YUKO OTA

Dancer living between Japan and Europe.
She is born in 1977 in Fukuoka (Japan).
In 1999, she encounters butoh in a workshop of Atsushi Takenouchi
in Kyoto to where she had moved for her studies on
French language. She was deeply touched by butoh and discovered
the world of dance. Since, she followed lessons and
workshops of several masters of butoh : Yoshito Ohno, Toru
Iwashita, Tenko Ima etc.
She takes a part, essentially as dancer and assistant, of the
company Globe JINEN directed by A. Takenouchi.
In parallel, from 2003 to 2006 she participates to a French
company : Les Transe-Mutants (transdisciplinary art/dance ;
afro-Cuban, kathak, martial arts, modern, classic...) which she
met in Paris and in which she deepened physical techniques.
Today, she executes her own researches on butoh around the
question about the way to live dance of lives and bodies at the
crossroad of connection with others, in organizing workshops
of butoh in the same way as solo performance.

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Dear Yuko,

At the time when she started the butoh; the secret in the body
And when it was growing up...
She was like a Japanese doll of the forgotten time with dust.
Fleeting, infant, beautiful and fragile,
She was mysterious girl... I could not read where her blood run.

Little by little, a bird makes his nest.

And, one day, I clearly heard her first cries of birth.
Out of light, the innocent body screamed in crying.
In a moment, veins expanded in pulsation.
She is born, baby pregnant of the butoh.

Butoh baby!!
Continue to seed of love of life and death for people.

Atsushi Takenouchi