minako seki - dancing between

Beschreibung

Minako Seki was born in Nagasaki, Japan. Since 1985 she danced in Tokyo with the Company 'DanceLoveMachine', with whom she came to Europe in 1986 on an invitation of the Berlin Arthouse Bethanien. She stayed in Berlin and in 1987 she became Co-founder and Director of “tatoeba - TÉÂTRE DANSE GROTESQUE”, the first Japanese-German Butoh-Ensemble. She further develops the style of this group, which amongst other characteristics focuses on the sleeping potentials in human beings, in 48 productions as a dancer, choreographer and director.

Since 1996 she has focused more on her own company where she has continuously been looking for the friction in crossing art disciplines. For example, she choreographed the opera 'Endlösung' by Peter Michael Hamel, and worked with the projections designer and light painter Gustav Gisiger. She is also involved in intensive teaching: since 1990 she has been teaching at the 'tanzfabrik Berlin”, 1992-1999 at 'teatret cantabile2 - School Of Stage Arts' in Denmark and 1999-2003 at National Academy Norway.
She and her ensemble had in April 2005 premiere with Borderless Split Brain in Berlin, which was sponsored by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and in March 2006 with “Memories To Undressed Persons” in New Nationalgallery in Berlin. In 2007 Minako Seki was guest professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen/ Germany. At the Beginning of this year (2008) the project “Kosmos in Movement” (K.I.M.) – a world wide school of moving arts – has been brought into being by Minako Seki and Elias Cohen (Physical Theatre).
Her newest productions are “Shoshin The Undercover Elephant” (2008), which was shown for the first time at Teatro San Gines, Santiago de Chile and 'Tenkai - The way to Heaven'


Cooperation with
Michael Hamel, Sven Väth, Elliot Sharp,
N.U. Unruh (Einstürzende Neubauten), Zam Johnson, Dudu Tucci,
Gustav Gisiger, Nullo Facchini, Uwe Renken, Martin-Karl Wagner,
Yumiko Yoshioka, Schiller, Willem Schulz


Price
“Best Dance Solo” – Festival for Contemporary Theatre, euroscene Leipzig, Nov 2000

Nomination “Kurt-Jooss-Price” – as Choreographer with her Solo “Schicht”, 2001, Press “tanzdrama” (May 2001)

Film
'Ju-ni hitoe, or the discover of the soul', 1993

mentioned in the Berlinale 1993. This film got the award especially valuable in the Saarbrücken-Film festival games 1994.
Minako seki, Choreographer and Performer

'The Bomb, Who Changed The World' (Hiroshima)
Film by Paul Wilmshurst BBC / ZDF 2005, Halfdocumentation with u.o. Minako Seki


Important stations of Minako Seki:
PARCO-theatre Tokyo
Theatre-festival Antwerpen
Academy of Arts, Berlin
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, first big Butoh-Festival in Europe 'Movements' Klagenfurt
Documenta IX, Kassel
North Sea Festival of Contemporary Arts
Stavanger, Norway
IMMT-Festival, Budapest, Hungaria
Musikfestspiele Dresden
Danse Musique Contemporaire, France
Tanzszene Berlin
La Filature, Mulhouse, France
III.Europa-Biennale Niederlausitz
musicfestival on the Forttress, Koblenz
Kanonhallen, Copenhagen
Mousonturm and TAT, Frankfurt
Kampnagel, Hamburg
Butoh and Related Arts Festival in the KünstlerHaus, Bremen
Aurillac Festival, France
Quito-theatre-festival, Ecuador
Butoh-Festival, Göttingen
Aarhus Theatrefestival, Danmark
Finis Terrae, Santiago de Chile
Cave, New York
New Nationalgallery, Berlin
Teatro Beckett, Buenos Aires


Teaching
Since 1990
Regulary Teaching at Tanzfabrik Berlin

1992-1998
Chair at School Of Stage Arts, Denmark

1999-2002
Chair at National Academy for Theatre, Norway

2007
Professorchip at Institute for Applied Theatre Studies,
University Giessen, Germany

Besides she gave workshops all over the world, for example London, Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Antwerpen /Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Chile and all over Germany

Guest-Choreographer and Director

teatret cantabile2 / Denmark
1996 – “Homosapiens”
1997 – “Pentotal”
1998 – “Osmotic Cosmos”, Coproduction with the National Theater School Copenhagen

Antagon-Theatre / Frankfurt am Main
1997 – “Equinox Terminal”
1998 – “Human Form”




More information under:
www.minakoseki.com
www.borderless-split-brain.info
www.myspace.com/dancingbetween
www.ke-hei.org