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 |
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/
- Min Tanaka - Artistic director
| 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 |