Sayoko Onishi
Sayoko Onishi is a Butoh Master. She was born in Hokkaido, Japan. Her dance and choreography are based on the practice of butoh. In this art, she mixes all her practices and melts in her dance elements of every culture she has met, with the desire to unite in her experiences the West and the East. Since 1990, she has been a brilliant solo career as a professional dancer in Europe, working both as a choreographer and as a teacher. Sayoko Onishi is also a teacher of Tai Chi and Qi Qong, disciplines she studied at university in China. Together with musician Emmanuel Fleitz she founded ‘Eden Europe’ for Esch2022.
Eden Europe is a choreographic and musical journey, it is a human experience to build a common imaginary and bring together the cultures present in the French-Luxembourg border territory. It’s an artistic work inscribed in the history of mythical, fabulous and symbolic gardens. And it’s a contemporary proposal marked by the multiple origins of the inhabitants, and a long list of marvelous gardens (the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Garden of Eden, Bosch's Garden of Delights, Hundertwasser's Garden of the Dead, the Garden of the Hesperides, the Labyrinth of the Minotaur, etc.).
Sayoko performed during the Weaving Futures Festival:
