Takao Kawaguchi Selection: Un Certain Regard
Pechika Satoh—The Butterfly Dream
The Butterfly Dream(40min)
BUTOH Sunakku—Aftershow (45min)
Pechika Satoh, an artist admired by many for her introspective performances, performs her latest solo. After going down the stairs of the Former Hakubutsukan Dobutsuen Station carrying a fish tank, she plays with water in the underground space, and eventually transforms from a larva into a butterfly wearing a giant sunflower, and heads up to the surface. A quiet, thrilling video performance that transforms the relationship between ground and underground, life and death, and inside and outside.
About Pechika Satoh
Pechika Satoh’s background is in modern dance, but her works involve many different performative elements. According to TRU artistic director Takao Kawaguchi, the way Satoh embraces vulnerability and throws herself out there in her work is reminiscent of something from the early days of Butoh.
Satoh has collaborated with numerous companies across many disciplines, whilst also continuing her solo projects. She appeared in TOUCH OF THE OTHER by Takao Kawaguchi and Jonathan M. Hall in 2016, and also formed the performance group Sugar Rice Center (SRC) in 2006.
About The Butterfly Dream
This new Pechika Satoh solo performance was commissioned by Takao Kawaguchi.
Carry a fish tank.
Put the fish tank down.
It seems like a simple act in writing, but at the start of this work, Satoh lays on her back, places the tank on her body, and slowly shuffles head-first down stairs to an underground space. The water in the fish tank appears to reflect part of Satoh's body beneath it, undulating as her body moves. Her work often reflects on how the body interacts with the outside world and objects, and this new work is no exception.
Satoh's tense and introspective movements change the world as she moves through it, scraping along the edge of multiple boundaries: above ground, below ground, inside and outside, Eros and Thanatos, madness and elegance, the body and objects.
The sounds of guitar that echo around the underground space are played by Hayato Mochizuki.
Artist
© Tomoko Kosugi
Pechika Satoh
Born in Ehime prefecture, 1965. Started ballet in high school, and became involved in jazz dance and dance shows after moving to Tokyo. Began a solo career in 1995. She has appeared in dances with Un Yamada Co., Dance Company Nomade-s, and the Kaiza Butoh group. In 2006 she formed the group Sugar Rice Center (SRC) with Koichi Iida and Takafumi Nakagawa. She has also collaborated with photographer Akihiko Iimura. She has worked on Dance Dog with Masako Fukaya since 2012, and appeared in Takao Kawaguchi's TOUCH OF THE OTHER in 2016. She studies, and bases her work on yoga.
Host
Takao Kawaguchi
Joined the performance group Dumb Type in 1996. Began a solo career in 2000, exploring the boundaries of performance across theatre, dance, video and art. In 2008 he began a solo performance series called a perfect life, which was presented at the 5th Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions in 2013. In recent years, he has been working on performances that are related to Butoh, including The Sick Dancer (with Tomomi Tanabe, 2012) and About Kazuo Ohno (2013). The latter was nominated for an NYC Bessie Award, and was shown at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris in 2018.
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Credits
Artist
Pechika Satoh
Guitar
Hayato Mochizuki
Cameraman
Ryo Sakemoto
Stage Manager
Takashi Kawachi
Lighting Design
Noriyuki Mori（balance,inc.DESIGN）
Filming
Masabumi Kimura
Sound
Ryotaro Miyasaka
Post Production
Ryo Sakemoto
Filming Coordinator
Dai Matsuoka
Filming Cooperation
NPO LAND FES
Photography
Tatsuhiko Nakagawa, Tzvasa Wada
Organisers
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Planning and Production
NPO Dance Archive Network