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Sankai Juku Directed,Choreographed and Designedby Ushio Amagatsu Brooklyn 30 Lafayette Avenue Academy Brooklyn NY 11217-1486 of Telephone: 718.636.4129 Music Fax: 718.857.2021 Press Department For Further PressInformation William Murray or Heidi Feldman 718.636.4129 BROOKLYNACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM) 1996 NEXTWAVE FESTIVAL AS PARTOF SAM'S 135THANNIVERSARY YEAR (1861-1996) YURAGI IN A SPACE OF PERPETUALMOTION PERFORMEDBY SANKAI JUKU DIRECTED,CHOREOGRAPHED AND DESIGNEDBY USHIO AMAGATSU NOVEMBER 12, 14-16 BAM OPERA HOUSE Returning to New York for the first time since 1990 - the company then performed its critically acclaimed butoh piece Unetsu - Sankai Juku brings its newest dance piece Yuragi, In a Space of Perpetual Motion , to New York. Mystical , ethereal images and phenomenal phys ical control are the characteristics that endear Sankai Juku, the dance compan y from Japan, to a world-wide audience. Yuragi will be presented a t the Broo klyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of the 14th annua l Next Wa ve Festival , sponsored by Philip Morris Compan ies, Inc. , the leading Next Wave sponsor since 1985. Yuragi will be performed November 12 at 7:00pm and November 14 - 16 at 8:00pm at the BAM Opera House , 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Procla imed by Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times as " ...one of the most orig inal and startling dance theater groups ..." Sankai Juku, the five-member butoh dance company from Japan has toured internationall y and has been enthusiastically rece ived by audiences worldwide . Their late st piece, Yuragi, is a combinat ion of stunn ing visua l elements and striking choreography of butoh dance . Butoh evolved as a new dance form in Japan during the l 960's as a reaction to the horrors of World War II. It involves minimal mo vements and stunning feats of athleticism using a combination of dramatic lighting, shadows more ... BAM 135th Anniversary Season is sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. 2 and movement to convey images of human survival amid horrible suffering. Investigating a method of expression appropriate to a new Japan, butoh reflects the feelings of its young generation . Its gestures come from a sensibility that has been restrained by centuries of tradition , unencumbered by the ancient vocabulary of Kabuki and Noh. Sankai Juku founder and artistic director Ushio Amagatsu's own vision has enhanced the understanding of this Japanese dance form. His work is a great departure from the masking of emotions and is premised on a personal expression of suffering. For him, butoh expresses the language of the body rather than being a stylization of movement. Therefore each individual dancer brings his own physical history and method of expression to the art form. Amagatsu's choreography , while enigmatic, has a quality of gentleness interrupted only by sudden sharp movements. With immense self control, the dancers' bodies move slowly and quietly, nearly imperceptible until one realizes that their image has shifted. Sankai Juku presents itself as a mysterious, even baffling entity, using the inner being to conceive symbol ic and ritualistic gestures. As such, meaning remains deeply hidden forcing one into the depths of Japanese tradition, history and spirituality. Before he worked in butoh style, Amagatsu studied classical as well as modern dance. In 1975 he started a series of workshops. From those sessions, he developed Sankai Juku selecting three dancers from the workshop to create the company. The name Sankai Juku can be translated as "studio of mounta in and sea." The company's first ful l scale production, Homage to Ancient Dolls ( 1977) led to the creation of Kinkan Shonen, which was presented in Tokyo in 1978. This production revealed Amagatsu's own vision which has enhanced the understanding of butoh. In 1980 Sankai Juku was invited to perform in the West for the first time. The company went to the Nancy Festival in France and for the next four years remained in Europe where they performed in numerous theaters and festivals. In 1984, they were invited to come to North America where they made their debut at the Toronto International Festival and the L.A. Olympic Arts Festival. Subsequently they have been embraced warmly by audiences throughout Canada and the United States. Their second North American tour was curtailed when Yoshiyuki Takada accidentally died during a performance. The company canceled the remaining engagements and returned home, some to Japan, others to Paris. The company has toured Boston, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati , Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Seattle and New York City. Yuragi by Sankai Juku is directed , choreographed and designed by Ushio Amagatsu, music by Yas-Kaz and Yoichiro Yoshikawa. Dancers are Ushio Amagatsu , Semimaru, Toru Iwashita, Sho Takeuchi, and Taketeru Kudo. The piece was originally co-produced by Theatre de la Ville, Paris - CNDC Angers, Ginza Saison Theatre, Tokyo and Sankai Juku and world premiered at the Theatre de la Villa, Paris in May 1993. North American Management by International Production Associates, Inc. more ... 