Performances since October 2004:

01. + 02.10.2004 - Les Halles in Sierre, Schweiz
with
Dancing Between
27.10.2004 - On The Boards in Seattle, USA
with Dancing Between
12.01.2005 - Festival de Teatro del DuocUC
in Vina del Mar, Chile
with
Dancing Between
22.01.2005 - Teatro Sinfonica in Conception, Chile
with
Dancing Between
28.-30.01.2005 - Sala Finis Terrae in Santiago, Chile
with Dancing Between
13.-17.04.2005 - Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin
with
Borderless Split Brain
21.-24.04.2005 - Ballhaus Naunynstr., Berlin
with Borderless Split Brain
25.-27.05.2005 - Theatre of Yugen, San Francisco, USA with Dancing Between
30.05.2005 - Theatre of Yugen, San Francisco, USA
Butohperformance with Shinichi Momo Koga,
Paige Sorvillo, Moe! und
Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum
3.06.2005 Butohperformance at Milkbar,
San Francisco with Merlin Coleman

18.06.2005 - Cave, New York, USA
Butohperformance with Tanya Cala
moneri,
Ximena Garnica, Kenta Naga (Music),
Tatsuya Nakatani (Music)
19.-23.10.2005 - Ballhaus Naunynstr., Berlin
with Dancing Between
06.11.2005 - Organ And Dance
Church St. Martini Bremen

with Minako Seki and Hans-Dieter Renken
who played Bach and own compositions

10.12.2005 - Aktionsbank Berlin
Minako Seki And Guests
Butohdanceperformance
with Paige Sorvillo (USA), Carla Lobos (Chile), Juan Jose Olavarrieta (Chile), Hilde Broeckhove
(Brüssel), Rosa Podromou (Greece), Adam and Justin Palermo (San Francisco), Anushiye Yarnell (England), Ann Kristin Löckmann Germany), Dennis Palazzolo (New York), Maka Mamporia (Georgia), Wolgang Heinle (San Francisco), Marrisol Torres (Mexico) Anna Curtis (New York),
DJ Christin Bolte (Berlin)
The entrance-fee was given to the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan
11.03.2006 - New Nationalgallery Berlin
Memories To Undressed Persons
-Butoh Strip-
at Salon Noir, the eventprogram of the exhibition: Melancholy. Genius And Madness In Ihe Art
with Minako Seki, Rosa Prodromou, Anita Barros,
Marjorie Chau, Anushiye Yarnell,
Costume: Mido Kawamura, Music: Zam Johnson, Sound: DJ Christin Bolte,
Projection Design: Keiko Ikeuchi,
Light and Production: Nils Willers
15.03.-19.03.06 Dancing Between
at Ballroom Naunyn, Berlin Kreuzberg

06.05.2006 Borderless Split Brain
Prinz Regent Theater Bochum

26.05.2006 Borderless Split Brain
Dancespaces, Festival Hagen
07.09.2006, Dancing Between
Wacker Days Of Theatre Wackerfactory Darmstadt

14.10.2006 Sasayaki, Performance
Church Worpswede

(near Bremen, North Germany)
with Minako Seki, Gudrun Soujon (Dance),
Wilhelm Schulz (Cello), Franko Frankenberg (Electronic And Percussion)
18.10.06 Vernissage
Moving In
The Mobile Gallery from Workshop Of The Cultures

from Augusto Pacheco Sanchez
Invisible Cities - Ciudades Invisibles
Danceperformance: Minako Seki
25.10.2006 Schicht (Short Version)
Theater and Opera Madlenianum, Belgrade
for Opening Of National Graphic Magazine in Serbia
25.11.2006 In Memoriam Koki Seki
HOMMAGE TO MY BROTHER
(1956-23.11.2006)
Minako Seki and Guests
with Imre Thormann
Willem Schulz - Cello
Bo-Sung Kim - Changgo (Korean Drum)

at Studio Labor G.ras, Berlin Kreuzberg
19.01.2007 Performance de la Improvisation in Valparaiso, Chile
with Elias Cohen (Pysical Acting), Nils Willers (Sound)
10.+11.02.2007 Dancing Between
Theatro EL Excentrico de la 18*

