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Tadashi Endo
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Tadashi Endo director of the Butoh-Center MAMU and the
Butoh-Festivals MAMU in Göttingen - embodies
in the truest sense of
that word the wisdom of both, the Western and Oriental dance and
theatre traditions.
His repertoiry includes No theatre, Kabuki and
Butoh, as well as the traditional forms of Occidental theatre, which he
studied at the Max-Reinhard-Seminar in Vienna.
In this synthesis of
worldwide traditions, Tadashi Endo transcends the boundaries of each,
although butoh's trancelike absorption into oneself continues to be
visible as the stating point of his movement.
In his extraordinary
dances, Tadashi Endo succeeds to express the fields of tension between
Ying and Yang, the male and femal and their ever lasting alteration. He
uses the suggestive power of concentrated movement phrases to explore
the closure of life's cycles.
He opens up a voide space, which can be
either calming or irritating, and in the experience of which the
observer submerges him-/herself into a world beyond time and words:
that is MA. (MA means in Zen-buddhism:"emptyness" and "the space
between the things".)
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In 1989 Tadashi Endo met Kazuo Ohno for the first
time and they both realized a deep mental relationship which is
increasing since then. Tadashi Endo dances his life, his dreams, his
feelings in his very special movements and deep expression. He is
touring all around East- and West-Europe, USA and Japan.
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Tadashi Endo
1947
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born in Peking, Japanese
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1973 - 1976
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study of theatre director
Max Reinhardt Seminar,
Wien
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1989
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met Kazuo Ohno,
since then continuous collaboration
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since 1982 Danceperformances with famous Jazz-musician as:
T. Kondo, A. Takase, M. Sato, K. Umezu, St. Lacy, C. Bauer,
P. Kowald, G. Sommer,
U. Gumpert , G. Gebbia, Gunter Hampel
and many more on following festivals in:
Moers (82 u. 96), München (84), Willisau (85), Leipzig (85 u.87),
Leverkusen (87 u. 88), Salzburg (88), Uzès/Nîmes (90), Athen (93),
Neapel (93), Palermo (93) |
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Choreographies and directories
at the Junges Theater Göttingen,
Deutsches Theater Göttingen,
Staatstheater Hannover,
Luisenburger Festspiele
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1980-86
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leader and director of the
"theater-kooperative northeim"
created pieces:
"Freßsack und die Bremer Stadtmusikanten" (composition and text: Ton-Steine-Scherben),
"Grün" (1rst award of the Deutsche Schülertheatertreffen 1981, Berlin, Germany)
"Krieg der Clowns",
"Hiaburi"
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1992
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"Das Buch von Christoph Columbus"
from Paul Claudel with Willi Praml
(Frankfurt/Main)
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1992
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"Metasequoia" with MAMU DANCE THEATRE (MDT)
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1993
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"Senro" with the MDT
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1995
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"Minotaurus" with the MDT and actors of the Ensemble of
the "Junges Theater Göttingen"
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1997
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"Migration" with the MDT
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2001
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"Migration 01 " with the MDT
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2002
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"OIDIPUS" from Heiner Müller / Hölderlin / Sophokles
Staatstheater Darmstadt,
director: Thomas Krupa
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2002
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"LOHENGRIN" from Richard Wagner
Staatsoper Mainz,
director: Thomas Krupa
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2003
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"SHI ZEN - Seven bowls" with cie LUME
Campinas/Sao Paolo
(nominated to the Shell Award, Brazil 2004 and No Ballet award
Ludwigsburg, Germany in 2005)
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2004
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"BACK PACK" (working title) with the MDT
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2005
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"SOPRO" with Carlos Simioni - LUME
Campinas/Sao Paulo
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"KI ME RA" with the MDT and guests
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Danceperformances (Solo):
1989
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"Erik-Satie-Projekt"
with U.Gumpert (p)
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1990
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"Kami-No-Mai"
with Günther "Baby" Sommer (perc)
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1991
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"MA" (Solo)
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1991
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"Ins Licht Gestorben" Requiem
project
at the memorial festival of W.A. Mozart's 200th birthday,
Festspielhaus Salzburg,
director and producer: Franz Pillinger
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1992
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"Mamuish" with Ko Murobushi & Urara Kusanagi
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1993
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"Shiki" with Peter Kowald (b), Gianni Gebbia
(sax)
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1993
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"Quai Dan" (Solo), compositions and sound Peter Kowald
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1996
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"Das Testament" with G. Nevo (v) and André De Groote (p)
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1996
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"Tasogare" (Solo)
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1996
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"Here and .." with Gianni Gebbia (sax)
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1996
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"Spiegel" with stringquartett Spiegel
in De Single/Antwerpen
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1997
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"Winterreise & Jigoku Hen" with Franz Pillinger (b)
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1997
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"One-Nine-Four-Seven" (Solo)
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1999
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"Kara Da Kara" (Solo)
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2002
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Jokaste in "OIDIPUS" from Heiner Müller / Hölderlin / Sophokles,
Staatstheater Darmstadt,
director Thomas Krupa
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2003
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"Synapsis - art meets science"
with Sainkho Namtchylak (vocal), Akira Endo (videodesign),
Sam Auinger & Hannes Strobl (compositions and sound),
Frank Kirchhoff (scientific concept)
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performing in :
Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart, Lissabon, Wien,
Salzburg, Palermo, Lugano, Antwerpen, Brüssel, Gent, St. Petersburg,
Puschkin, Kiew, Tallin, Tokyo, Kobe, Turin, Houston/TX, Budapest,
Vilnius, London, Rijkjavik, Jerusalem, London, Tel Aviv, Sao Paolo,
Campinas, Vancouver, Seattle, Paris, Rio de Janeiro etc.
Positions:
Director of the Butoh-Centrum MAMU in Göttingen (Germany),
Artistic
director of the International Butoh-Festivals MAMU in Göttingen and
Tokyo,
Director and choreographer of the cie. MAMU DANCE THEATRE.
Guest professor at:
Highschool of Music and Expressive Arts in
Frankfurt/Main,Germany
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem,Israel
Nucleo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Teatrais,Unicamp, Univsersity Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil
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