ÿþ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> <title>Yukio SUZUKI official site PROFILE</title> <style type="text/css"> body {margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: black} a {color: #ffffff} /* ³0ó0Æ0Ê0 */ div#container {width: 760px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto} /* Ø0Ã0À0ü0 */ div#header {background-color: #017acd; background-image: url(headprofile.gif); padding: 28px 20px 150px} /* ³0ó0Æ0ó0Ä0 */ div#content {width: 564px; float: right; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 25px} div#content h2 {background-color: #000000; background-image: url(blackbar.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 0.875em; color: #ffffff; line-height: 28px; padding-left: 6px; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0} div#content h3 {background-color: #e0e0e0; background-image: url(gray1bar.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 0.875em; color: #ffffff; line-height: 23px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 0} div#content p {font-size: 0.75em; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; margin-top: 10px} /* µ0¤0É0Ð0ü0 */ div#sidebar {width: 166px; float: left; margin-bottom: 25px} ul.sidemenu {font-size: 0.75em; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; padding-left: 0; line-height: 0} ul.sidemenu li {list-style-type: none} ul.sidemenu li a {display: block; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none; color: #ffffff; background-color: #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #ffffff; padding-left: 10px} ul.sidemenu li a:hover {background-color: #C0C0C0} /* Õ0Ã0¿0ü0 */ div#footer {background-image: url(lineblack.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; width: 760px; margin-top: 0; padding-top: 8px; clear: both} address {font-size: 0.75em; font-style: normal; text-align: center} </style> </head> <body> <!-- ³0ó0Æ0Ê0 --> <div id="container"> <!-- Ø0Ã0À0ü0 --> <div id="header"> <h1></h1> <p></p> </div> <!-- ³0ó0Æ0ó0Ä0 --> <div id="content"> <h2>P R O F I L E</h2> <p></p> <h3>Yukio SUZUKI PROFILE</h3> <p><font size="3"><b>"The new realm of contemporary dance pioneered by Yukio Suzuki, an inheritor of the compeling body movement of butoh"</b> <br></font>00000000(Quotation from website "Performing Arts Network"Japan")</p> <p>KINGYO is a contemporary dance company led by choreographer Yukio Suzuki. The company has created works influenced by butoh, ballet and theater that have been presented in conventional performance venues and visual art spaces, including the International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama and Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History. <br><br> YUKIO SUZUKI began training in butoh in Asbestos House in 1997 and has performed in works by artistssuch as Ko Murobushi, Goro Namerikawa (the starting member of Sankaijuku), and performance group SAL-VANILLA. He founded Kingyo (the Japanese word of goldfish) in 2000. His way of producing dance pieces which do not use established way of body expression, maximizing dancers' characters, get good review among Japanese contemporary world. Recently he has choreographed for other companies including the Tokyo City Ballet, participated in the Asia Dance Conference and led workshops on butoh. He has received numerous honors, including the Lab Award from ST spot (Yokohama), selection in the final performance of Next produced by the Saison Foundation in 2004. Then he advanced to TOKYO Competition #1 and also won maximum number of audience vote in Session House, 'LBP' in 2004. And he received the Audience Award at the Toyota Choreography Award in 2005, and the nomination in the Kyoto Art Center Performing-arts Prize in 2007. And in 2008, his work "Confronting Silence" won the Grand prix at the Toyota Choreography Award. <br><br> He as a performer, producer and choreographer, dose workshops based on