Buenos Aires

13.+14.04.07 Dancing Between
Klub Zak, Gdansk, Poland

20.04.2007 Dancing Between
Mandala Festival Wroclaw, Poland

27.+28.04.07 Dancing Between
Fletch Bizzel, Dortmund

05.05.07 Dancing Between
La Danza Di Confine, 4. Festival di Assoli Butoh
in Castello di Lerici (La Specia), Italy

21.+22.07.2007

Modulations
Butohddance-Lecture with Sarane Lecompte, Teresa Carlos, Mikel Uflik, Minako Sei
Tanzfabrik Berlin
06.10.2007
House Of Science, Sandstr. 4/5, Bremen, Germany
Inside The Machine
Concert, Reading And Butohdance
Text by Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller,
Music by Schostakowitsch

25.10.2007
Dancing Between
Link Danza Festival, Pisa, Italy
17.11.2007
Improvisation Series
AMMO-NITE GIG Vol.18

Dock11, Berlin, Kastanienallee 79
with Yuko Kaseki (Dance)
and Bo-Sung Kim ( Korean Drums)

01.12.2007
Dancing Between
Opening Festival, TUFA Fabrik Trier

22.12.2007
Minako Seki Workgroup
Shift.Points
Site Specific Dance Collage
with Elias Cohen (Physical Theatre/Chile)
Willem Schulz (Cello/Bielefeld)
and participiants of the
Intensiv Workshop 2007

at L.U.X. Berlin
16.-20.01.2008
Shoshin - The Undercover Elephant
Teatro San Gines Santiago de Chile
with Elias Cohen
Willem Schulz (Cello)
Nils Willers (Acting and Light)

17.+23.02.08
Improvisations
witht Rhea Volic, Claudio Penja,
Willem Schulz, Nils Willers

Teatro Beckett, Buenos Aires
28.03.08
My Life As A Dog
Improvisation Performance
with Justin Palermo (San Francisco)
at the Vernissage of Mikki Funk
Gallerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin
1.05.08
Thrust
New York Butoh-Kan Master's Special
with Ximena Garnica
Live video projection by Shige Moriya
Music by Jeremy Slater
Lighting Design by Nils Willers

Cave, New York
05.07.08
Site-Specific-Performance
in Roccatederighi, Toscana
01.08.08
Site-Specific-Performance
in Ottersberg near Bremen
24.08.2008
Sukiyaki Festival Toyama - Japan
with Ensemble Saalam Aleikum
(Korean Drums)

19.10.2008
Ke-Hei Art Salon
at Hoftheater Kreuzberg, Berlin
10.11.2008
TENKAI - The Way To Heaven
with Willem Schulz (Cello)
Culturecentre Wilde Rose,
Melle near Bielefeld, Germany
11.12.2008
We All Are Hanging From The Earth
Minako Seki Workgroup:
Presentation of the 4-Weeks-Intensive Workshop 2008

at Hoftheater, Berlin-Kreuzberg
28.01.09
HAU 1 Berlin
Festival Politics Of Ecstasy Open Mic
5.02.09
KE-HEI ART SALON No.2
at Hoftheater Kreuzberg
25.04.2009
In the setting "Night Views Of Bielefeld"
Butoh-Dance and Musicperformance
at Altstädter Nicolaichurch, Bielefeld
with Minako Seki, Willem Schulz (Cello, Performance
07.06.2009
The serie" Freestyle" presented:
Minako Seki and Ingo Reulecke
"differently together"
Tanzfabrik Berlin
15.07.09
Borderless Split Brain
International Dancefestival Bielefeld
at Tanzlabor
31.07.09
Site-Specific-Performance
in Ottersberg near Bremen
09.08.09
100 Years Adam v. Trott
Site-Specific-Performance
Adam v. Trott Foundation
Imshausen
30.08.2009
KE-HEI ART SALON No.3
at Hoftheater Kreuzberg
13.09.2009
Performance Valparaiso (Chile)
at Teatro IPA
09.10.2009
Butohfestival Barcelona
Picassomuseum
50 YEARS OF BUTOH in Berlin
29.11.2009
Symposium at K-Salon
BUTOH BERLIN AT RADIALSYSTEM V
02.12.09
Yuko Kaseki (Solo) „Unspelled“
Imre Thormann (Solo) „Voyager“
03.12.09
The Second Sleep“, Premiere
Minako Seki, Willem Schulz,
Chan Sook Choi, Joon Sik Shin

