Belonging to a third generation of Butoh artists,
Yumiko Yoshioka has developed a personal style of bodywork called Body
Resonance, which integrates Butoh practice, inspired by Noguchi Taiso
gymnastics and various other Asian training methods to help prepare the body to
receive and transmit dance and creation.
Body Resonance starts from the idea that the world,
including our body and soul, consists of vibrational waves that create constant
resonances like echoes. When we tune our body to that frequency, we receive
images, feelings and sensations accordingly. For this to happen, we need
first to shake off unnecessary tension. In effect, we make a white canvas
of our body to paint new colour on it. I teach this as neutralization,
encouraging a close-to-zero state, scouring off rust and polishing antenna to
catch waves from profound layers of the body. The transformations and
concentrations of dancing break up the eggshell of form. They melt down the
armour of our ego, allowing resonant memories to emerge from our cells that are
floating in the primal liquid of time.
Yumiko Yoshioka is a Japanese Butoh dancer and
choreographer from Tokyo. Since 1988 she has been based in Germany. Yumiko is a
former member of Ariadone, the first female Butoh company, which was founded by
Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda in 1974. In 1978, she performed with Ko and
Carolotta in Paris, LE DERNIER EDEN – PORTE DE L’AU-DELA, the very first Butoh
performance to be presented in a public theatre outside Japan. In 1988 she met
Minako Seki and delta RA’i in Berlin, with whom she founded tatoeba THÉÂTRE
DANCE GROTESQUE. Yumiko
founded the art-formation group " TEN PEN CHii art labor
" with visual artist Joachim Manger (Germany) and music composer, Zam
Johnson (USA).
Many other collaboration with international artists
and dancers encouraged Yumiko to start to unfold her own personal style of
dancing and choreography.
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