Min Tanaka

Born in Tokyo in 1945, Min Tanaka is a pioneer within the landscape of avant-garde dance. Since the early 1970′s, he has been developing Body Weather research to explore the origin of dance through farming and dance work in a mountain village in Yamanashi in rural Japan.

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(Objekt ID 25591)
Object type Person
Born 1945
Functions Director, Choreographer, Dancer
Nationality Japanese
Gender Male
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Min Tanaka and his company have danced in theaters, museums, streets, fields, forests, gardens, deserts, rivers and oceans, and rooftops and basements around the world. Tanaka has collaborated with renowned artists from various fields— composers,  visual artists and wirters. He has been awarded Chevalier des arts et des lettre from France.

In addition to his original solo and group work, Min Tanaka has been keen to revive important works of dance and created his version of  “The Rite of Spring” with international groups dancers in Japan, France, Czechoslovakia 1990-1992, and with Russian folk dancers  in Moscow in 1997. He was appointed in 2003 as Master of the new dance department at the School of Dramatic Art in Moscow.

Min Tanaka is involved in projects around the globe,  including: solo within the Yoko Ono retrospective exhibition in New Yorand MIT, Mass., choreography for a version of Werner Hentz’s opera “Venus and Adonis” in Tokyo, an extensive tour in  Europe and USA with series of works inspired by Goya’s print work Los Caprichos.

Kilde: 

Min Tanaka official web site, 12.12.2011, http://www.min-tanaka.com/

Affiliations (1)
Involved in productions (3)
Title Premiere Role
a•form (Min Tanaka) September 9, 2017 Main producer, Dancer
The Dance of Life (Black Box TeaterLillehammer OL) February 17, 1994 Concept/Idea, Choreography, Direction, Stage design, Costume, Performer
Seasons (Min Tanaka) February 25, 1993 Choreography, Dancer