Shinichi Iova-Koga, Sheila Antonia Bosco, Cassie Terman, Sten Rudstrøm, Dana Iova-Koga, Haruko Nishimura, Yuko Kaseki, Allen Willner, Sherwood Chen, Dohee Lee, Nils Frykdahl, Joshua Kohl, Dan Rathbun, Carla Kihlstedt, Frank Lee, Heini Nukari, Takuya Ishide, Eric Koziol and Mary Lois Hare.
Guests have included Marc Ates, Ernie Lafky and Ellen Sebastian Chang.
Influences
The sky and the wind that blows back the trees. The leaves that wave around like they are on fire. Tatsumi Hijikata, Hiroko Tamano, Yumiko Yoshioka, Tadeuz Kantor, Antonin Artaud, Anne Carson, Ruth Zaporah, Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka.
Founded by Shinichi Iova-Koga in 1998, inkBoat is a performance company built by and with the collaborative efforts of choreographers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, directors and actors.
Working in fractured, filmic, delicate and decayed environments, inkBoat’s performance style is a hybrid of traditional and experimental dance and theater forms weaved with Physical Theater and Japanese Butoh Dance.
All collaborators are independent visionaries that assemble according to project parameters. Living in San Francisco, Berlin, New York, Tokyo and Seattle, the group constellations range from 1 to 15 members, performing in Europe, Japan and North America at dance festivals, street festivals, ocean-sides and theatres.
Venues (for both film and live performances) have included The Lincoln Center (Dance on Camera, NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), JCC (SF), Japan Society (NY), Theatre Artaud (SF), Noh Space (SF), San Francisco International Arts Festival, New York Butoh Festival at Theatre for the New City, San Francisco Butoh Festival at Theatre Artaud, Dance Mission (SF), Venue 9 (SF), JCC (SF), On The Boards (Seattle), Vancouver Dance Festival, Kunsthaus Graz (Austria), Dock 11 (Berlin), Pfefferberg (Berlin), Orph Theatre (Berlin), Fabrik Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany), Schloss Bröllin (Bröllin, Germany), i-camp (Munich), Attitudes Festival (Nancy, France), Divadlo Disc (Praha), Strasnicke Divadlo (Praha), Plan B (Tokyo), Strange Fruits (Tokyo), The Pit (Tokyo), Die Pratze (Tokyo) as well as various site specific performances at ocean sides, in old buildings and shrines.
inkBoat has received funding from Rockefeller Foundation MAP fund (2002, 2006), Creative Capital (2005), Irvine Foundation/Dance USA (2002, 2006), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2002), Japan Foundation (2007), Zellerbach Family Fund (1997-2007), Meet the Composer (2001), Barkley Fund (1997), American Composers Forum (1999), CASH grant (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) and the California Arts Council (1999-2001).
woo heee, shinichi! haven't seen you for ages. have heard some words from yuri n. what you've been up to ? any possibilities to visit japan anytime soon? k
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