Before creating choreography, Ko and Shinichi addressed an invited audience at MANCC in 2009 to describe intentions behind Crazy Cloud.
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My farming instructor and dance teacher are one and the same—Min Tanaka. Min has encouraged me to regard farming as both physical and mental training, similar to that of a…
Collaboration between inkBoat and ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Featuring Shinichi Iova-Koga and Yuko Kaseki. Video by Eric Koziol. Direction by Ernie Lafky. Lighting by Allen Willner
If I go into nature, that is inspiring to me, it elevates me and gives me the strength to continue with the life struggle, but I do not put the…
Jenny Schaffer talks with Shinichi Iova-Koga about how Action Theater has influenced his work.
Email Interview with Paul Roquet Paul Roquet: What interests me still about Butoh is the use of an array of techniques to thwart all attempts at intellectual interpretation. The grotesque,…
“Yuko Kaseki and Shinichi Iova-Koga, the Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire of Butoh, come together in inkBoat’s Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts….
“Call them postmodern, postminimalist Butoh artists and you might come close to capturing the style of inkBoat. Or call them nothing at all and allow yourself to be seduced by…