Butoh method and contributes to young artists' education. He emphasizes on maximizing characters of each person's body in his workshops and did series of workshops as the resident artist of Session House(Tokyo) in 2005. He creates his programs not only for dancers but also for students and kindergarten children, which lead them to communicate with each other through body; expanding body communication to human relationships, by recognizing their own bodies through dance. He is searching new possibility of body through these activities. </p> <h3>INTENATIONAL FESTIVAL</h3> <p> "agnes b" party 0opening performance0<1999,Italy><br> "La Biennale di Venezia"0opening performance0<1999,Italy><br> "Contemporary dance showcase 0Japan+East Asia0" dance company KINGYO 0dulcinea 0 NYÿJapan Society <2008,USA><br> "Indonesian Dance Festival" Yukio Suzuki solo work[The point of Words] <2008,Indonesian><br> "HongKong Arts Festival Asia Dance Platform" dance company KINGYO[Confronting Silence] Fringe Theater <2009,Hong Kong><br> "2009INCHEON INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL" dance company KINGYO [Confronting Silence] <2009, Korea><br> "Fall Kick-Off Extravaganza"0Yukio Suzuki solo work[Lick the dust] <2010,USA/Seattle><br> "Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival"0Yukio Suzuki solo work [Lick the dust] <2010,USA/Portland><br> "Butoh Festival in CON-SUM" Yukio Suzuki solo work & creation <2011,Germany/Dusseldulf><br> "Sibiu International Theatre Festival" group work [Confronting Silence] <2011, Romania><br> "Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival"0Yukio Suzuki solo work [evanescere] <2011,USA/Portland><br> "20th Korean Dance Festival" dance company KINGYO [a dog's vein] <2011, Korea/Busan><br> "Boulder Butoh Festival 2011" Yukio Suzuki solo work [evanescere] <2011,USA/Colorado><br> </p> </div> <!-- µ0¤0É0Ð0ü0 --> <div id="sidebar"> <ul class="sidemenu"> <li><a href="http://boat.zero.ad.jp/Bulldog-extract/ao_topENGLISH.html">TOP</a></li> <li><a href="http://boat.zero.ad.jp/Bulldog-extract/scedule/scheduleENGLISH.html">SCHEDULE</a></li> <li><a href="http://boat.zero.ad.jp/Bulldog-extract/profile/profileEnglish.html">PROFILE</a></li> <li><a href="http://boat.zero.ad.jp/Bulldog-extract/works/worksENGLISH.html">WORKS</a></li> <li><a href="http://yukiosuzuki.tumblr.com/">SUZU's diary</a></li> <li><a href="http://boat.zero.ad.jp/Bulldog-extract/rink/linkENGLISH.html">LINKS</a></li> <li><a href="http://boat.zero.ad.jp/Bulldog-extract/media/textENGLISH.html">TEXT</a></li> <li><a href="http://boat.zero.ad.jp/Bulldog-extract/contactENGLISH.html">CONTACT</a></li> </ul> <a href="http://my.formman.com/form/pc/BrhU25ruW2dZizdA/"><img src="linkmailbotton.gif" alt="form" border="0"></a> <br> <a href="http://my.formman.com/form/pc/5LtvhhenNGVLUnLQ/"><img src="yoyakubotton.gif" alt="form" border="0"></a> <br> <a href="http://kingyoseisakujimusho.seesaa.net/"><img src="seisakubotton.gif" alt="form" border="0"></a> <br> <a href="http://my.formman.com/form/pc/giSra7hJrcSf76v5/"><img src="productbotton.gif" alt="form" border="0"></a> <br> <a href="http://performingarts.jp/J/art_interview/0903/1.html"><img src="kokusaibotton.gif" alt="form" border="0"></a> <br> <a href="http://www.extravagance.jp/incontro/200711/07_1.html"><img src="vagancebotton.gif" alt="form" border="0"></a> <br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1" color="white"> 0Love vibration promotion0<br> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5_EjAbwHRvg&hl=ja&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5_EjAbwHRvg&hl=ja&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="166" height="136.701"></embed></object><br>!Japan Contemporary Dance Network</font></font> </div> <!-- Õ0Ã0¿0ü0 --> <div id="footer"><font color="#ffffff"> <address>Copyright (C) Kingyo office, All rights reserved.</address></font> </div> </div> </body> </html>