Sayoko Onishi

Sayoko Onishi (born April 24, 1968) is a butoh dancer, choreographer and master from Japan, known for the development of the new butoh style, and the foundation of the International Butoh Academy in Palermo, Italy.

Life

Sayoko Onishi was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido on April 24, 1968.

In 1986 she started studying butoh dance in the dance company Hoppo-Butoh Ha, with Ipei Yamada. Later she began an intensive artistic activity under the supervision of Hironobu Oikawa, absorbing the choreographic style of butoh dance.[1]

Since 1990 she has lived in Europe working as a professional choreographer and a dancer, teaching and performing all over the world. Her choreographic projects have been funded by the Deutche Oper in Berlin, the Amsterdams Fonds voor de kunst,[2] the University of Palermo,[3] the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.[4]

She has been a guest teacher of butoh and new butoh for the National Academy of Dance,[5] the University of Siena,[6] and the University of Palermo.[7]

In 2000 Sayoko Onishi established in Palermo, Italy where she founded the International Butoh Academy at the presence of master and butoh founder Yoshito Ohno.[8][9] Sayoko Onishi and Yoshito Ohno are credited as being the first butoh choreographers to speak about New Butoh style.[10] The academy name was changed to New Butoh School in 2007.[11][12] In 2018 the New Butoh School established in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy.[13][14][15]

Onishi's active in Europe in the French company Man'ok & Cie in Nancy (France) since 2009 with the project MA2 (Move Art Two).[16][17]

With her new butoh style, Onishi[10] is considered one of the most important innovators in the international butoh panorama.[1][18]

Awards
  • 1st prize at the International Dance Competition in Augusburg ( (Germany)) (1997)
  • 1st prize at the Die Platze contemporary dance competition in Tokyo with her performance "Primavera Siciliana" (2006)

Filmography

Ju-Ni Hitoe oder die Entdeckung der Seele (Documentary, 1994)[19]

Publications
  • L'arte dell'improvvisazione, atto secondo, due interviste di Vito Minoia a Ginevra Sanguigno e a Sayoko Onishi - Proartis, ISSN 1594-3496
  • Catarsi : teatri delle diversità : rivista europea, A. 2015, n. 68-69, p. 40-41, "New Butoh al profumo di zagara : Sayoko Onishi" di Eugenia Casini Ropa - ISSN 1594-3496[20]

References
  1. "eX...it!'19 international dance-eXchange and performance festival – august 2019". exit.broellin.de. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  2. "Animal Inside Cultures clip-fr". Tebby W.T. Ramasike – TeBogO Dance (in French). Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  3. "Studio L.U.M. dell'attore – ISCRIZIONI CHIUSE". unipa.it (in Italian). Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  4. "compagnia Dulcamara Teatro | Sosta Palmizi". www.sostapalmizi.it. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  5. "Bio Sayoko Onishi". hangartfest (in Italian). Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  6. "Il Personaggio/ Sayoko Onishi la danzatrice butoh che ama Rosa Balistreri". Accentonews.it (in Italian). February 4, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  7. "A PALERMO – NEW BUTOH SCHOOL". Scomunicando (in Italian). March 5, 2011. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  8. Whelan, Christal (March 25, 2014). Kansai Cool: A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462914128.
  9. Casari, Matteo; Cervellati, Elena (September 28, 2015). "Butō. Prospettive europee e sguardi dal Giappone". dar.unibo.it (in Italian). Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  10. franciscasousa (September 21, 2015). "Dusk and Soil: New Butoh". Butoh Thoughts. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  11. The unconscious roots of creativity. Madden, Kathryn Wood. Asheville, North Carolina. 2016. ISBN 9781630513863. OCLC 953927527.CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. "Foto spettacoli e libri una settimana dedicata la Giappone – Parma – Repubblica.it". Parma – La Repubblica. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  13. "New Butoh Dance Workshop con Sayoko Onishi". marchespettacolo.it. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  14. Fracchiolla, Veronique (May 2, 2019). "Successo per il primo workshop di new butoh. Mimma Di Vittorio: "Grande emozione"". Ruvesi.it (in Italian). Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  15. "Official website". New Butoh School. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  16. Ouest-France, Par (February 16, 2016). "Danse à Flers. Vidéo. Eden, Eden, Eden, de la compagnie Man'ok". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  17. Sarrat, Yoann (March 16, 2017). Transgression et littérarité : l'oeuvre de Pierre Guyotat et son influence sur les milieux artistiques et littéraires (phdthesis thesis) (in French). Université Clermont Auvergne.
  18. Cervellati, Elena. "Il butō: declinazioni europee". Hystrio. 1 (2012): 50. ISSN 1121-2691.
  19. Ju-Ni Hitoe oder die Entdeckung der Seele, retrieved January 15, 2020
  20. Casini-Ropa, Eugenia (January 13, 2020). "New Butoh al profumo di zagara : Sayoko Onishi / di Eugenia Casini Ropa". opac.sbn.it (in Italian). Retrieved January 15, 2020.
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