| Awards: 2nd place in All Japan Dance Contest in 1972 Kyoto Prefectural Government Arts and Culture Medal of Honour in 1982 “Spirit of the Fringe” award in Edinburgh in 1995 and 2000 Japan Festival Award in London in 2000 Collaboration With Major Artists: Evelyn Glennie - UK percussionist Seiichi Tanaka and the San Fransisco Taiko Dojo -Japanese drums Oguchi Daihachi and the Osuwa Taiko- Japanese drums Pepe el Chocolata - flamenco guitarist Chikuzan - tsugaru shamisen (3 stringed zither of Japan) Katsuumi Niwa - opera tenor Geoff Smith - dulcimer (UK) Steven Severin - composer / musician (UK) Arban Severin - composer / musician (UK) Kitaro - musician (Japan) Ron Korb - flautist (Canada) Godfrey King - pianist (UK) Major Performance Venues: Lincoln Centre - New York (Himiko - Sun Goddess of Japan) Town Hall - New York (The Dancing Goddess) Berkley Zellerbach Theatre - San Fransisco (with San Fransisco Taiko Dojo) Palais de Congres - Versailles (The Dancing Goddess) ICA - London (The Woman in the Dunes) Riverside Studios - London (Eros of Love & Destruction) Soho Art Theatre - London (The Pillow Book) Reading Concert Hall - Reading (with Evelyn Glennie) Saylis Bennie Theatre - Brighton University (Sex & Consumerism) Russia Concert Hall - Moscow (Kama Sutra) Lenin Theatre - Kiev (Rashomon) Kyoto Concert Hall (Salome) Kyoto Prefectural Arts Hall (The Woman in the Dunes) New National Theatre - Tokyo (The Tibetan Book of the Dead) Setagaya Public Theatre - Tokyo (Salome) Aoyama Enkei Theatre - Tokyo (The Woman Who Dances With the Wolves) Oriental Theatre - Kobe (Salome) Red Brick Warehouse - Yokohama (Empire of the Senses / Realm of Desire) London Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Theatre (Beauty & the Beast) Temples: Tohfukuji Temple - Kyoto (Rashomon) Yushima Seido Temple - Tokyo (Rashomon) Chion-in Temple - Kyoto (The Tibetan Book of the Dead) Kiyomizu Temple - Kyoto (Indian Classical Dance) Otagi Nembutsu Temple - Kyoto (Birth of Buddha) Countries: Japan, India, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaidjan, Yugoslavia, Hong Kong, Korea, China, Israel, Australia. |