Dance
With minimum scenery, a Charleston cymbal, bells around her arms and a sampler/rhythm box on the ground, Chikanari Shukuka has invented a style of expressionism that borrows elements from drama, rhythmic gymnastics and flamenco. Dance, present in each movement, is as natural as breathing. Bound by the lead of the microphone that receives her wailing, her body is liberated, as she throws herself around, hitting the edge of a cymbal combining dull violence and a delicate embrace.
Born in the Sixties, the daughter of a tea ceremony teacher, Chikanari Shukuka first dabbled in painting. The desire to dance came upon her in a brutal and instinctive way. She visited the workshops of the butoh dancer, Kazuo Ohno, before starting out on an experimental collaboration with the noise musician Marqido and the singer Atsushi Kinoshita in 2003. The venture only lasted a year, but, in that time, opened up new perspectives of fusion between dance and music, which she decided to tackle solo.
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