Carlotta Ikeda
{{Short description|Japanese-born butoh dancer}}
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| birth_name = Sanae Ikeda
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1941|02|19}}
| birth_place = Fukui, Japan{{cite web|url=http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/aquitaine/2014/09/25/la-danseuse-et-choregraphe-japonaise-carlotta-ikeda-est-decedee-bordeaux-558616.html|title=La danseuse et chorégraphe japonaise Carlotta Ikeda est décédée à Bordeaux|date=25 September 2014 |accessdate=27 September 2014|language=French}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|09|24|1941|2|19|df=y}}
| death_place = Bordeaux, France
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| occupation = dancer, choreographer
| years_active = 1960–2014
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| former_groups = Dairakudakan, Ariadone
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| website = http://ariadone.fr/eng/
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Carlotta Ikeda, born Sanae IkedaPanorama de la danse contemporaine. 90 chorégraphes, Rosita Boisseau, Éditions Textuel, Paris, 2006, p. 270-271, {{ISBN|2-84597-188-5}}. (19 February 1941{{snd}}24 September 2014), was a Japanese-born butoh dancer. She chose her artist name, Carlotta, after Carlotta Grisi.
Biography
Carlotta Ikeda, who had studied modern dance in the tradition of Martha Graham and Mary Wigman from 1960 to 1964, began to collaborate in the early 1970s with the Japanese butoh group Dairakudakan. In 1974, she founded with Kô Murobushi the Ariadone Company, an all-female butoh dance troupe.{{cite web|url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japanese-dancer-carlotta-ikeda-dies-in-france|title=Japanese dancer Carlotta Ikeda dies in France|date=26 September 2014 |accessdate=27 September 2014}} In the 1980s, she settled in France, first in Paris and later in Bordeaux. In Europe she became well-known after she performed solo Utt.
Choreographies (selection)
- 1975: Mesu Kasan (re-performed in 2005)
- 1980: Zarathoustra - at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo
- 1981: Utt - at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo
- 1993: Aï-Amour - at Danse Hus in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1996: Waiting after a text by Marguerite Duras - at Théâtre national de la danse et de l'image
- 1999: Haru no saïten - Un sacre du printemps - at Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris
- 2002: Togue - at Vieille Charité, Marseille
- 2005: Zarathoustra-Variations - at Centre culturel des Carmes, Langon
- 2008: Uchuu Cabaret - création Les Hivernales - CDC d'Avignon
- 2010: Chez Ikkyû - création Le Cuvier - CDC d'Aquitaine
- 2011: Medea - at Théâtre Paris-Villette
- 2012: Un coup de don - at Festival Automne en Normandie
References
Bibliography
Carlotta Ikeda: Danse Butô et au-delà pby Laurencine Lot, Jean-Marc Adolphe, éditions Favre Sa, 2005, {{ISBN|978-2828908645}}.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180923005718/http://ariadone.fr/ Compagnie Ariadone]
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