Site-specific, Performance art, Butoh, Spiritual, Dance, Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

Tough Times Bring Treasure (Otera-Odori-Ocha Session 3)

Agaxart (Japan)

Not only dancers but also monks and a tea master are born to dance. This is the story of a tea master who travels to another world within himself, and returns reborn. As he prepares Matcha tea, he meets himself. There is a deep connection between Japanese tea ceremony and Zen. Agaxart produces innovative Butoh performances based on Emiko Agatsuma’s Butoh method and aesthetics, examining the interaction between body, mind and soul. Agaxart creates Butoh performances to deliver the diversity of the physical expression that is connected to the unconsciousness.

Performed by
Butoh Dancers | Emiko Agatsuma and Tomoshi Shioya
Japanese Tea Master | Souryou Matsumura
Dancing Monks | Masaomi Tomomitsu and Tatsuo Yoshida

Directed by | Emiko Agatsuma
Music by | Kenichirou Tsukiyama

Videography and Editing by | Ai Katoh
Photos by | Naoko Kumagai
Production Manager | Yeoreum Han
Produced by | Team Otera-Orodi-Ocha, AGAXART

Special Thanks | Vanryu-ji, Shuhally

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www.instagram.com/emiko.agatsuma
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Watch Trailer

• Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• £10.00
• 1 August 2022
• 36 minutes
• C ARTS | C venues | C digital
• portal – on demand
• 8+ (guidance)