Improvisation Serie
AMMO-NITE GIG
Vol. 17
ist ein Spielfeld für Experimental und Improvisation von Butoh Tanz und Musik.

P R E M I E R E :
29. und 30. September 2007
jeweils 20.30 Uhr

www.cokaseki com
www.inkboat.com

# Organiziert von Yuko Kaseki.
# AMMO-NITE GIG wird (un)regelmässig kuntunierlich imSaal 1 des Dock 11 präsentiert.


Milk Traces a solo performance by Shinichi Iova-Koga

The moment before the leap, the wall inside points to the beginning. We sit in this container every day, measuring the space between high and low. She is afraid to fall, as am I.

c(H)ord ein Work in Progress
„c(H)ord“ is a process-oriented exploration of movement, sound and geography, exploring communal communication (and the breakdown of communication) amongst individuals of disparate cultures. „c(H)ord“ is being developed during residencies in the U.S. and Germany in 2007/08 and will be presented as a world premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco in April 2008.

# Direction:Shinichi Iova Koga
# Performance:Dana Iova Koga, Heini Nukari, Yuko Kaseki

Yuko Kaseki studied Performing Art in HBK Braunschweig with Anzu Furukawa and was member of her company Dance Butter Tokio and Verwandlungsamt in 1989-2000. Yuko Kaseki and Marc Ates found the dance company cokaseki in 1995, perform throughout Europe, Japan, Canada and the USA. These works are based on Butoh dance in present, concise and precise dreamlike dance theater. cokaseki has developed its own rich choreographic vocabulary that is rhythmic and elegant – it follows the path, desperate existence exposes tragicomedy in dense time and space to reveal a kaleidoscope of stories. „Ame to Ame“ received the „Best Ensemble Performance“ by Isadora Duncan Dance Award 2004 in San Francisco. „Let My Fish Loose“ nominated „no-balett, internationalen Dance Competition 2007“ in Ludwigshafen and „Kudan“ nominated „Toyota Choreography Award 2004“ in Tokyo.

Shinichi Iova-Koga is Director, Choreographer and Performer. Originally a photographer, filmmaker and theater director, Iova-Koga entered the life of Butoh dance in 1991 (initially through Akeno Ashikawa and then consistently through Hiroko Tamano). In 1998, he founded the performance company inkBoat. Iova-Koga‘s productions, both solo and ensemble, have been experienced throughout the North American Continent, Europe and Japan. Iova-Koga has collaborated intensively with cokaseki , Yumiko Yoshioka and TEN PEN CHii, Do Theatre, Minako Seki, Shadowlight Theatre, Degenerate Art Ensemble, and often creates improvisation evenings with longtime production collaborators Yuko Kaseki, Sten Rudstrøm and Cassie Terman.

Dana Iova-Koga began her intensive study of dance at New York University‘s Experimental Theater Wing, under teachers Tamar Rogoff and Mary Overlie. She went on to tour Eastern Europe with La MaMa‘s Great Jones Repertory Company in a dance opera version of „Oedipus“.
Her exploration of dance deepened when she joined Min Tanaka‘s dance company, 1997-2002, performanced in Japan, Europe, and the US. Dana moved to Maui in 2003 and continued to explore the body in relation to nature.

Heini Nukari she studied in the school for new dance developement (sndo), Amsterdam. Since 1998 she is based in berlin as a free-lance dancer/choreographer. She has been working a.o. jonna huttunen, ten pen chii art labor, thomas lehmen and christoph winkler. together with anna jankowska (poland) she founded TRAVA 1998. heini’s solo ‘station kautschuk’ received the first prize in the international choreography competition of tanzimpulse salzburg. 2006 she took part in the intensive voice workshop, „towards the realisation of a project“ at the roy hart theatre international centre in France where she developed her new solo, „whitedogballads“, a work which combines movement, songs and text.