PROFILE


Ko Murobushi

English translation cooperation : Electra HUI、Ryoko Gomi

year month Ko Murobushi Profile
1947 ６.１４ Born in Tokyo.
1966 april Graduated Waseda high-school and enterd Waseda University.
1967 - Participated in Oji-field hospitalstruggle.
1968 octber Moved by the performance of Tatumi Hijikata's solo “Hijikata Tatsumi and Japanese - Revellion of the Body”.
1969 - Visited Asbestos Hall and studied with Tatsumi Hijikata.
Performed the film “Horrorsof Malformed Men”（Directed by Teruo Ishii, Acted Tatsumi Hijikata, Toei）
1970 - Trained as Yamabushi（practises acetism）in Debasanzan.
1972 - Co-founder of the Butoh Company ‘DAIRAKUDAKAN’ with Akaji Maro.
1973 octber Performed DAIRAKUDAKAN - TENPUTENSIKI “Youbutsushintan”（Japan Youth Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
1974 - Founded ‘Kaiou Production’.
Performed DAIRAKUDAKAN - TEMPUTENSIKI“Sumeradaikougan”（Tamagawa Hyougojima, Tokyo, Japan）.
octber Performed DAIRAKUDAKAN - TENPUTENSIKI “Danikumonogatari”（Japan Youth Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
Producer-choreographer for the female Butoh group‘ARIADONE’with Carlotta Ikeda.
1975 may Performed DAIRAKUDAKAN - TENPUTENSIKI “Ranchushingi”（Seibu Hall Kyoto University, Japan）.
july Produced ARIADONE “MESKAZAN”（Hokuryukyo-Gotaishicho, Japan）.
1975 -79 - Editor of the Butoh newspaper ‘Hageshii Kisetsu - La Saison Violente’.
1976 - Performed and choreographied SEBI “KOMUSO - Wandering Monk”（Hokuryukyo-Gotaishicho, Fukui, Japan）.
jury Founded male group SEBI after it became indipendent of DAIRAKUDAKAN and opened butoh studio‘Hokuryukyo’.
octber “MESKAZAN VOL.3”（Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan）
november Produced ARIADONE “Blue of Sky”（Yotsuya Kokaido, Tokyo, Japan）
1977 - Performed and choreographied SEBI“HINAGATA”（Hokuryukyo-Gotaishicho, Fukui, Japan）.
octber Produced “IREZUMI - Tatoo” for ARIADONE（Yotsuya Kokaido, Tokyo, Japan）
1978 jan.-feb. Performed and choreographied first butoh creation in Europa “Le Dernier Eden - porte de l'au-dela” for SEBI-ARIADONE（Nouveau Carre-Silvia Monfort, Paris, France）.
may Performed DAIRAKUDAKAN - TENPUTENSIKI “Kazesakashima”（Tamagawa Hyougojima, Tokyo, Japan）.
jury Performed and choreographied SEBI “HINAGATA2 - Nuits sans nuit, Quelques jours sans jours”（Hokuryukyo-Gotaishicho, Fukui, Japan）
1979 jury Performed and choreographied SEBI “HINAGATA3 - Die Welt ist ein Cabaret”（Fukui, Toyama and Kanazawa, Japan）.
1980- Continuously screened ‘Lotus - Cabaret '80’ series in Japan
feb.-mar. Performed and choreographied SEBI “HINAGATA4 - Organ and sulfuric acid”（Omori, Tokyo, Japan）.
april Choreographied “MESKAZAN LOTUS CABARET Z-A 1980＊Zarathustra” for ARIADONE（Akasaka Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
may Performed and choreographied solo “A Mummy（La Momie）”（Akasaka Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
aug Performed and choreographied “Lotus-Summer-Cabaret” for SEBI-ARIADONE（Hokuryukyo-Gotaishicho, Fukui, Tokyo, Japan）.
octber Performed and choreographied “A choreograph of chorea” for SEBI-ARIADONE（Akasaka Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
1981 may Performed and choreographied SEBI “HINAGATA7 - La momie - Hierophany”（Shiba Zoujouzi Hall, Tokyo, Japan）
june Choreographied “Utt” solo for Carlotta Ikeda.
september Opened Experimental space ‘Cabaret Shy’ and opening solo performance “HINAGATAⅦ - Neon or Neant”（Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan）
november- Toured “Zarathustra” in Europe（11 countries, 40 cities）
december Performed and choreographied “LOTUS-CABARET '80s HINAGATA/La Momie” for SEBI-ARIADONE（George Pompidou Center, Paris, France）.
