Chronological List

1952 Feb 26th Born in Higashiyamato City,Tokyo

1970 March Graduated Tokyo Metropolitan Kita Tama High School

1972 − Entered Asbestos Studio and began training under Tatsumi Hijikata

June Tatsumi Hijikata Performance “Susamedama”, Seibu Ikebukuro Fountain Hall (Japan)

September Tatsumi Hijikata Performance “Nagasu kujira”, Tokyo Kosei Nenkin Kaikan (Japan)

October-November Tatsumi Hijikata Performance “Twenty Seven Nights for Four Seasons”, Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka (Japan)

1973 June Tatsumi Hijikata Performance “A Story of Smallpox” and “Summer Storm”, Kyoto University Seibu Kodo Hall (Japan)

July Tatsumi Hijikata Performance “A Story of Smallpox”, Iwate Prefectural Hall (Japan)

September Tatsumi Hijikata Performance “Quiet House”, Seibu Theater (Japan)

1974 June, July, August Hakutobo Consecutive Performance, Shinjuku Art Village (Japan)

October - December 1976 Hakutobo Consecutive Performance, Asbestos Studio (Japan)

1978 October Kozensha Performance “Wings of Castle”, Three hundred Theater (Japan)

Left the company to become an Edo-Komon Kimono artisan

1985 September, December Tatsumi Hijikata Performance “Tohoku kabuki plan Ⅲ・Ⅳ”, Studio 200 (Japan)

1986 January Tatsumi Hijikata passed away

August The Kishida Office & The Optimists Group “Love Part two”, Toga Festival Toyama, Nagoya, Osaka (Japan)

October Kozensha Performance “Wings of Castle: Beyond Flamand’s House”, Nakano Terpsichore (Japan)

1987 May Kozensha Performance “Wings of Castle Ⅲ: Road of the Sea”, Nakano Terpsichore (Japan)

1988 − Natsu Nakajima & Mutekisha “Sleep and Reincarnation from an Empty Land” Tour, Spain, UK, Australia, NY

1989 − Natsu Nakajima & Mutekisha Tour Montreal, Campinas (Brazil)

1990 June Kozensha Performance “Wings of Castle Ⅳ - Human Water”, Atelier Fountain (Japan)

1991 March Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “The Blue Pillar”, artwork by Shozo Yoshie, Studio 200 (Japan)

December Kozensha Performance “Tortoise-shell Candy” (The Hijikata Study Method Group), Asbestos Studio (Japan)

1992 June Kozensha Performance “Nostalgic July” (The Hijikata Study Method Group), Asbestos Studio (Japan)

1993 January Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “The Story of sun and moon”, music by Shiho Yabuki and Yasumune Muramatsu, The Seed Hall (Japan)

June Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Friends”, Asbestos Studio (Japan)

1994 January Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Wedding on the Field”, music by YAS-KAZ, Theatre X (Japan)

March Yukio Waguri + dido Performance “Spring Thunder”, Shibuya Jean-Jean (Japan)

July Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Born in Half Summer”, Nakano Terpsichore (Japan)

September Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Spiral Dream”, music by Wong Wing Tsan, Shibuya Jean-Jean (Japan)

1995 January Performance with Shozo Yoshie in Atsushi Tanigawa Talk event “The Body of Artistic Expression”, Aichi Arts Center (Japan)

February Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Sinking Waterfall”, music by Tomida Kazuaki and Shuichi Hidano, P3 ART ENVIRONMENT (Japan)

April Yukio Waguri Solo Performance “Oval Dream”, OAG (Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens) Hall (Japan)

September “Christ of Aomori”, Directed by Masakatsu Gunji, Theatre X (Japan)

October Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Spiral Dream”, music by Wong Wing Tsan, Kitanippon Shimbun Hall (Japan)

December TV program NHK Sunday Museum

1996 March Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Butoh Kaden”, Theatre X (Japan)

December Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Oval Illusion”, Video by TATARA, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater (Japan)

1997 February - March Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance, “Ellora - The Dream of the Stone”, Park Tower Hall (Japan)

December Yukio Waguri Performance “Beyond”, OAG (Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens) Hall (Japan)

1998 January CD-ROM “Butoh Kaden”, published by JustSystems

January Seminar “Release of the Butoh Kaden in CD-ROM”, Kinokuniya Southern Theatre (Japan)

February Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Strange Flowers”, Tonami City Cultural Hall (Japan)

February Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Beyond”, Toyama Prefectural Hall (Japan)

March Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “The Topography of the Fantasy” (Original Author: Atsushi Tanigawa), Theatre X (Japan)

August Collaboration Performance with Japanese Puppet Theatre Bunraku and experimental traditional Japanese music “Ikari/ Ikaru Tomomori”, Mikuni Anto Ominato Shrine (Japan)

September Indonesia Art Summit “The Topography of the Fantasy”, TIM Jakarta (Indonesia)

October Yukio Waguri Solo Performance “Bone of earth”, Nakano Terpsichore (Japan)

1999 February Kozensha Performance “Spring House”, Theater X (Japan)

1999-2001 Part-time Lecturer at Waseda University

June Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Human Water”, Shonandai Cultural Center (Japan)

October Performance in The Asia Modern Dance INTERACTION2 (Japan)

November Performance “The Bone of the Ground Ⅱ”, West End Studio (Japan)

2000 October Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “The Bone of the Ground Ⅱ”, Rune Kodaira (Japan)

− Performance at Vancouver Dance Festival (Canada) and Seattle Dance Festival (US)

− Performance “The Bone of the Ground”, Montreal Agora Theater (Canada)

