The Chicken Project – Instruction Video
Cleaning Dance
A Spring Dance
Dance with Sheep
Clemente Padin
Action with Leaves and Light
TO-EN
KAI-EN
Light/Dark
Human Breath
Open call for photos of windows and views
Peter Rosvik
The Window Art Exhibition
The Visiting Project Hållnäs peninsula 2021
High Voltage
A homeless BODY
Va-Bene: I am here
30 year celebration
A rootless BODY
Body and the World – the film
SU-EN Body Materials
Gottsunda Human Miracles
Past/Present/Any-Time
THE WINDOW PROJECT
Spring 2020, the Corona virus blew across the world, making us change our lives. Live performances were on pause. However creativity did not stop. Until we could meet each other live again – we wanted to share some visual and artistic material with others in the frame of The Window Project. Some material was already a few years old, some was new and some were work-in-progress, ideas that we never had time to investigate and some were just for fun.
To look outside. Watching the world through a window. To look to the inside, into the house. Through the window. To look into another person. Through their eyes – like windows.
Movement never stops. Life never ends. Dirt shines. Space cracks. Time laughs.
The Window Project 1 – 2020
The Chicken Project – Instruction Video
Chicken instructor: SU-EN
Project director and chicken keeper: Hans T
Chicken assistants: Varunée Lundström, Eva Wiggström
Camera: Rickard Sporrong
Music: Adam Fietz
Post production: Rrong Production
Cover: Pat Slap
Photo: Hans T
Supported by Konstnärsnämnden/Swedish Arts Grants Committee
© SU-EN Butoh Company and Rrong Production 2004
The Window Project 2 – 2020
Cleaning Dance
a dance response to ccap and Cristina Caprioli’s gifts
SU-EN Butoh Company received two letters from Sweden based dance company ccap and choreographer Cristina Caprioli in spring 2020.
Inside one was a lemon soap
Inside one was a Wettex towel
And there were some texts
This is my response
SU-EN
The Window Project 3 – 2020
A Spring Dance
Filmed and danced around SU-EN Butoh Company Center, Haglund Skola area, Almunge, Sweden
May 3, 2020
With: Madeleine Holmlund and Heiko Klandt
Concept, camera and edit: SU-EN
Music: Birds, wind, tractors and cars
The video is 5:30 min long
The Window Project 4 – 2020
Dance with Sheep
Filmed and danced at Hagby Gård, Almunge, Sweden
May 7, 2020
Dance, choreographic relation with sheep and edit: SU-EN
Music: Sheep, lambs, birds, wind, hawk, motor saw
Behind the camera: Silvio Trevizan
Thanks to Hagby Gård
The video is 7 min
The Window Project 5 – 2020
As a response to our Window Project our dear friend Clemente Padin in Uruguay sent this video.
For sure many of us miss the intimate and physical sensation of hugging a friend, a family member or a stranger.
The video is 4:30 minutes long.
With: Clemente Padin, Uruguay
Title of performance: Option
Date: April 13, 2016
Location: ”Bread and Poetry”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Window Project 6 – 2020
The autumn has been magical here at Haglund Skola. The leaves are so yellow and slowly fall down in a beautiful dance. We made two dance – and action videos this October and present them here.
Action with Leaves and Light, 5:45 min
View on Vimeo
Dance with Leaves, 8:14 min
View on Vimeo
The Window Project 7 – 2020
SU-EN Butoh Company have been training dancers in the Ashikawa-SU-EN lineage since 1995.
The training takes 5 years to master. Until now two dancers have completed the process. Please take a moment to get acquainted with their work!
The videos are 7 min and 8 min long.
TO-EN, ”BLACKNESS – sequence II”. Excerpt from a performance.
View on Vimeo
KAI-EN, Excerpts from various performances.
View on Vimeo
Celebrating 10 years of activities this year!
TO-EN Butoh Company founded 2009 based in Gdansk, Poland.
toenbutoh.com
KAI-EN Butoh Company founded 2010 based in Stockholm, Sweden.
kai-enbutoh.se
The Window Project 8 – 2020
As we are moving towards the darkest day of the year here in northern hemisphere, we wish to share a project that we did in 2018.
Light/dark
In collaboration with artist Ingrid Hu (UK/Taiwan)
In Praise of Darkness
Darkness drinks all the colours
And shapes are visible because they are more dark than the surrounding
Stillness, all is quiet
Darkness clams everything down
Choreography: SU-EN
Light installation: Ingrid Hu
Dance: Madeleine Holmlund and Heiko Klandt
Music: Mikael Stavöstrand (free mix of Illuminence CD)
Production: Mon no Kai/SU-EN Butoh Company
Performed at K.R.O.P.P, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, December 8, 2018
The video edit is 11 minutes long.
View on Vimeo
The Window Project 1 – 2021
Human Breath
This film came to be through the encounter, exchange and friendship with people at an asylum center in the Uppsala area, spring and summer 2020.
Choreographic outline and concept: SU-EN
Dance: SU-EN and Capi Bass
Presence: Capi Bass, Gambia, Kelly Osas Enogieru, Nigeria,
Tesheme Tekietsion, Eritrea
Behind the camera: SU-EN and Kelly Osas Enogieru
Voice and field recordings: SU-EN
Bells by Tatsuya Nakatani, courtesy of Aki Onda
Edit: SU-EN
The video is 13 minutes long.
View on Vimeo
© SU-EN Butoh Company/Mon no Kai 2021
The Window Project 2 – 2021
Open call for photos of windows and views for the upcoming
Window Art Project
The Window Project 3 – 2021
The Window Project proudly presents one of Peter Rosvik’s masterpieces….
Performance: Peter Rosvik
FOAD: On the edge of the purgatory while the world slowly dies, 2018
Video: Stein Henningsen
Edit of the performance is 14:30 minutes.
