Butoh Dance: PAUSE; Yet Life Goes On / いきつづけるもの(Iki Tsuzukeru Mono)

RenGyoSoh Presents In-Ma Butoh Collaboration Piece, PAUSE; Yet Life Goes On いきつづけるもの (Iki Tsuzukeru Mono) (*watch recommendation: after sunset or dark room.) Performance & Choreography: YOKKO https://www.yokko-online.com https://www.rengyosoh.com Music Composition & Design: PAUL MICHAEL HENRY https://www.paulmichaelhenry.com https://www.unfixfestival.com Videography: KRZYSIEN Video Editing: YOSHIKO SIENKIEWICZ Sound Recording: KRZYSIEN Still Photography: KRZYSIEN https://krzysien.com Costume: DEEPSIKHA CHATTEJEE https://www.deepschatterjee.com ---------- Yokko (Performance & Choreography) is an actor, Butoh & Theatre Artist from Japan. She has performed in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, films and music videos, having won several awards, including “Best One-Woman Show,” “Best Physical Theatre,” “Best Choreography,” and “Best Actress” for Butoh Medea (United Solo 2014, 2015 at Theatre Row, Hollywood Fringe 2018). Butoh Medea has been touring nationally and internationally since 2015. Her full-length choreographed ensemble work, SHINKA received Outstanding Production, Outstanding Choreography & Movement at New York Innovative Theatre Awards 2019, and Outstanding Production of an experimental or a dance piece, Outstanding Choreography at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2018. Other works: Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth received Best International play at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019. She is a recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Fund for her new ensemble work En2019. Music videos: including Ready To Let Go (2019) - Cage The Elephant, AUSENCIAS (2019) - NOIA. The artistic director of a New York-based butoh-theatre group, Ren Gyo Soh. MFA in Acting (The Actors Studio). Paul Michael Henry (Music) is a Scottish performance artist, dancer, and musician. His work is informed by Butoh dance, punk rock, and ritual, and is performed all over the world. Recent projects include SHRIMP DANCE (a multimedia dance work exploring the links between anti-depressants, ecological crisis, and late capitalism), a tour of the United States with Laughter at Being Crushed, touring as a Butoh dancer in France and Japan, the premiere of new performance Mammy at CCA Glasgow, and a new film exploring high rates of male suicide in Scotland and globally called SMITE ME NOW. Michael’s themes are political, social & spiritual, dealing with love, neglect of the body, destruction of the environment, and atrophy of the soul in a consumerist society. He is also the Artistic Director and creator of UNFIX, an evolving and experimental festival platforming ecologically committed performance, dance, music, film, and discussion. UNFIX is intended as a contribution to the waking up of the human species to our predicament in an age of climate change, massive inequality, and crazy consumerism. It is based in Glasgow and is ongoing there and in New York City and Tokyo.