless gestures and thoughtfully crafted drama.” – Mary Ellen Hunt, SF Chronicle, 2015
Chris Brown and Shinichi Iova-Koga performing an improvisation in honor of Anna Halprin’s 96th birthday.
UNUSUAL PRESENCE A 3-day workshop with Shinichi Iova-Koga for developing your responsive, unexpected and resilient body through the practices of Shinichi Iova-Koga and Action Theater. In this workshop, various proposals…
COURSE DESCRIPTION The Wild Thing activates the electric presence necessary for all performative arts. This workshop combines deep somatic awareness work with the imagistic play available in Butoh dance, the detailed…
In this dance/movement/physical theater workshop we will play with the polarities of deep internal listening and the external, extended relationships between the body, partners and the environment. The modalities we…
Contemporary and traditional Japanese performance practices juxtaposed with the improvisation practice known as Action Theater™ A 2-day workshop taught by Shinichi Iova-Koga Saturday, September 23: 10am – 2pmSunday, September…
Dance on Land, 2018 Becoming Imagination changes the quality of what you do and opens a field of unexpected actions. At the same time, noticing what IS leads to inexhaustible…
Invited by Janice Ross at Stanford University, Shinichi presents a perspective on the Japanese Avant Garde dance popularly called Butoh.
November 2009, New York City We meet in the studio because this is one of those rare places- in which we can dis-assemble and re-assemble meaning and still come out…