One of Japan's most innovative dance companies will tackle the challenging task of giving form to an almost forgotten music and dance concept, developed by a composer some 90 years ago.
In an upcoming performance in July, choreographer Sakiko Oshima and dancer Naoko Shirakawa of H. Art Chaos will use the physical vocabulary of contemporary dance to realize buyoshi (dance poems) composed by Kosaku Yamada (1886-1965), a Japanese pioneer in Western-style composition.
Oshima and Shirakawa are the driving forces of the internationally acclaimed company that was chosen as Dance Comany of the Year by The New York Times in 2000.