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    Sakurako is a conceptual-visual artist, performer and choreographer working worldwide and mostly in situ.  Currently she is  a  long-term artist in residency at the Château Éphémère (near Paris) working solo and leading a dance-theatre company “Re-  United Now-Here” as an artistic director and choreographer. She also gives butoh & dance-theatre workshops according to  Re-United Now-Here method. 

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    Although Sakurako was trained as a conceptual & visual artist, she also has been practicing martial arts and various dance  and  movement techniques after the graduation from the Fine Arts (Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam) in 2008. She studies a  contemporary Japanese dance butoh with various masters around Europe and Japan (Yumiko Yoshioka (JP/DE), Ko  Murobushi (JP), Masaki Iwana (JP/FR), Yukio Waguri (JP), Seisaku Kochi (JP), Ken Mai (JP/FI), Atsushi Takenouchi (JP/IT),  Natsu Nakajima (JP), Katsura Kan (JP) and others as well as the traditional Noh theatre with Naohiko Umewaka in Japan.

 

   Besides conceptual works, site-specific installations, sculpture, photography and video works, since 2011 Sakurako creates live   performances balancing on the edge between performance art, theatre and dance. The works are conceptual with strong visual   elements where the main focus is on presence and the authenticity of movements and gestures. The human condition is the      main subject matter of her works as an ongoing investigation of the body/mind/spirit phenomena.

 

   Sakurako presented her works at various venues worldwide: Tenri, Le 104, Le Cube, Théâtre du Temps, L’Atelier des Vertus  (Paris), OT301, Paradiso, Theatre de Cameleon, Oostblook Theatre and Oude Kerk, Posthoornkerk (Amsterdam), Mažasis  teatras (Vilnius), SCCA Center for Contemporary Arts (Ljubljana), Äkkigalleria  (Jyväskylä), Kuiperdomingos Projects (Berlin),  UrBANGUILD (Kyoto), Plaats Delict Paraplufabriek (Nijmegen), Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn), Cultuur Centrum (Mechelen),  Begijnhof Sint-Elisabeth te Sint-Amasberg (Gent), Volksroom (Brussels), etc. She also participated in various festivals: Nuit  Blanche (Paris),  Juli Dans (Amsterdam), Art Rotterdam, Rappongi Art Night (Tokyo) and Festival d’Aurillac  (France),  Pukkelpop (Belgium), Red Dawns, City of Women (Slovenia) Gogol Fest (Ukraine) “Exit!” Schloss Broellin  (Germany) and  Venice Art Biennale’11 (Italy).

 

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