3 Yuragi, directed, choreographed and designed by Ushlo Amagatsu and performed by Sankal Juku will be presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part the 14th annual 1996 Next Wave Festival, November 12 at 7:00pm and November 14 - 16 at 8:00pm at the BAM Opera House, at 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. Ticket prices are $50, $35 and $20. Single tickets for the 1996 Next Wave Festival may be purchased after September 7 at the BAM Box Office at 30 Lafayette Avenue or over the phone by calling Ticketmaster at 212.307.4100. For information concerning BAM subscriptions, the 1996 Next Wave Festival performances or reservations on the BAMBus, sponsored by Brooklyn Union , call 718.636.4 100. BAM Prefers VISA. Special support provided for Sankal Juku • Yuragl by The Harkness Foundations for Dance and the Consulate General of Japan. The tour for Sankai Juku has been made possible through the cooperation of Japan-United States Friendship Commission , Mitsubishi Motors and Shiseido. BAM 135th Anniversary Season is sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. The 1996 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. The Brooklyn Academy of Music gratefully acknowledges generous support for the Next Wave Festival from donors of the following special funds, which have been established for The Campaign for BAM: NEXTWAVE Forward Fund Philip Morris/Founding Sponsor -- "Supporting the Spirit of Innovation" The Bohen Foundation Michael Bancroft Goth Endowed Annual Performance Fund The Charles and Valerie Diker Dance Endowment Fund The Marion Petschek Smith Fund for Choreographers 1996 Next Wave Festival Supporters: The Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden ; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; Hermes; The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation , Inc. ; The Haro ld and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Visa U.S.A. Inc .; The Pew Charitable Trusts: The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Associat ion Franc;aise d'Action Artistique and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York; The Harkness Foundations for Dance; The Robert W. Wilson Foundation Inc .; The Henry Luce Foundation , Inc .; Air France; AT&T;The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Dow Jones & Company , Inc., The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Telerate , Barron's Magazine, Dow Jones News Services; The Ford Foundation ; Metropolitan Life Foundation ; The Rockefeller Foundation; Jonathan F.P. and Diana Rose; The Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc.; The Howard Gilman Foundation; Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York; Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust; New Yorker Magazine; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation , Inc./ The New York Information Technology Center; New York Mercantile Exchange more ... 4 Independence Savings Bank; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts ; Forbes Inc.; Starrett at Spring Creek , managed by Grenadier Realty Corp .; New York Magazine; Bowne of New York; Interview Magazine: Con Edison: The Greenwall Foundation; Union Europeenne de CIC France Telecom North America; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation ; Australian Consu late Gene ral Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation ; Consu late General of Japan Harper & Case, Ltd.; Time Warner , Inc .; The Arch W. Shaw Foundation; Canadian Consulate General Quebec Government House in New York; Capezio-Ballet Ma kers Dance Foundation Inc. ; The Cowles Charitable Trust; Meet The Composer: Club France; Italian Cultural Institute; Dance Ink: BAM 135th Anniversary Committee ; BAM Chairman 's Circle ; BAM Producers Council; BAM Associates ; Friends of BAM The BAM facility is owned by the City of New York and its operation is made possible , in part , with public funds provided through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from the Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council and Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden. 8/15/96 YURAGI.DOC The Zeisler FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Group Contact: Eric Latzky 212-807-6480 The Exquisite Mystery of SANKAI JUKU Ushio Amagatsu, Direction and Choreography 18-City U.S. And Canadian Tour, September 26 -December 3, By The Internationally Celebrated Butoh Dance Company From Japan, To Feature YURAGI: IN A SPACE OF PERPETUAL MOTION, A North American Premiere PART OF THE 1996 BAM/ NEXT WA VE FESTIVAL - FIRST NEW YORK VISIT IN 5 YEARS L.A.'s Wiltern Theater, Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall, New Orleans Ballet, And Toronto's O'Keefe Center Among Many Noted Venues "Hypnotically beguiling ," wrote D.P. Steams in USA Today of an earlier American visit by Sankai Juku, Ushio Amagatsu's "second generation" Butoh dance company . Greatly distinguished in Japan, critically celebrated throughout Europe and internationally , Sankai Juku returns to the United States and Canada this fall for their fifth North American visit to present Yuragi: In a Space of Perpetual Motion (North American premiere ). The five-member troupe, headed by Amagatsu, will visit eighteen cities in the U.S.
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