SU-EN Butoh Company 1988-2007
 activities, choreographies, projects led by SU-EN

 

2008

New Life - Cradle, Holland, with Junichi Kakizaki
Friktioner International Performance Festival, organized by Uppsala Art Museum and in collaboration with Mon no Kai. Performances, seminars and workshops in Uppsala city , Art museum and City theatre. Curated by SU-EN
Headless + workshop, Avante Garde festival, Merida, Mexico
Philosophical Improvisation, MADE festival, Umeå. With per Nilsson and Lise-Lott Norelius
CRACKS, Dansens Hus/Stockholm and Uppsala City Theatre
Lectures, Swedish Ballet Academy and Stockholm University
Orange Dreams performance and Friktioner presentation at Krock-klubben/Ettan, Uppsala City Theatre

2007

 
Apple Dreams with Lise-Lott Norelius, SEKT, Kilen, Stockholm
Romeo & Juliet - The Chicken Project, Shakespeare festival, Regina Theatre, Uppsala
Isis and Grand Piece Royal, Uppsala cathedral, chorus, baroque ensemble, soloists
New Life, duo performance Junichi Kakizaki and SU-EN, Nagano and Tokyo, film presentation and photo exhibition
Participation in Opening Events, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress Consert Hall
Reality Lab, med Line Tjornhoj, Kalvfestivalen
Summer camp + Öppet Hus, Haglund Skola
New Life, commissioned Gala Performance to celebrate Carl von Linné. 80 dancers, musicians, children, seniors and animals in one big joyful celebration of life, outdoor stage, Uppsala city
Scrap Life, film shown at Swedish National TV
Head-less, Mandala festival, Wroclaw, Poland
Friction/Reflections, Open talk on the Friction festival, Uppsala Art museum
Modus Mobile project, knocking on doors and doing improvisations in peoples homes. With Amit Sen

2006

Improvisations, project GROTTO, Femivalen feminist festival, Uppsala. With Joel Grip, double bass
Maximalistic, Ljusfest, Fylkingen, Stockholm. With Joel Grip, double bass
Autumn camp, Haglund Skola
Scrap Life, film premiered at Uppsala shortfilm festival
In red, installation piece for Jämo equality conferens, Uppsala university
Butoh Breeze festival: Electrified, new piece, guest performance Kiba with Richard Hart, Guest lecture by Gilles Kennedy, Headless with Lee Berwick, Regina theatre, Uppsala
Reality Lab starts, composer Line Tjornhoj + 3 artists, Gothenburg
SU-EN butoh workshop, Cave, Brooklyn, new York
Artist talk on Visiting, with Nuria Divi at Conflux and Cave
In Silence, improvisation with Nuria Divi, Cave, Brooklyn, New York
Visiting, art performance project, with Nuria Divi, Williamsburg neighbourhood, Brooklyn, New York
Nordic voice consert, Maribor cathedral
Mor, crash performance with Line Tjornhoj, Maribor, Denmark
Summer camp + Open house, Haglund Skola
Friktioner performance festival: Children of Guts Freaking in-Friction out, projekt GROTTO Wrestling event 2, with Sören Runolf, SU-EN curating the festival in collaboration with Uppsala artmuseum
Mor, crash performance with Line Tjornhoj, Kant, Copenhagen
Artist talk, Twin city festival, Kiev
Headless, Twin city festival, Kiev, Ukraine
Friktionans, installation performance, Uppsala Art museum 
Headless/Fruitful, workshops and photo project Quito Body, Casa de la Danza Festival, Ecuador
Body and Word, photo project with Gunnel Hillås 
Lecture and workshop, Tyst Teater, Dreamtime project
Modus Mobile, project with Amit Sen at Ars Modus, Hammenhög
2005
 
Claire du Silence, Ljusfest, Fylkingen, with Sören Runolf
Midvinterljus,  Uppsala
The Wrestling Event, at SEKT, with musician Sören Runolf
SLICE and workshops, tour to St Petersburg and Yerevan, Armenia
Scrap Event, opening for Culture Night, Uppsala
Summer camp + Open house, Haglund Skola
Fish and Glory, Reykjavik, Iceland
Break the Ice symposium, produced by Nordscen, Iceland
FRAGRANT, Stockholm, Uppsala, Malmo, Gothenburg
HEADLESS, OKNO festival, Poland 
HEADLESS, Linkoping, Umea, Lulea, Haparanda
Projekt Kyckling- Instruction event, Linkoping, Umea, Wilhelmina
Lecture, Lulea
Open workshop, Haparanda
2004
 
Water Fragrances, Vordingborg, Denmark 
Life, do you hear me?! Vordingborg, Denmark
SLICE - the performance, Essen
Lecture and workshop, University of Lund
Lecture and artist talk by SU-EN,  Uppsala Artmuseum
Butoh Can-Can, Scandiascenen, Uppsala
Autumn Camp, Haglund Skola
You were wonderful with the fish! (Children of Guts) and SLICE the film, SEKT, Stockholm
SLICE the film, Reykjavik film festival
SLICE and HEADLESS, Dansescenen, Copenhagen
The Scrap Project, Uppsala Scrapyard
Summer Camp, Haglund Skola
The Chicken Instruction Video release Event, the Dance Biennale, Malmö 
Butoh Can-Can, opening for the Dance Biennale, Malmö
The Chicken Project, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Workshop Romeo & Juliet - The Chicken Project at SOSA/Cantabile 2, Denmark
Workshop at Teaterstudion, Stockholm 
Film showing SLICE, Universal Body/lecture at E.L.D, Stockholm
2003
 
SLICE at Open Format festival, Minsk and workshops
Release of book BUTOH - body and the world
Life, do you hear me!? Improvised solo at Fylkingen Jibboli festival
SLICE - the film, Uppsala Short Film festival
You were wonderful with the fish! and Body and Mud, Buenos Aires performance event 
You were wonderful with the fish! and Body and Knife, Montevideo performance festival and workshop
SLICE  New York Butoh festival and workshop 
SLICE  Kilen, Stockholm
SLICE  Odense International Performance festival, Dansstationen Malmö 
The Body Project, Anatomical theatre, Uppsala
GNOME re-union meeting, held at Haglund Skola
Butoh Breeze 2003, Tribute to Yoko Ashikawa, festival at Fylkingen, Stockholm, including Boneless, performance project and solos by Richard Hart, Rosula Blanc and SU-EN
SLICE Pusterviksteatern, Göteborg, with Lee Berwick
Boneless, Cantabile Theatre school, Denmark 
Workshop, Cantabile Theatre school, Denmark
Body and Mud, Sub Club, Copenhagen
The Chicken Project, Dansstationen, Malmö
2002
 
FISH and DEATH, Fylkingen´s Ljusfest, Stockholm, with Mattias Axén
M.O.O.P re-mix, workshop performance project, Haparanda
Open workshops, Haglund Skola
HEADLESS,  Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm
HEADLESS and workshops, San Francisco Butoh festival. With Lee Berwick/DIGI DUB
Summer Camp Event. With Eva Ceginskas Björkman and Sons of God.
Scrap - the Truck, Arvika festival. With Lee Berwick/DIGI DUB
Pulpa Paradox, directed by Gregor Weber. PUF festival, Croatia
MOOP - matter out of place, performance project BUTOH BREEZE, Fylkingen, Stockholm 
HEADLESS - love on the other side, Malmö and Göteborg 
Uppsala Cathedral, collaboration with Dodeca chorus
Workshop project, Cantabile 2 school, Denmark
Winter camp, Haglund Skola
2001
 
Corroscope, butoh unit GROTTO at Singlar, Stockholm. With Mattias Axén.
Re-furnishing by the Sons of God,  re-mix by Hans T Sternudd, Pär Thörn and SU-EN, Fylkingen’s Ljusfest
SU-EN & The Sons of God,  improvisations at Hägersten
ATOMIC EVENT 2001, Thé Svedberg laboratory, Uppsala
Autumn Camp, Haglund Skola
FISH and DESIRE, London
HEADLESS - love on the other side, London and Belfast
FISH and LOVE, Amorph international performance festival, Helsinki
Daughters of God drive Chairs, Navinki international performance festival, Minsk
SU-EN butoh camp, Belarus
Art Caravan, mobil surprise event around Uppsala County
Summer camp Event, Haglund Skola
HEADLESS - love on the other side, PUF festival, Croatia. With SU-EN and Lee Berwick
The Scrap Project, opening of PUF festival, Pula, Croatia, workshop and collaboration project at Jadran metal
RECYCLE EVENT, at the Paper recycle center in Uppsala
Butoh Breeze 2001, festival for butoh and performance art, Stockholm
YATRA, performance project at Butoh Breeze, Stockholm. Music by Lee Berwick
HEADLESS - cannibalism of society, and workshop, Basel, Switzerland
ATOMIC, Swedish Dance Biennal, Umeå 
Workshop project, Haparanda and Luleå
SLICE, body and computor event, Anatomical Theatre, Uppsala
SIB - , at Sigtuna stiftelsen. With Frank van de Ven
Workshop project, Cantabile2 school, Denmark
SU-EN winter camp, Haglund Skola
2000
 
Workshop, Cantabile2 school, Denmark 
ATOMIC event, The Svedberg laboratory, Uppsala
HEADLESS, Galapagos, New York
ATOMIC and workshops, Seattle Butoh festival
ATOMIC and workshops, Vancouver Dance festival
HEADLESS, 7ax11d Interntional Performance festival, Toronto
ATOMIC, Blå Lådan, Stockholm
HEADLESS, Navinki performance festival, Minsk, Belarus
GROTTO participating in Rockopera Gods & Monsters, Uppsala
Observation group, Göteborg Dance and Theatre festival
SU-EN summer camp, final event, Haglund Skola
Butoh seminar, KIT, Copenhagen
Scrap - the Truck. PUF festival , Croatia. With Lee Berwick.
24-hour project with Stuart Lynch, Kanonhallen, Denmark
MINSK connection, symposium. Stockholm
DOA! The sound of an angry frog. Butoh Breeze 3, Fylkingen, Stockholm.
Garbage - celebration of International Dance Day, Uppsala.
BLISS, New York. With visual artist Ztsu 
Workshop projekt, New York
ATOMIC at Dansstationen, Malmö
Veroid at Fylkingen
Midvinterljus, opening of festival, Helsingborg
Alien happening, Uppsala
Siblings at Aine Artmuseum, Finland and Fylkingen, Stockholm. 
With Frank van de Ven  and VLK M
Workshops, Haglund Skola & Haparanda
Participating in 12 Tiger/Anne Külper, Konstakademin, Stockholm
1999

