Fukuko Ando
For my first time in Mexico I was invited by Cedim Design School at Mexico Design Week. I created a Performance with Mexican modern dancers.
( Fukuko Ando )
DWM Mexico
Year / 2004
Special thanks to:
Alfredo Salazar and Juan 2Santos
Nô mask has been neglected for a long time.
In the sculpture garden of Yasuo Mizui in Lacoste, France, a dancer wearing the kimono of his first wife, Kiyoko, and wearing Nô mask that Yasuo had preserved.
In a forgotten garden, Nô mask sometimes cries, laughs, and gets angry.
The fantasy memory begins to move with sculptures, Nô mask, and kimono.
( Fukuko Ando )
Franco -Japanese Collaboration
FRANCE
The Kumano Kodō is a series of ancient pilgrimage routes of Japan. It is the path of the wisdom and patience of the old, and some trees are more than 800 years old.
( Fukuko Ando )
In that space, a dancer wearing a yellow “wisdom of light” dress concentrates her soul and has a conversation connecting with “the pilgrim’s wisdom” in space and time.
(熊野古道)
Franco-Japanese CollaborationA French Performance:
**Sacred Places**
JAPAN
Kumano Kodō
(熊野古道)
Performance
Franco-Japanese Collaboration
A French Performance: Sacred Places
Place: Kumano Kodō / Japan
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Performance: Soluna de Cock (France)
Dress: Fukuko Ando (Japan)
Date: 17th October 2017
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The Myth of the Floating Bridge in the heavens there are legends stating that Amanohashidate was originally a ladder used by the god Izanagi No Mikoto to visit his lover the goddess Izanami No Mikoto (Izanagi No Mikoto and Izanami No Mikoto are the gods credited with the creation of Japan)
( Fukuko Ando )
Legend has it that the ladder fell out of the sky into the ocean and became Amanohashidate.
( 天橋立)
Franco-Japanese Collaboration
A French Performance:
JAPAN
**Sacred Places**
Dance dedicated to Konohanasakuya-hime.
( Fukuko Ando )
Konohanasakuya-hime means “cherry blossom blooming princess” in Japanese mythology.
She is the goddess of Mount Fuji.
The red dress expresses the energy of the goddess of Mt. Fuji, with white veins running on a powerful red volcano.
(富士山)
Japan
Franco-Japanese Collaboration
A French Performance:
**Sacred Places**
The Goddess Satya Crowned.The Goddess Satya is the mother goddess of the Pleiades. A five-dimensional mother who has been asleep for a long time now wakes up.
( Fukuko Ando )
Performance: Soluna de Cock (France)
Dress: Fukuko Ando (Japan)
Soundtrack : Gilles Monfort
Voices and Sound Design : Jorge Govea STUDIO W
Hairstyle and flower Crown : Yuta Umeda
The Goddess Satya,
I see your face. Are you sleeping? Where are you?
You are the Goddess at the centre of the Universe, long without your crown.
Yes, you are so sad, so alone.
Goddess Satya, Time has been waiting for you.
Can you hear Time?
The time to wake up is now.
You stir, awaking.
Time is ready.
You dance.
You dance through the Universe.
You dance as the mother of the Universe.
Now you are crowned.
Man is ready.
I hear your voice.
Your clear voice.
Your voice resonates throughout the Universe.
You are the mother of the Universe.
The Universe is ONE.
You are the apogee of Time.
You sing.
Your voice resonates through the Universe; Man listens to your voice.
Joy.
Man opens.
The Goddess Satya is crowned.
Traduction english / Anne Brancaleone
The celebration of dance for the unification of the universe.
“Let’s celebrate that we are, light and love …
Fukuko Ando
Let’s celebrate the eternal dance of life “
** CELEBRATION **
( Video Dance Performance )
ASVOFF 2014 / Mexico City edition
Concept and original idea
Fukuko Ando
Visual Direction and Music selection
Jorge Govea
Choreography
Marisol Cal y Mayor / Altagracia Company
Production of video projection
Héctor Cruz
Dresses
Fukuko Ando
Dancers:
Dalel Bacre
Marisol Cal y Mayor
Julia Farber
Stephanie Janaina
Aileen Kent
Mary Patricia Koyack
Priscila Solórzano
Special thanks to:
Luisa Saenz
Swarovski / Cut Glass
Music:
“Las Estrellas de Los Cielos”
Díaspora Sefardí / Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI
“Danse De l’Âme”
Orient-Occident / Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI
“Trad Kathisme De L’Office De La Nativité – Li-Mâdhâ Ta’Jabina Yâ Mariamu
Marie Keyrouz
Music Arrangements / Jorge Govea / Saint-Maurice Studio / Paris France
Amaterasu is a deity of the Japanese myth cycle and also a major deity of the Shinto religion. She is seen as the goddess of the sun and the universe. ‘
‘If you can feel your inner dance, then you already found me … Amaterasu.”
( Fukuko Ando )
PERFORMANCE
Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo
Largo das Portas do Sol, 2
1100-411 Lisboa
Lisbon / PORTUGAL
YEAR 2015
Performance: “AMATERASU”
Original idea: Fukuko Ando
Music and Live Act: Jorge Govea
Butoh Dancer: Solène De Cock
Production: Juan 2Santos
Hair: Aurelio Ramos (Using Sachajuan)
Hair assistants: Sara Carvalho and Marcio Neris
Make-up: Cristina Neto
Special thanks:
Conceição Amaral / President Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva
Ana Sim-Sim
Pedro Reis Gomes / Stage Set Up
Filipa Coelho
Arts and Crafts Workshops – Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation
Maria Marques and Camila Ferraro
Nuno Neves / Other Features Unipessoal Lda
Mariana Correia and Ana Pires.
