COMPANY/Kakuya Ohashi and dancers

1999: Founded.
2000: Participated at the Yokohama Platform in the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis but were judged unpresentable due to the complete nudity of the peformance. Thereafter suspended activity.
2003: Re-started activity.
2004: Presented "Wish You Were Here", and with the same piece received an award at the Lab20 #16 event and entered the Toyota Choreography Award 2004 Nextage.
2005: Invited to a well-known art space, The Kitchen, in New York.
2006: Presented "The Clarity is only a Point of View", which incorporated live video feed in the performance.
2007: Recieved a grant award from The Saison Foundation.
2008: Presented a new piece, "Chain of Clarity" at Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka. Planning to present next piece at New National Theatre in December, 2008.

Kakuya Ohashi and Dancers focuses on the theme, "What is dance?".
Performers in their piece seem to be unrelated each other at first sight as if they are showing dis-communications. However, Kakuya Ohashi and Dancers is challenging to produce a novel way of
communication, a moment of a birth of choreography basing on impossibility of communication. That is quite contrast with lots of other contemporary dance piece which tend to produce relationships between performances without any doubt on possibilities of communication.
Also, their works are influenced by contemporary social problems such as psychological or sexual abuse, and they are trying to transform aspect of the problems.
The choreography is based on the Butoh methods Ohashi learned from Yukio Waguri.

Kakuya Ohashi and Dancers plan to create one new piece every year, and present in Japan and abroad.