1981-84 november Acted around Paris.
Artistic director of ARIADONE Company.
1983 Performed and choreographied solo “iki-1”（Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris, France）.
octber Choreographied “Utt” solo for Carlotta Ikeda（‘Festival Klap-Stuck’, Belgium）.
Choreographied “La Nuit” for Micel Bruel Ballet（Paris, France）.
1984 june Performed and choreographied solo “iki-２”（Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris, France）.
Continuous dance course ‘Dis Tanz - Butoh of <Outside>’（Tokyo, Japan）.
1985 april Performed and choreographied 12 solo + duo improvisations “EN”（‘Festival BUTO'85’, Espace Kiron, Paris, France）.
june

Choreographied “HI・ME” for ARIADONE（‘Montpellier Dance’, France）.

＊“HI・ME” for ARIADONE（Alabama hall, Munich, Germany）.

octber Performed and choreographied solo “Dehors”（Ibalnarl, Avignon, France）.
octber Performed and choreographied trio “Monsieur KAFKA” with Urara Kusanagi and T.Shimada（Serapion theater, Vienna, Austria）.
1986 march Performed and choreographied solo “Corpus Nomade”（Hommage to Tatsumi Hijikata, Studio200, Ikebukuro, Japan）.
Performed in Glenn Branca Orchestra Concert（Likura Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
Performed and choreographied Company “Les Larmes d'Eros”（‘Rovelt Festival’, Italy）
6月 Founded ‘Ko Murobushi Company’ and performed “Pantha Rhei” with 50 European dancers for UNESCO'S 40th Anniversary（UNESCO, Paris, France）
1987 - Toured “Les Larmes d'eros” in France.
1988 january Performed and choreographied “Tears of Eros2”.
march Performed and choreographied Company “HOH”（Festival Trans-Media, Chofu Green Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
may “Tears of Eros2”（Serapion Theatre, Vienna, Austria）.。
august Performed and choreographied duo "Ephemereﾓ with Urara Kusanagi（Dance a Aix-en-Provence, France　Festival"Impuls TanzﾕVienna, Austria　caf� de la Danse, Paris, France　Berlin, Dusseldorf, stuttgart, Hamburg）.
1989 - Choreographied “MAYU” solo for Urara Kusanagi（Tanz Projekte Koln, Cologne, Germany）.
Performed and choreographied Company “Le Cycle des Stupeurs”（Lille Festival, France）.
Performed and choreographied “EN” (Mouson Turm, Frankfurt, Germany).
1990 - Directed Station-Event at Strasbourg station（Strasbourg, France）.
Performed and choreographied “Ephemere” (Werkstadt Dusseldorf, Germany).
1991 - Toured “Ephemere” “EN”（Mexico, Italy, France and Germany）
june Choreographied “Quiet Sand in Utopia” for Company No-Made（Fribourg, Switzerland）.
1992 junuary Performed and Choreographied trio “Mamuish” with Urara Kusanagi, Tadashi Endo for the opennig Festival ‘MAMU’（Goettingen, Germany）
june Choreographied Dance-Opera “Children's Crusade” with AWAR Tanz Theater（Gasteig, Munich, Germany）
Toured “Ephemere”（Caracas, Venezuela　and Bogota, Colombia　 and Improvisation‘PIE’with Music of Alain MAHE, Festival Allonne, France）
“EN” （Bremen, Germany）.
august Performed and choreographied solo “Nomadic Blue”（Festival‘Impuls Tanz’Vienna, Austria）
october Performed in the film “Dove Siete? Lo Sono Qui”（Directed Liliana Cavani, Rome, Italy）.
