Shinkai no tamashīi

Event Date: Saturday, August 3 · 8 - 9:30pm CDT

Chicago Premiere

深海の魂

Shinkai no tamashīi

深海に生き続ける死者の魂。

あらゆる波のうねりは彼らの叫び。

The souls of the dead live in the depths of the sea.

Every roar of the waves is their cry.

About Tadashi Endo

Elève of the great butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, is a Butoh-dancer, choreographer, director of the Butoh-Centre MAMU and artistic director of the Butoh-Festivals MAMU Butoh & Jazz in Göttingen. He has coined his own way of Butoh dance which he calls “Butoh-MA”. MA is a very important word in zen buddhism, which has two meanings: the “emptiness” and “the space between the things”. Butoh-MA is one way to find the invisible visible. He believes the minimum of movements lets the expression of feelings and situations grow to highest intensity. For this work, it is more important to keep the balance between energy, tension and control than to care for the aesthetics of movement.

His dance is a synthesis of theatre, performance and dance. Tadashi Endo expresses the field of tension between ying and yang, male and female, and their everlasting alteration. “He manages to fill that void with a poetic beauty, precision movement and spiritual flavor. It`s like cut grass and cut glass, one smells good and brings back memory, the other cuts into you leaving a scar.” David Carter

Tadashi Endo collaborates with Germany’s most popular film- and opera director DORIS DÖRRIE, as choreographer for the opera Madame Butterfly (Theater am Gärtnerplatz München 2006), for the cinema film HANAMI-KIRSCHBLÜTEN (2007), the opera ADMETO (International Haendel Festival Göttingen and International Festival Edinburgh 2009) and DON GIOVANNI (Hamburgische Staatsoper 2011, 2012). In all these productions Tadashi Endo also appears as a solo dancer.

Since 2009 he is in continuous collaboration with Italy’s prima ballerina assoluta CARLA FRACCI, in “I HAVE A DREAM” (Teatro Massimo/Palermo Sicily 2009), and FUTURISMO (Teatro Nazionale in Rome, Italy 2010).

Tadashi Endo is a guest professor at the Hochschule für Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany, The Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Israel, and at the Nucleo Interdisciplinar des Pesyuisas TeatrUnicamp, University Campinas, Brazil.

Watch an interview with Tadaashi Endo here: https://www.routledgeperformancearchive.com/multimedia/video/concerning-butoh-kazuo-ohno-and-respect

Asian Improv aRts Midwest

Address: 4875 N Elston (east side of the street, just north of Lawrence) Asian Improv aRts Midwest (Google Map) is located in the North Mayfair / Albany Park area. CTA Bus #81 Jefferson Park Blue Line services the neighborhood, with the nearest stop a 3min walk/roll away. CTA Bus #78 Harlem services the neighborhood, with the nearest stop a 14min walk/roll away.

·Parking: Artists may park in the small lot directly behind the building or use street parking. Note that the side streets are one-ways and provide a free option. Parking on Elston is metered.

The space is ADA accessible, meaning there are ramps and seating.

A Note from AIRMW about Protecting the Special Floor: All shoes, footwear, and wheels should be clean of dirt, mud, liquid, and grease. A shower and entryway are provided to clean things off. No rosin, tack, glitter, powder, or liquids should be used on the floor. If needing to mark the floor for spacing, only use Painters Tape. When possible, artists are asked to dry mop after using the space. Note that in Japanese culture, it is respectful to remove shoes when entering a space such as this, but it is not a requirement

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