A one month residency in Tokyo Japan, working Tetsuro Fukuhara Butoh Dancer, Space Dance Choreographer, artist, writer and Director of Tokyo Space Dance Museum and School.

On 1972-1975, He studied “Improvisation Butoh” from Akira Kasai. He belongs to the second generation of Butoh. On 1975, He started his own works in Tokyo. On 1983, He joined “Story of Seven Herbs” directed by Tatsumi Hijikata, then he founded Tokyo Space Dance. On 1990-1991, He made his debut “Tree of Tarkovsky” in Paris, Berlin, Montreal, Toronto, and New York supported by Japan Foundation and Canada Council.

Tetsuro Fukuhara started his activity as a Japanese Butoh Choreographer and he created “SPACE DANCE” with the concept of “Dance & Design” through the experience of doubting the social position of art. In 2001, at the United Nations in New York he held “SPACE DANCE Performance” and “Kids SPACE DANCE“, and in 2004-2006, at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) in Tokyo he held a joint research as a representative researcher about “GRAVITY” and “BODY” together with the architects, designers, media art curator, cognitive psychologists, robot developers, brain scientists, astro-biologists. After that, his book “VISION of BODY” was published and he held a memorial lecture “APAROS – AI Robot as My Alter Ego” at Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw.

Based on his activities as a SPACE DANCE Artist, it is important to explore and express from several sides of “BODY“, “SCIENCE“, “DESIGN“, “ARCHITECTURE“, “STORY“, and “AI“, so his activities are multi-dimensional.

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Images/photographs - Tetsuro Fukuhara

Dancer - Angharad Matthews