“Out of Ephemere” （Odeon, Vienna, Austria）
1993 february Performed and Choreographied duo “Ai - Amour” with Carlotta Ikeda（Dansens Hus, Stockholm　and toured Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, England and France ）.
Performed “Ai - Amour” with Urara Kusanagi（Theatre de la Bastille, France）（‘DanceUmbrella’, UK）.
1994 jury Choreographied “White Presence” solo for Urara Kusanagi（Tanz Projekte Koln, Cologne）
november Performed and choreographied duo “Errance” with Urara Kusanagi（Odeon, Vienna, Austiria）.
1995 january Performed and choreographied duo “Working Process” with Urara Kusanagi（Goettingen, Germany）.
Performed and choreographied duo “SEBI” with Urara Kusanagi（La Fonderie, Le Mans, France）.
Toured “Working Process”（Festival‘MOSTRA 95’, Brazil　and Ljubljana Cankarjev Dom, Slovenia）.
Performed and choreographied “SEBI”（Festival‘CHOREGRAPHIES’, TNB-Rennes, France）.
1996 - Performed improvisation “In Chance”（Festival ‘MAMU’, Goettingen, Germany）
“Working Process”（Tafel Halle, Nurnberg, Germany）.
1997 may Performed and choreographied solo “In Silence”（Le Quartz, Brest, France）.
Toured “Working Process”（International Theater Festival ‘CARACAS’, Venezuela　and International Festival of Contemporary Dance ‘ZAGREB’, Croatia）.
1998 octber Toured Workshop （Studio T, Xalapa-Veracruz, Mexico）.
“Edge” and “Improvisation” with Vocalization Anna Clementi（Festival ‘Suoni del Corpo’, Rome, Italy）.
4 Improvisation for “HIJIKATA '98”（Setagaya Public Theater‘TRAM’, Tokyo, Japan）.
octber Performance （Terpsichore, Tokyo ‘Hakushu Festival’, Ymanashi ‘GalleryTOM’,Tokyo, Japan）.
1999 january Choreographied “HARU NO SAITEN - Un Sacre de Printemps” for ARIADONE（Theatre de la Bastille, France）.
Collaborated with Japanese Contemporary Musicians Keizo Mizoiri（base）, Dogen Kinomoto（flute） and Masato Kouchi（piano）prec（Asuka Hall, Tokyo, Japan）
Workshop- pro series ‘Internationale Summer Tanzwochen Wien’（Vienna, Austria).
1999-
2000 		- Choreographied for the Mexican Film “VERA”（Directed Francisco Athie, Danced Urara Kusanagi, Studio Churubusco & Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico）.
2000 septmber Performed and choreographied solo “Another Human, Another thing”（Osaka torii Hall, Osaka, Japan）.
november Performed and choreographied solo “Edge”（Kagurazaka die pratze, Tokyo, Japan）
Participated in ‘Festival International Montpellier Danse 2000’（Montpellier, France）.
Guest performed for Bernardo Monte's “Dissection d'un homme arme”（Le Quartz, Brest, France）.
2001 - Performed and choreographied Ko & Edge.Co “Edge01”（Teatro de la Danza, Mexico City, Mexico）.
jury “Edge01-Face” with Valentina Castro, Raul Parrao, Rodrigo Angoitia（Festival ‘ARTE 01’, Teatro de la Danza, Mexico City, Mexico）.
“Edge01”（Akademie Theater, Vienna International Dance Festival ‘Impuls Tanz 2001’, Austria）.
octber “Edge01”with Valentina Castro, Raul Parrao, Rodrigo Angoitia（Teater TRAM,Tokyo, Japan）.
november “Edge-Extra”（JCDN ‘ODORI NI IKUZE!’, Conquarino, Sapporo, Japan）.
december Performed and choreographied “KO & KOTA” with Kota Yamazaki（Kagurazaka die pratze, Tokyo, Japan）.
december Guest performed for Lauren Newton and Koichi Makigami's duo“KUCHINOHA Christmas”（Ochanomizu OCC Building, Tokyo, Japan）.
