Butoh
Performances
One evening 2 mesmerizing dance performances:
Yuko Kobayashi (JP/FR) Beyond Motifs
Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh & Students (int) Das Geschöpf
Date:
18.10.2025, 19:30
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
Butoh
Performances
One evening 2 mesmerizing dance performances:
Yuko Kobayashi (JP/FR) Beyond Motifs
Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh & Students (int) Das Geschöpf
Date:
18.10.2025, 19:30
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
Yuko Kobayashi (JP/FR)
Beyond Motifs
I lost myself in the forest of labyrinths, dazzling, battered, playing with swirling waves.
The whirlwind resides deep within my body. It engraves the memories of microbial life.
"Thread-motifs" emerge from my cracked body and intertwine. Together, they form a knot, a small island, a new world.
My neck stretches, my arms, my legs extend. It doesn’t matter.
I am a motif.
Duration: 40 minutes
Concept, Dance: Yuko Kobayashi
Light: Lucas David
About
YUKO KOBAYASHI cultivates the branches of imagination through the use of her body.
Trained in Butoh dance under Akaji Maro/Cie DAIRAKUDAKAN, she participated in all the troupe's performances from 1996 to 2010 and taught dance at Mujinjuku (2006 - 2009).
Since 2010, she has lived in France, collaborating regularly with dancers, circus performers, visual artists, and set designers through choreographic consultancy, workshops, performances, and exhibitions.
She founded the company UZUNERI, where she explores a creative process inspired by nature.
Beyond Motifs is her first solo creation.
In 2022, she moved to the Monts du Lyonnais region of France with the goal of creating a space dedicated to Butoh dance.
Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh (US)
& Students
Das Geschöpf
Duration: 36 minutes
Concept, Choreograph: Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh
Dance: Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh, Maltę Brammer, Barbara Hanel-Stocker, Jutta Mayer, u.a.
Music: Pierrot
About
After studying with Kazuo Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo in the late 80s and performing with Ashikawa’s group Gnome, JOAN LAAGE settled in Seattle and directed Dappin’ Butoh from 1990-2001. She is a co-founder of DAIPANbutoh Collective, which produces an annual butoh festival.
Joan has performed at many festivals including the first New York butoh festival, at the Hybrid Butoh Vienna Art Festival (2023) and Paris’ En Chair et en Son Acousmatic Festival in Paris (2022 and 2023) and was invited by Vangeline to present a solo in New York City in April 2022.
She has taught workshops and performed in Krefeld, Freiburg, Vienna, Basel, Oslo, Milan, Warsaw, London, and Liverpool and was a featured artist at the Winterwerft Festival in Frankfurt.
A Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University, who wrote on the butoh body and Certified Movement Analyst (NYC), she is featured in Sondra Fraleigh’s books and in Tanya Calamoneri’s Butoh America.
She creates site-specific work for Seattle Japanese gardens annually and tours every winter in Europe.
Since living in Krakow 2004–2006, she has been known as Kogut (rooster).