FEATHERHEAD

Featherhead presents a live collaboration between choreographer Gyohei Zaitsu (Japan), Itaru Oki (Japan) and Trevor Knight (Ireland). This performance is based in Butoh: a dance form developed in post-war Japan that rejects Eastern and Western dance conventions, expressing intense emotions through slow, controlled, and sometimes distorted movements.

Trumpeter Itaru Oki hails from a rich musical background: his father was a player of the Shakuhachi (bamboo flute), while his mother was a master of the Koto (horizontal harp). Carving out a pioneering role
for himself in the free jazz scene in Japan, he began touring Europe with ESSG in 1965 and later relocated to France; nonetheless his music continues to reflect the environment in which he was raised.

A founding member of avant-garde pop group Auto da Fe, Trevor Knight has since performed and recorded with a wide variety of artists including Roger Doyle, Philip Lynott, Luka Bloom, Mary Coughlan and Leo O’Kelly. He has composed music and created sound-design for more than 50 theatrical productions (as well as for RTE and for Channel 4). In September thus year he provided a live soundtrack for an unusual version of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince at The Electric Picnic; other recent musical collaborations included The Dark Angel with Camille O'Sullivan (Spiegeltent Dublin 2003 & Edinburgh 2005).

Choreographer Gyohei Zaitsu has performed over 200 improvised and experimental solo pieces in Europe and Japan. He works on both solo and group creations as a choreographer while continuing his own personal research into the body and dance. In 2001 he founded his own
Butoh dance research workshop.

 

DEAF presents Featherhead

Artists: Featherhead presents a live collaboration between Gyohei Zaitsu(Japan): Butoh dancer, Itaru Oki (Japan):trumpet and accessories and Trevor Knight (Ireland): keyboard /electronics.

Date: Sunday October 28th

Venue: Dance Ireland

Address: Dance House, Liberty Corner, Foley Street, Dublin 1. Tel:
+353.1.855.8800

Admission: €15

Time: 7pm

Tickets available from: Dance House, Liberty Corner, Foley Street, Dublin 1. Tel: +353.1.855.8800 and available online from http://www.tickets.ie

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