2002 - Workshop（Studio T, Guanajuato, Xalapa, Mexico）.
Toured solo “Edge 01” （North Mexico International Dance Festivals, Mexico）.
“Edge 02-Bach Sketch” J.S.Bach + Alain Mahe-Live Electronics (Vienna International Dance Featival ‘ImPulsTanz 2002’, Museum Quartier, Vienna, Austria）.
Performed and choreographied “East Wind III-No Boat in Sights”（New Delhi, Chandigare, India）.
august ARIADONE “HARU NO SAITEN - Un Sacre de Printemps”（Shinjuku Park Tower Hall, Japan）.
2003 - Performed “East Wind III-No Boat in Sights”（Setagaya Public Theater, Tokyo, Japan）.
march 3 Improvisations for ‘Farewell Asbestos Hall’ with Akiko Motofuji and YAS-KAZ（Asbestos Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
june Performed and choreographied “GESHI”（Belgais Art Center, belgais, Portuguese）.
2 Improvisation pour bp with Jean Francois Pauvris-gr, Alain Mahe Electronics（Buto Festival in Bertin Poiree, Paris, France）.
jury ARIADONE “HARU NO SAITEN - Un Sacre de Printemps”（In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Odeon, Vienna International Dance Festival ‘Impuls Tanz 2003’, Austria）
Performed “Le Salon”（■,‘danceWEB2003’, UK）
august Performed Ko & Edge Co. “Edge03”（Arsenal Malersaal, Vienna International Dance Festival ‘Impuls Tanz 2003’, Austria）.
Artistic coach for the Workshop Festival “Edge 03 & coaching Project”（Vienna International Dance Festival ‘Impuls Tanz 2003’, Austria）
september Performed Ko & Edge Co. “Edge03”（‘II POLYSENSORIAL Festival’ , Teatro Stella Inda, Morelia & Mexico City, Mexico）.
“Edge01”（The Place theater, London, UK）.
“Edge01”（Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Italy）
“Edge - India”（‘Asia Performing Arts Festival’, NewDelhi, India）.
november Performed in “Memorial Akiko Motofuji - Ceremony of Butoh”（Taro Okamoto Museum, Kawasaki, Japan）.
Collaborated with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie “Beyond Borders”（Arts Council London, UK）.
Workshop（Curitiba Art Center ‘Casa Hoffmann’, Curitiba, Brazil）.
Performed and choreographied “■”（Teatro Julio Jimenez Rueda, Mexico）
december Performed and choreographied Ko & Edge.Co “BIBOU NOAOZORA - Handsome Blue Sky”（Festival ‘JADE2003 memorial of Hijikata’, Shinjuku Park Tower Hall, Tokyo, Japan）.
2004 - Performed “PINE” with the STAFF Juku（Manila, Phillipines）.
Performed “For the sand” with the STAFF Juku（KualaLumpur, Malaysia）.
march Performed and Choreographied “Giselle(s)”（‘Dance01’, Nishiogi WEN studio, Japan）.
Performed and Choreographied solo “SUBETE HA YU-REI - Everything must be a ghost”（Nishiogi WEN studio, Japan）.
“Edge01”（‘MAMU Festival 04’, Goettingen, Germany）.
“Edge01”（Tanz und Theater Werkstatt, Stuttgart, Germany）.
Opening Performance for the Exhibition of Hijikata（KUNSTVEREIN Stuttgart, Germany）.
april Performed and Choreographied Ko & Edge.Co “Experimental Body vol.1 Heels”（Kagurazaka die pratze, Japan）.
Workshops in ‘NYU & Japan Society’and ‘CAVE ’（New York City, US）.
november Performed and Choreographied Ko & Edge.Co “Experimental Body vol.2 SHIGENJI ”（Azabu die pratze, Japan）.
Performed and Choreographied solo “Inter - Mezzo”（JCDN　 ‘ODORI NI IUKUZE!’ Nagakute, Aichi & Naha, Okinawa, Japan）.
Choreographied “Zarathoustra - Variations” for ARIADONE（Bordeaux, France）.