www.butohdance.org
23.-26.01.2010
Showcase Beat Le Mot
at HAU 2 Berlin
Choreography: Minako Seki
31.01.2010
Sunday Afternoon Butoh Improvisation
Minako Seki (Dance), Elias Cohen (Physical Theatre), Klaus Janek (Bass)
Labor G.RAS Berlin Kreuzberg
11.02.2010
Benefit for Haiti
Minako Seki Workgroup
Site Specific Dance Performance
in Heilig Kreuz Church
at Hallesches Tor
Berlin Kreuzberg
With Anita Bertolami,Marion/Xochtil Blume,
Iva Jugovic,Kolja Kadun, Antje Schmidt,
Maka Mamporia,Cristina Mantione,
Catarina A. Miranda, Yannik Mochila,
Margarete Niedermayr,Chiara Picotto,
Aurore Renaudeau,Marie-Sarah Linke,
Daniela Schmidtke, Richard Schnell,
Sophie Thirion, Doireann Wallace,
Joame Wittneben, Magdalena Zahn
Minako Seki - Director, Choreographer
Elias Cohen - Director
The income went to a half to" Help for Haiti e.V"
as well as on „Physicians without borders"



2005
60 years ago at 08-06-1945

The Atomic Bombs fallen down
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
Di., 2.August 2005 20.00 pm
at ZDF, German TV:
"The Bomb, Who Changed The World" Film by
Paul Wilmshurst BBC / ZDF 2005, Halfdocumentation with u.o. Minako Seki




Minako was nominated by Kurt-Joos-Award 2001

Jury: Pina Bausch, Malou Airaudo and Josef Nadj (Choreographers), Dr. Oliver Scheytt (Town Essen) and Patricia Stöckemann (Press tanzdrama)
19.05.01 at Choreographic Centre Essen

Minako presentd her piece Schicht (Layer), but was unfortunately not winning. We forgot who was winning, but it was somebody from the circle of Pina Bausch and Folkwangschool Essen. Which lucky winner.




Prize-Winner
for the best Dancesolo by „euroscene 2000“, Festival Of Contemporary European Theater
in Leipzig
at November 2000


The Solo is a Hommage to Rio Reiser, who would been
50 years old at 9th January 2001

Rio Reiser was the singer and composer of the famous German Band Ton, Steine, Scherben


In Memoriam Rio Reiser
The Japanese Butoh Dancer Minako Seki opened the culture centre „Free Republic Fresenhagen". The grave of Rio Reiser in the garden (down). Photos: ddp




In 2007 Minako Seki was nominated
for a guest professorship
at University Giessen/Germany



 

In January 2008 Minako founded together with Elias Cohen (Chile), Willem Schulz (Melle, Germany)
and Nils Willers
K.i.M- Kosmos in Movement,
the Worldwide School of Moving Arts

 


 

Looking backwards
to Bolivia Workshop 2008

 


 

About Workshop New York 2008

 


 



New Photos

 

 

 

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Moving In 18.10.06

 

 

 

 

Belgrade. 25.10.2006

 

 

 

 

 


Flying Butoh Gun with Willem Schulz, Isla del Sol, Bolivia, 2008

 


 

 

 

 

My Life As A Dog with Justin Palermo, 28.03.08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Minako at Isal del Sol, Lake Titicaca, 2008