by Nyoba Kan
The 9th Nyoba Kan International Butoh Festival 2016 pulls together practitioners of different backgrounds from theatre, dance, music, design, installation art, to video art. An art form blends into another to transform its potential and to accelerate its capacity to create meaning, experience, and idea. Dancers, performers, musicians, designers, and artists work together to explore the process and collaboration of different disciplines. By bridging multiple art forms, practitioners interact with and respond to each other’s social space to create a multi sensory festival.
As the world celebrates Shakespeare’s 400th Anniversary, Nyoba Kan has conceived a production based on William Shakespeare’s Richard III — with a Butoh injection and interpretation.
As passionate Butoh practitioners in Malaysia, we have a strong desire to communicate and interact with Japanese Butoh Artistes; to work, to collaborate and learn from one another, in an effort to achieve the best possible outcome in our work. Thus this year we have invited a young, up and coming Butoh artiste Nobuyoshi Asai to work with us in this production " The Plots of a Tyrant" , together with local and German composer, Yii Kah Hoe & Max Riefer. We hope to cultivate a platform of exchange where it can also provides an opportunity for Japanese Butoh Artistes to learn about ‘Butoh in Malaysia’.
Category / Theater