2005 - Performed “Edge” and workshop（Contemporary Dance Workshop ‘Dance Geberate Fukuoka 2004’, Japan）.
Performed “Edge” and workshop（‘Hivernales d'Avignon’, Avignon, France）.
“Zarathoustra - Variations” （‘Festival DanceTendance’, Bordeaux, France）.
“Zarathoustra - Variations” （Orvieto, Italy）.
Artistic Advisor “Elizabeth, Why did you leave so soon ?” for Ted Stoffer’s Production（Bruxelles, Belgium）.
Performed “Edge, Chasm & Pass” with Pierre Darde（‘Performing Arts Carnival’Yokohama Akarenga Soko, Japan）.
“BIBOU NO AOZORA - Handsome Blue Sky”（‘Korea-Japan Friendship in Dance 2005’, Seoul, Korea）.　
“BIBOU NO AOZORA - Handsome Blue Sky”（Fukuoka, Japan　Vancouver, Chicago, NYC, Houston etc, Canada & USA）.　
november Performed solo improvisations “Quick Silver”（‘Kazuo Ohno Festival’, Yokohama BankArt-studio NYK3F, Japan）.
Workshop at CCN Tours-Bernardo Montet（Tours, France）.
Performed Ko&Edge Co. “DEAD 1” + solo“DEAD 2” （‘Azumabashi Dance Crossing’, Asahi Art Squere, Tokyo, Japan）.
2006 - Performed “Dog on the Dock”（‘Yokohama Dance Kaiwai special’, Yokohama City Dock, Japan）.
Performed solo “DEAD 3”（‘Azumabashi Dance Crossing’, Asahi Art Squere, Tokyo, Japan）.
april The 37th(2005) AWARD of Dance Critic Society of Japan
REHEARSALS “Murmullos del Paramo” （Music Theater of Julio Estrada, Musik der Jahr Hundert, Theater Haus-Stuttgart, Germany）.
PREMIERE “Murmullos del Paramo” （Teatro Espanol in Madrid, Spain）.
june Performed and choreographied solo “Quick Silver”（Azabu die pratze, Japan）.
Performed and choreographied solo “Quick Silver”（‘Venezia Biennale Dance Festival’, Venezia, Italy）and Miro Ito's photowork became an official image of the Festival. http://www.miroito.com/biennale.html　
september Invited CNDC Workshop & Coaching （Ecole Superieure de danse Contemporaine, Angers, France）.
octber Performed and Choreographied solo“IQuick Silver”（JCDN-‘ODORI NI IUKUZE!’vol.7, Maebashi・old-Asaya departmentstore, Japan）.
“Murmullos del Paramo” （‘VIII Festival International Musica y Escena’, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico）
“Murmullos del Paramo” （Venezia Biennale-50th Contemporary Music Festival, Venice, Italy）.
Performed “quick silver variation”（Maebashi & Niigata Performing Art Center, Japan）, “DEAD 1+”（Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Japan） in ‘ODORI NI IKUZE!’.
2007 january Performed and choreographied Ko & Edeg Co. “Experimental Body vol.4 D-brane”（Azabu die pratze, Tokyo, Japan）.
february Performed “quick silver ”（‘Festival Della Nuova Danza’ at ROMA-AUDITORIUM, Equilibrio, Italy）.
march Performed “DEAD 1+”（ASAHI Aat Squere Festival ‘ODORINIYUKUZE’, Tokyo, Japan）.
may Performed “quick silver ”（UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico）.
september Performed and Choreographied duo“Experimental Body vol.5 MIMI”with Ikuyo Kuroda（Akasaka RED Theater, Tokyo, Japan）.
Performed as a vampire of the film “Kyuketsu”（Directed by Naoki Yoshimoto）. http://kyuketu.is-mine.net/
2008 april Performed and choreographied solo “Because of Transitory…”（Coraborated Japanese Painter Kumi Machida, ‘Bigakkou Gigmenta’, Tokyo, Japan）.
may Performed and choreographied solo “Quick Silver”（‘Performance of welcome of new student of Keio University ’, Keio University Hiyoshi campus Raiousha event terrace, Tokyo, Japan）.