New York Butoh Institute
presents
A Free Virtual Butoh Festival Series
Saga Kobayashi-photo by Kazuo Yamashita
Oct 2–Oct 12, 2021:
SAGA KOBAYASHI
In Being Jealous of A Dog’s Vein: An Adaptation
Winner of Japan Dance Critics Society Award 2017
Available at www.vimeo.com/vangeline
FREE
This piece was created for the 30th anniversary of Tatsumi Hijikata’s death and performed on Saga Kobayashi’s 70th birthday.
Saga Kobayashi. (Born in Mie Prefecture in 1946). In 1969, she began to study butoh under Tatsumi Hijikata in Tokyo after studying modern dance in Nagoya. She appeared in many of Hijikata’s works from the end of the 1960s to the early 1970s, with Yoko Ashikawa, Momoko Nimura, Koichi Tamano, and Yukio Waguri. She played an important part in the establishment of Hijikata Butoh in the 1970s by appearing in“Twenty-Seven Nights for Four Seasons” held at Art Theater Shinjuku Culture, and the opening performance of Seibu Theater “The Quiet House.” Later, she founded the butoh company, Comet Club. In 1983, she toured Europe with Yoko Ashikawa. Besides her own performances of solo and group, she collaborates with music, video, and theater artists. She also cooperates with the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive at Keio University Art Center launched in 1998. She is still teaching, choreographing, and performing today.
Publications:
Ume no sunakusa --Words of Butoh-- Publisher: Atelier Third
Awards:
Dance Critics Society of Japan Prize in 2017 for From Being Jealous of a Dog's Vein: an adaptation”
CREDITS
Performed on November 4, and5, 2016 at D-Warehouse in Tokyo.
Choreographed and performed by Saga Kobayashi.
Cast: Saga Kobayashi, Huku Enoki, Jiru Inubouzaki. Tohru Komatsu, Taira Irie, Yumi Sagara, Nana Yokosuberi.
Special Cast: Tosiyuki Tanigawa.
Lighting Technician: Atsuko Uno.
Music: Hirokazu Hiraishi.
Sound: Yukio Saegusa.
Stage Design: Mantamu.
Stage Director: Kenji Miyao.
Planning and Production: NOSURI.
Director of Photography and Editing: Osamu Goto, Rikima Goto.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.