2001 − Tour in Korea & Indonesia, organized by Japan Foundation

2002 − Release of the entrust work by RDC in Vancouver (Canada)

December Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “The Topography of the Fantasy”, Olibe Hall (Japan)

2003 June Performance “Wedding on The Field Atarashiki Tomoe”, Keio University Orientation day, Hiyoshi Raiosha (Japan)

October Exhibition “Tatsumi Hijikata’s Butoh”, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art (Japan)

− Performance “Wedding on The Field”, Dance Festival in Brazil SESC (Brazil)

− Performance “Journey of Spirit”, NY Dance Festival (US)

2004 April Performance “Journey of Spirit”, Keio University Orientation day, Hiyoshi Raiosha (Japan)

− Participation in Yogyakarta Art Festival (Indonesia)

2005 May Performance “The Way of Illusion”, Keio University Orientation day, Hiyoshi Raiosha (Japan)

− Participation in Asia Tri, Seoul (Korea)

− Participation in Yogyakarta Art Festival (Indonesia)

2006 − Participation in CAN・ASISAN・DANCE・FESTIVAL IN TORONTO (Canada)

2007 January Performance “Lightning Rod Shop”, in gala concert: “Hundreds Flowers’ Blossoms”, Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center (Japan)

March Commemorative Performance for Establishment of Kazuo Ono Archive “Journey of Spirit”,　Bologna University (Italy)

March Performance “Journey of Spirit” in Russia Dance Festival, Saint Petersburg and Moscow (Russia)

October Performance in Kazuo Ohno Festival, BankART Studio NYK (Japan)

− Performance in Chuncheon Mime Festival (Korea)

− Performance in Yogyakarta Art Festival and Asia Tri (Indonesia)

− Performance in New York Butoh Festival 2007 (US)

2008 August Guest performer for H. Art Chaos’s work “Dante, La Divina Commedia”, Granship (Japan)

− Participation in Kazuo Ono Festival, Centennial Anniversary plan for Japan-Brazil immigration (Brazil)

December Participation in Japan-Indonesia 50th Anniversary Diplomatic Relation Project (Indonesia)

2009 − Performance in Nyoba Kan International Butoh Festival, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

October Performance in Kazuo Ono Festival, Yokohama BankART Studio NYK (Japan)

2010 − Duet with Yoshito Ono “Radioactive Dust”, Eiko Hosoe Photograph Exhibition, Jissoji Shoin (Japan)

− Performance in Nyoba Kan International Butoh Festival, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

− Participation in NY-CAVE Dance Workshop Collaboration (US)

December Yukio Waguri + Kozensha Performance “Labyrinth of body”, Nippori SanyHall (Japan)

December Performance in Saint Petersburg and Moscow (Russia), organized by Japan Foundation

2011 March Performance in The Nine Theater in Beijing (China), organized by Japan Foundation

− Performance “Transformation”, Bali (Indonesia)

September-October Tour in Chicago, Salt Lake City, NYC, Boulder (US)

November-December Tour in Malaysia and Thailand

2012 January Performance “Journey of Spirit” in Butoh Festival, Santiago (Chile)

April Performance in Butoh Butoh Fest, Hong Kong (China)

August Performance “Ryu Chai Chi I”, Hong Kong (China)

September Performance “Sick Princess” in Kazuo Ohno Festival, BankART Studio NYK (Japan)

November Performance “Journey of Spirit” in Barcelona Butoh Festival (Spain)

2013 May Performance “Francis Bacon”, National Museum of Modern Art of Tokyo (Japan)

July Performance “Francis Bacon”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Japan)

September Performance “Ryu Chai Chi I”, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Hong Kong (China)

September-October Performance “Ryu Chai Chi I”, Kaohsiung and Taipei (Taiwan)

Workshop at National Kaohsiung Normal University National, Tainan University of the Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan)

November Performance “Ryu Chai Chi I”, Macau fringe festival, Gaoshun and Taipei (Taiwan)

2014 April Performance “White Room” (Script by Yukio Waguri), Y-Space, Hong Kong (China)

June Performance “Ryu Chai Chi I”, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

Workshop Y-space Hong Kong (China)

2015 June Workshop at University of Hong Kong, Yan’an University, Xi’an (China)

July Workshop in Warsaw (Poland)

August Workshop at Art Center Berlin (Germany)

August Workshop in eX…it! International dance eXchange and performance festival of butoh and contemporary dance, Schloss Broellin (Germany)

November Performance in Asia Tri, Theatre X (Japan)

2016 February Workshop in Fucheng and Xiamen (China)

March Performance “Chuanqi” in Xian (China)

May Performance “Sick Princess”, Atelier Momosada, Akita University of Art (Japan)

June Workshop in POHRC 4: Intensive Workshops & Symposium Cambridge 2016 (UK)

November Theater Performance (Script by Yukio Waguri) “White Room”, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (China)

2017 March Workshop in Yunnan and Kunming (China)

June Performance “Sick Princess”, Old Kaneko Family House, Akita city (Japan)

July-August Workshop in Japanese Butoh Workshop Xalapa, Mexico city (Mexico)

September Performance in Asia Tri, Akita Senshu park, Honmaru Akita city (Japan)

October Performance in Open Seminars “Assembly- Hour”, Kyoto Seika University (Japan)

October 22nd Passed away from pancreatic cancer, aged 65

2018 May Requiem Event for Yukio Waguri “Journey of the spirit”, OAG (Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens) Hall (Japan)

2020 February Launch of “Butoh Kaden” Website