Yumiko Yoshioka presents

100 Lights of Solitude

DATE - Saturday August 8th

TIME - 8pm 

DURATION - 50 min

Following Yumiko’s solo Before the Dawn, this is the second part of her trilogy “100 Flowers” Inspired by Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude to explore a state of solitude

Yumiko dances the life of a unique creature, born on a planet 100 light years away from ours. Imagining that this creature is the only one of its species on that planet, it enjoys unfolding its life until it realizes its destiny: to exist in solitude.

Direction/Choreography /Dance: Yumiko Yoshioka
Co-direction: Miguel Camarero
Light design/technical direction: Spiros Paterakis
Music composition:Tomas Tello / Zam Johnson
Costume: Pablo Alarcon
Photo: Francisco Amaral, Edgar Gutiérrez Calvillo

YUMIKO YOSHIOKA – JAPAN / BERLIN

Yumiko Yoshioka is a Japanese Butoh dancer and choreographer. Yumiko is a former member of Ariadone, the first female Butoh company, which was founded by Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda in 1973. In 1989 she started to develop and teach her own form of bodywork. The approach became a pillar of her career as a reflection of her profound understanding of the importance of deepening consciousness of the body, not only in order to dance and express, but also to illuminate our daily life, opening ourselves to the deeper layers of our inner world and rediscovering a subtle beauty in each moment. The strength of this perception led her to create her own method of bodywork, called “Body Resonance” more about my work www.yumiko-yoshioka.com