The Window Project 4 – 2021
The Window Art Exhibition
A photo exhibition of windows and views from all over the world. SU-EN Butoh Company asked friends, artists and fellow humans to contribute. Even if we cannot travel these days due to the virus situation, we can still get a taste of the world and someone else’s reality, through a person’s view through their window. The world is a great and exciting place, caught in a moment of our daily life!
Date: Released April 2021
Photos: Adina, Agness, Amit, Andrew, Anne, Anonymous, Azatjan Family, Benedikte, Beth, Boris, Clemente, Emmanuel, Eva, Gina, Gottsunda Dans & Teater, Hans, Heiko, Håvve, Jessica, Joan, Joji,
Justin, Kelly, Kirsten, Lisa, Lise-Lotte, Marie, Marlen, Milos, Monique,
Nikolina, Núria,Ove, Peppe, SkArt team, Rabia, Richard & Rieko, Rosula, Sakiko, Shiroque and Maryam, Silvestra, Sinéad, Tim,
Xjoanne, Yande, Åsa, SU-EN
Idea: SU-EN
Layout on website: Jeanette Nordberg
The Window Project 5 – 2021
The Visiting Project Hållnäs peninsula 2021
With SU-EN and Amit Sen
June 10-11, 2021
10 visits and performances around Hållnäs Peninsula, Northern Uppland
June 12, 2021
public showing and talk, Edvalla
The two artists visit people’s homes and workspaces and make a short improvisation inspired by each place. Each improvisation is followed by a talk with the spectators.
Production: Hållnäs Konstkoloni, Hållnäs Hembygdsförening, SU-EN Butoh Company, Ars & Modus
Video edit: Amit Sen
The video edit is 28 minutes.
© SU-EN och Amit Sen 2021
The Window Project 6 – 2021
High Voltage
5 min video, September 2021
A crash dance and boxing session with SU-EN and Matthias Röhrich, Colombi park, power supply station, Freiburg, Germany
Waldkirch
Photo and text, September 2021
Memories from my mother’s childhood town, Schwarzwald, Germany
A very personal visit and photo project
Both projects photo and video: KeiBi
The Window Project 1 – 2022
A homeless BODY
A visual, choreographic and human project.
Spring and summer 2021
Public event August 21
Welcome to Mikaelsparken in Uppsala, Sweden!
In the park, Uppsala Stadsmission has a center for homeless, and socially vulnerable people. During spring and summer 2021 SU-EN Butoh Company and friends spent time here, helping with the garden, engaging in conversations, making spontaneous performances and photo shoot.
The conversations and actions with the people of the park led to a public event which lasted for three hours.
View Slide show, 100 photos
View on Vimeo 10 min video edit (English text)
View on Vimeo 36 min video edit (Swedish text)
The Window Project 2 – 2022
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi
The amazing and courageous artist and artivist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi[crazinisT artisT] (pronouns: sHit, if not she) and thepIAR center, Ghana.
Due to a proposed bill against LGTB+ in Ghana, Va-Bene and her center is in danger.
Video of Va-Bene performing as a protest on Accra-Kumasi Highway
Read more about the work of Va-Bene and the pIAR studio crazinistartist.com
Please consider to donate, more info here
The Window Project 3 – 2022
SU-EN Butoh Company 30 year celebration, Uppsala castle
In 1992 the SU-EN Butoh Company was founded in Tokyo.
The journey after that has been tough, exciting and splendid! On Oct 22, 2022 SU-EN Butoh Company celebrated 30 years of dancing bodies on stage!
This took place in the historical spaces of Uppsala castle, halls and The National Hall. The celebration included several installations,
pre-screening of the film Body and the World, vegetarian buffé and contributions from several guest artists.
The Window Project 1 – 2023
The documentation of: A rootless BODY
A visual, choreographic and human project.
Spring and summer 2022
Public event August 13, 12:00-15:00
View slide show with pictures
View video 41 min ©Katten&Björnen
The Window Project 1 – 2024
The documentation of: Body and the World – the Film
SU-EN Butoh Company – 30 years of dancing bodies
Feature film, duration 86 min
Created by SU-EN and Agustín Ortiz Herrera’
Release online 2024
The film Body and the World presents the aesthetics and work method of SU-EN Butoh Company and depicts the activities over 30 years with Butoh, choreography and art projects.
Read more about the film and watch both full length and trailer
The Window Project 2 – 2024
SU-EN Body Materials presentation
17 hours of filmed demonstation of 65 Body Materials
The Body Materials can only be fully understood in training in the Studio for several years with a teacher that has deep knowledge. This presentation is not intended to be an instruction video for dance students, but rather as a contribution to research into Hijikata’s work. The presentation is compiled to show the long, deep process of the work and how a dancing body and choreography is created through the Body Materials. It is the ambition of SU-EN Butoh Company that the film of SU-EN Butoh Method and the Body Materials can be shared with the world, so they are not misunderstood or forgotten. They are an important key to how Ashikawa’s body, choreography and dance developed from Hijikata’s Butoh-fu during the 19080s and 1990s.
The Window Project 3 – 2024
Gottsunda Human Miracles
This multidisciplinary and ever changing art project started in March 2023. It is based on the UN declaration of Human Rights and aims at direct human interaction through contemporary performing art. During 2023-2025 (or 2026) SU-EN Butoh Company and guests will make 30 performance happenings (same number as the Human Rights articles) in the Gottsunda shopping center. At the end plan we also to make a 31st extended performance project as a wrapping up event.
The Window Project 1 – 2025
Past/Present/Any-Time
10 artists chose and bonded with some of the old objects from the collection at the heritage center. Working within a contemporary art frame, the old objects were given a new life as contemporary art and sound objects.