Rihoko Sato

Originally from Tokyo, Rihoko Sato trained as a gymnast in Great Britain, then in the USA. In 1995, she took part in Saburo Teshigawara’s workshops in Tokyo before joining his company, KARAS, the following year, becoming his first assistant and one of his most emblematic performers. Since 2018, she has been producing her own pieces, including Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Virgin, with the vocal and instrumental ensemble La Tempête. She has won many prizes throughout her career, including the Japan Dance Forum Award 2007 and the Premio Positano Leonide Massine per La Danza in 2012.

This workshop is based on Saburo Teshigawara’s dance method that Rihoko Sato has been studying and practicing for over twenty years.
“Teshigawara’s method will enable you to find and understand your own body. You will study and explore your own bodies in relation to breathing. Breathing not as an established technique, but as something essential and necessary for your body, the energy and source for you to move in your own measurement. I believe that knowing about ones own body is something essential for any kind of expression. Our bodies are the gates to connect us with the world outside us.”
Rihoko Sato
 

Rihoko Sato presents IZUMI at Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris on this edition of Camping.