Sayoko Onishi

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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.

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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 Deutsche 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  [ it ], [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

Filmography

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

Publications

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