Improv. Improv. - bass, bass, bass, sextet by
Kent Kessler (bass) Julia Mayer (dance)
Darin Gray (bass), Asimina Chremos (dance)
Jason Roebke (bass), Ayako Kato (dance)

Casts' Bio

Press Materials

In the simplest manner, duo by
Asimina Chremos & Ayako Kato

Born, solo by Ayako Kato

Lighting Design by Chris Wooten

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ジョッシュ・バーマン (cornet)
加藤文子（dance）
ジェイソン・レブキ (doubele bass)

2008

11/21-12/21 "Private Dancer"
by Selina Tripp, featuring Ayako Kato

『プライベート・ダンサー』

インスタレーション：セレナ・トレップ、ダンス：加藤文子(ビデオ内）

ティナ・ターナーのPrivate Dancerから肯定的にしろ、否定的にしろ、インスピレーションを得て踊ってくれとの要請を受けて実現した作品。地面に叩き付けられたミラー・ボールにダンサーの姿が映され、暗闇の中で延々と回り続ける。

photo by Selina Trepp

@ Old Gold
2022 North Humboldt Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60647
Basement Entrance
Sundays 1-4PM, By appointment other than Sundays 773.653.9956

"Private Dancer" - a Disco ball, display turntable, video projection, speakers

Selina Trepp asked 2007 CDF Lab Artist Ayako Kato for a private dance. Trepp asked Kato to create a solo dance performance based on Tina Turner's "Private Dancer". The idea not being for Kato to illustrate the song, or to copy Tina's moves, but to find a form that is true to Kato's interpretation of this situation and this song, that is true to Kato's sensibilities. Trepp asked Kato to engage in a format she is not familiar with, with music she would not choose, and to let Trepp film the result. The piece was performed only once, recorded in a single static take, and is unedited other than the looping point. The resulting video is projected onto a large crashed disco ball, sitting on the floor, still in motion, slowly rotating. The video is sprayed throughout the space fractured into hundreds of projections moving across the surfaces. The audio consists of the sound created by Kato's performance, her breath, her feet, her body.

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10/25: Asian American Jazz Festival @ Hyde Park Arts Center, 1:30 pm
シカゴのベーシスト、青木タツ氏が率いるフェスティバル。アジアン・アメリカンのジャズ・ミュージシャンや、パフォーミング・アーティストをフィーチャーしている。ギタリストのマット・シュナイダーと加藤文子のDuoが参加。

10/2&3： The Other Dance Festival @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse, 7:30 pm
シカゴで活躍するダンス・カンパニーとダンサーが、３週間にわたって一堂に会するダンス・フェスティバルにソロ参加

Sound and Movement

7/12＆13: クロスカットーJAJ おととうごきの即興シリーズ , In the Garden at Experimental Sound Studio
7/1: ウィスコンシン大学マジソン インターコンチネンタル・ダンスフェスティバル
クロスカットーJAJ おととうごきの即興シリーズ参加

Art Union 人間風景 [Ayako Kato - Jason Roebke] デュオ
6/27: ムルバウ, スイス、ルツェルン
6/25: ストラスブール現代美術館, フランス

Photo by Christian Wolfarth

今年で執筆百年を迎える夏目漱石の『夢十夜』にインスピレーションを受けて創作された作品。2004年から手掛けて来た『おととうごき夢十夜』の集大成として、赴きあるエピファニー教会で、第一夜の百年後の百合がどのような形で咲くのかが見所。

クロスカットーおととうごきの即興シリーズ

2007年10月より１年計画で始まったコルネットプレーヤージョッシュ・バーマンと、Art Union Humanscape(ベースプレーヤー、ジェイソン・レブキとダンサー加藤文子)によるおととうごきの即興ライブシリーズ。7月12日(土)と13日(日)にExperimental Sound Studioの庭にてパフォーマンスが予定されている。

日時＆場所

10/13/07 10pm Enemy 1550　N. Milwaukee Ave. 3rd floor

11/10/07 10pm Heaven Gallery 　1550　N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd floor

12/8/07 10pm Heaven Gallery 　1550　N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd floor

入場料：御入場の際に寄付を頂きます（通常＄５より）

Josh Berman is a cornetist, composer and presenter living in Chicago. Performing on the cornet, he has collaborated with many of the great improvisers from Chicago and abroad, including: Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ab Baars, Guillermo Gregorio, Jeff Parker, Tobias Delius and Robert Barry. He has also performed as a member of Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, Ken Vandermark's Crisis Ensemble and Jeb Bishop's Lucky 7s. He is co-leader of Chicago Luzern Exchange, whose debut on Delmark Records, "Several Lights", was chosen as one of the top ten local releases of 2005 in the Chicago Reader, and received three and a half stars in Downbeat. He composes for and leads the Josh Berman Quartet. As a member of many ensembles, he has toured widely in the US, Canada and Europe.

Jason Roebke and Ayako Kato (Art Union Humanscape) have been creating interdisciplinary, improvisational works since 1998. Recently, their improvisations have been a laboratory for developing presence as artists in the performance space. The performances contain fewer and fewer events and focus intensely on how they as artists can create spaces for imagination through energy and existence. They investigate the idea, not of object creation, but of the ability of artists to provoke the imagination simply though existence.

チケット取り扱い：

JKダンスアトリエ　

Tel: 03-3713-9010 (9:00-21:00)

Fax: 03-3713-6097 (24時間受付）

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公園通りクラシックス　

渋谷区宇田川19−5　山手教会B１F
Tel: 03-3464-2701　

Music & Dance / Art Union Humanscape - Ayako Kato

Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream III - Eve

『おととうごき夢十夜ー第三弾ー』

Friday & Saturday June 1 & 2, 8pm

Sunday June 3, 7pm

Links Hall

3435 N. Sheffield Ave. Chicago, IL 60657

www.linkshall.org visit

Tickets: $15 ($10 students, seniors)

Call: (773) 281-0824

In Ten Nights Dream (1908) written by Soseki Natsume, a woman passes away after making a promise to her lover.  In preparation for the centennial anniversary of the novel in 2008, the performance Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream III will interpret 4th, 8th, and 10th night dreams, performed with live music on koto and double bass. Kato also presents her solo, Land the land ? standing point, premiered in 2005 at Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks in NYC. Ayako Kato is a dancer and choreographer active in Tokyo and Chicago. In 2006, she created Land the land -9, a peace of idea as an artist in residence at Links Hall. She is a recipient of 2007 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award.  

Original short story: Soseki Natsume

Choreography : Ayako Kato

Music: Brian Labycz (koto/electronics), Jason Roebke (double bass)

Lighting: Chris Wooten

Artistic Production Manager: Aurora Taber

Cast: Angela Gronroos, Nance Klehm, Alycia Scott, Sara Thompson, Ayako Kato

View Past Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream Photo

Jason Stein - bass clarinet
Jonathan Moritz - tenor saxophone
Kevin Davis - cello
Mike Pride - percussion?

Ayako Kato - dance
Jason Roebke - bass
Brian Labycz - electronics

Heaven Gallery

Land the Land -9, a peace of idea @ Chicago Cultural Center

11/25 Sat

Music & Dance QUINTET

Program:

Gregiry Reynolds(reeds) - solo

Gregory Reynolds(reeds) + Jason Roebke(bass) duo

Gregory Reynolds(reeds), Ayako Kato(dance), Jason
Roebke(bass), Steve Hess(percussion), Brian
Labycz(electronics) quintet

AUH with Jim Baker

performance by

Jim Baker (piano)
Jason Roebke (double bass)
Ayako Kato (dance)