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岡 佐和香 Sawaka Oka
Started ballet and modern ballet at the age of 5. In 1997, met Butoh dancers, Kazuo Ono and Yoshito Ono, and started Butoh.
1998
Studied under Kazuo Ono and Yoshito Ono.
1999
Studied under Natsu Nakajima (Butoh dancer) from 1999 to 2004.
2000
Kazuo Ono’s dance performance “Flower in space” at Theatre Fonte, Yokohama.
2003
Demonstrattion of a butoh work created by Tatsumi Hijikata in Copenhagen (Produced by Natsu Nakajima)
2004/03
Natsu Nakajima 40years Aniversary of Butoh - It 's Getting Late-” at the Japan Foundation Forum, Akasaka, Tokyo.
2004/04
A work for the unit SouVénir,’ “Souvénir” at Y2K, Roppongi.
2004/10
A work for SouVénir“'Kumo to Kujira no Hazama de (Between Clouds and the Whale) ” (ft. HYPERBOREAN a.k.a. Why sheep?) at club Cube, Roppongi.
2004/12
“Romantic - Sickness of Death, at the Residence” by the dance group ‘Image Opera’produced by Butoh dancer Kairi Wakikawa. (At Bashamichi Hall, Yokohama)
2005/03
“Souvénir” (ft. HYPERBOREAN a.k.a. Why sheep? and a movie director, Ippei Endo) at club Citta Kawasaki.
2005/05
SouVénir:“Mix and Culture”（collaboration with Why Sheep?, and Korean artists: pantmimer, Kim Won-Beom & dance group, Atmen） at Bupyeong Pungmul Festival.
2005/08
Sawaka：“ZANBINERRA” by Pierre Darde & the dance group ‘Image Opera’ at Azabu die pratze 2005/09/17 Sawaka’s solo: ‘ROCK IS OUR LIFE’at TOKYO HIPSTARS CLUB, Harajuku.
2005/ 12
Sawaka’s solo: cllaboration with 北京電影学院 at Yokohama BankArt 『五穀豊穣—自然的恩惠展』
2006/11
Sawaka：Session with Kunihiko Sugano, a Jazz pianist at ＬＩＦＥ BAR
2007/07
Sawaka: solo work “Under the moon，when the clay flowers”at shin-bi、Kyoto. SouVénir： performance at法然院, Kyoto’s temple.
2008/3
Sawaka: solo work “Under the moon，when the clay flowers
2008/11
Sawaka: Kyo-Raku-Sya(響楽舎）work “Kyo-Kyo Rai-Rai（虚去蕾来）”
2009/5
Sawaka: Dedicated a dance to the god of paper;Kawakami-Gozen in Okamoto Shrine, Echizen.
2009/7
Sawaka: "Stones of the wind (Kaze-no-ishi)," produced by Kahoru Ishii in Tokyo.
2009/10
Sawaka： sletbubeniku2009 Czech Tour