Scrap Bodies at MAMU butoh festival, Germany      
Workshops and SKIN happenings in Södertälje, Luleå and Haparanda
Research project ’The Immortal’ with Frank van de Ven, Buenos Aires
Celebrating International Dance Day with Grävskope-happening in 4 cities, Uppsala County  
Container truck-happening  at Uppsala Castle. With Skrotcentralen i Uppsala
Scrap Bodies at Plesni Teater, Slovenia and PUF festival, Croatia.  SU-EN  workshop
SKIN-happening with Amit Sen, Body and Sound, Arholma Island
Photo project Birdfarm with Maja Sandberg
SU-EN summer camp, final event, Haglund Skola
Street happening Nature in the City, SU-EN butoh workshop and Eva C-Björkman
Photo exhibition by Maja Sandberg, SU-EN performance project, Signum K-zon, Uppsala
Scrap - the Truck, with Skrotcentralen i Uppsala AB. Yard behind Balderskolan, Uppsala
Atomic at Skandiascenen, Uppsala. Music by Graham Lewis. Light by Svante Wärnsberg
Universal Body, film project with Gunilla Leander. Premiere at Uppsala Filmfestival.
Siblings,  duo with Frank van de Ven. Spatial engineering by VLK, Amsterdam
1998

projekt GROTTO with Amit Sen. Ingvar Staffans, artwork. Upplands Väsby Artmuseum
ICE-MIX  in Haparanda and Piteå and workshops
Skin happenings, events at Propaganda, Swedish Match, Edsvik konst & kultur
Scrap Bodies in Uppsala, Malmö, Helsingborg, Lund, M/S Stubnitz, Tokyo, San Francisco, Seattle, New York
EVENTA 4 International Art Exhibition, artistic coordinator and performer, Ekeby Qvarn
Vägvisare - poetry performance with J-B Lundén and Amit Sen, Vita Huset, Uppsala
Butoh advisor for Madonna video ’Nothing really  matters’
1997 
              
Tenjuku Nezumi with poet Satoru Kawamura, Tokyo.
BEAK!, Dansstationen, Malmö, SCENEN, Stockholm.
projekt GROTTO/rave with Digi Dub and The Phantasist, Västerås, Örebro, Stockholm. Sigtuna, Ratatosk seminar 
Konstblot 1/EVENTA 4  symposium, Gamla Uppsala Högar
Workshop summer camp, Haglund Skola
projekt GROTTO and/h.e.r.l with ”Quageroh” Imazawa, Arvika festival, Lollipop festival
..shadows in bloom... Göteborg, Prague International Theatre Festival
Collaboration project with Frank van de Ven/Gregor Weber. Stockholm, Haglund Skola
1996 
                 
project GROTTO, Ekeby Qvarn, Kulturhuset, Arvika Festival, Stockholm Water Festival (happenings), Kulturnatten/Uppsala
Dans mellan-Rum 3, Uppsala Artmuseum
The Scaly Ones, Uppsala and Stockholm
Scaly Ones-the happening, Dansstationen, Malmö
Sagan om Fatumeh, with John-Bertil Lundén, Uppsala
Trans...it!, Butoh dance project, Germany and Russia
...shadows in bloom..., Uppsala, Malmö
Charila, SCENEN/Stockholm, Labyrinth/Copenhagen
Siblings, Prague International Theatre festival, SU-EN with Frank van de Ven. Milos Sejn, artwork
1995

Charila, Uppsala Dance festival
project GROTTO at Eventa International Art Exhibition and Århus festival, Denmark
Ex...it! European Butoh Symposium; workshop and performance
Dans mellan-Rum 2, Uppsala Artmuseum
Luna I, with Catherine Hennix, Stockholm
Charila, Århus, Denmark and Malmö. Workshop
Konfrontation performance project, M/S Stubnitz, Germany
1994 
Starts the SU-EN Butoh Company in Sweden and starts independent activities
1994
1993-

Baby Fantasy Box, Tokyo and Iwate prefecture
Mathém with C. Hennix (music and installation), Stockholm
Ningyo, Malmö festival, happening on a boat
Umu, Göteborg, Stockholm, Norrköping, Lund
project GROTTO starting, first performance in Stockholm
Umu, Uppsala, Stockholm
1992
Performed Kaze no Cho, Tiny Alice,  designed and choreographed by Tomoe Shizune and produced by Tomoe Shizune and Hakutobo, with generous support of all the dancers. Recieving the name SU-EN
1994
1988-
Regular performances with GNOME in Japan