Jenny Schaffer talks with Shinichi Iova-Koga about how Action Theater has influenced his work.
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Email Interview with Paul Roquet Paul Roquet: What interests me still about Butoh is the use of an array of techniques to thwart all attempts at intellectual interpretation. The grotesque,…
“Yuko Kaseki and Shinichi Iova-Koga, the Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire of Butoh, come together in inkBoat’s Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts….
“Call them postmodern, postminimalist Butoh artists and you might come close to capturing the style of inkBoat. Or call them nothing at all and allow yourself to be seduced by…
Erin Blackwell: Describe your collaboration. what makes this theater? what makes this dance? Shinichi Momo Iova-Koga: The three of us (Ates, Kaseki, Koga) have created this work, which is mainly…
Destruction, Creation, and the In-between DEC 2003 Interview with Shinichi Iova-Koga by Alaska Yamada I recently saw “Heaven’s Radio,” performed by inkboat, a theater group founded and led by Shinichi…
Faun Fables interview The following is an excerpt from an email interview with Dawn in April 2002. bzzt: What things have you and Nils done with the Bay area…
Last Tuesday (1/23/01), students of Shinichi Iova-Koga infiltrated the Emeryville Public Marketplace (a sort of indoor culinary mecca) and performed an ensemble dance amid the diners. They wore drab-colored street…
In August of 1999, I studied under Shinichi Iova-Koga at “Ex…it,” an international Butoh influenced dance symposium in Bröllin, Germany which featured choreographers from around the world teaching 40 students…