Gallery

Butoh-esque Practices/Performances(selected)

1998
"Night to be Born", funded by University of Illinois Asian-American studies,
Armory Theatre, Illinois/USA


2000
"The Skirker", by Caryl Churchill, WOW Performance Space, New York/USA

''Welcome to the Dollhouse'', DaDaFest, SOMArts gallery, San Francisco/USA

''Butterfly's Dream'', Dancing Poetry Festival, Florence Gould Theatre, Palace
of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco/USA

''Traveling Series: Journey West/Homeland, Dreambody/Wanderlust'',
21 Grand Gallery, Oakland/USA; ODC Theatre, San Francisco/USA;
Dance MissionTheatre, San Francisco/USA

2001
''Circuits, Currents, & Codes: Meditations on the fury of machines'',
Crucible Steel Gallery, Cellspace, San Francisco/USA;
ATA(Artist Television Access), San Francisco/USA

''Traveling Series'' Lecture-demo, Workshops, Final Performance,
invited guest artist for Contemporary Performance, University of California
at Davis/UCdavis, Wyatt Pavillion Theatre, supported by Graduate Student
Association at UCdavis, Davis/USA

''SFMOMA Benefit'', Lymn Gallery/Free Magazine, San Francisco/USA

2002
''Stygobites'', Temescal Arts Center, funded by city of Oakland Craft & Cultural Arts
Department, Oakland/USA

''Bird Hotel'', San Francisco International Butoh Festival, Fort Masion Theatre,
San Francisco/USA

2003
''Opening Night Gala'', 46th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival,
Embarcadero Center, San Francisco/USA

''PeaceDreams'', Yugen Presents, Theatre Yugen/Noh Space, San Francisco/USA

2004
Advanced Study Diploma, focus in Mime, physical theatre, and final
Butoh Perfomance, Alexander Theatre, Helsinki/Finland

2005
''DanceShorts'', OVT301 Studio Theatre, Amsterdam/the Netherlands

''YPot301'', international guest teacher for inner city youth program with movements
theatre trainings, OVT301, Amsterdam/the Netherlands

''Boundless'', Performance photography touring Oslo/Stenersenmuseet,
Stanvanger/Kunstforening, and other parts of Norway, curated by Jan Christensen,
touring from Feb05-April06, Norway

''Shui-Shui'', Toihaus, Salzburg/Austria

2006
''Boundless'' show, continued above

Artist Fellowship, ICC, Salzburg/Austria(till May07)

2007
''Long River Calls Out My Name'', Argekultur, Salzburg/Austria

''Identität Heute: Aesthetic of the Tradition, Aesthetic of the Banana Generation'',
Butoh Performance Video, Linz/Austria


Collaborations in the past:
Christina Braun@Harupin-Ha
(http://www.harupin-ha.org/)
Terrence Graven@CollapsingSilence
(http://www.evolutionaries.us/collapsingsilence/)
Isak Immanuel@floorofsky &HumanSweingMachine
(www.floorofsky.org)
Kinji Hayashi@inkboat & HumanSewingMachine
(www.inkboat.com)
Ledoh@ Saltfarm
(http://saltfarm.org/)
Page Sorvillo@Blindsight
(www.blindsightperformance.org)
John Doyle@MedicineWheelDanceProject & Tuju Taksu Balinese Mask Dance Theatre
(http://www.butoh.net/performers.html http://www.activations.com/tujutaksu/index.html)
Takami Craddock@Mobu-Dance
(http://www.mobudancestudio.com/mobu_dance/about.htm)
and..
others

Butoh

is one's to its own.

Master teacher Hiroko-sun once told me, 'You don't dance butoh, you live butoh.'
Everything is butoh for me as a gateway to cultivate awareness of the body in its minutness and embodies both simplicity and complexity.
It requires absolute inner focus, limbic concentration, dissolving first-person subjectivity so as to be reflected back to see into your own skin.
Be. To be. Empty. Not empty.
You see it sense it feel it and it is it.
So, it is totally personal yet without prescribed personality.
Your character is you and you can be sometimes a flower delicate fragil and other times a giant kingkong running wild thru the woods.
It goes deeper into your molecure level because within there it is a whole universe of colours vital life force pulsating underneath every breath you make.
Electricity wave form life forms...

Le Poesia while butoh-ing in NYC:

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD OF DREAMS

Am lost

Are found

Men's shoes floating in peeled apple dreams

Heels high knotted on a canal of desires and ice cubes

Flaming lotus seeds spread their legs wide in a house of wonders

Neon lights shine on the dawn of a red-briack building

The City,

La Ciqudad,

ChengTsii,

All baige into the curves of that orange-bluesea sky far away

Tucked within the smoke of chiminies, and white-grey doves of the city

City birds

Birds of bodies

That rebel the sensual habitats

Mistaken bread crumbs as offerings for gods

For that long spiritual path full of junkyards, dumpsters, and crowded sky

Mistaken, the birds

Urban gods never sleep

Reviews

''The Ancient Touch Ensemble danced Butterfly Dream, based on three old haiku poems, choreographed by Delphine Kini Mei, the company's artistic director. A thirty-foot white parachute with a head and a Japanese parasol emerging from it engulfed the stage. As the figure began to twist and turn, dancers emerged from under the chute as if a butterfly were giving birth. The visual effects were stunning.''
-reviewed by Beth Mehocic for Dance Magazine, 2001-


''...Delphine’s dancing soared effortlessly with openness and abandon, bearing her open chest, exposing herself...''
-reviewed by Robert Jarrell, HeadlightJournal, 2003-

''this performance, which is by nature physically existential (“I live the awareness of my body in space and time, therefore I am.”).....drawing from internal and external energies. The diversity of their roots and the will for a confluence of these differences is what defines HumanSewingMachine as a group as well as individual butoh performance artists.' -''Random Acts of World Music and Butoh'', by Yvonne Lai, Asian Week, 2001-
http://asianweek.com/2001_07_27/arts_worldmusic.html

''Darkness eminates Light..'' -butoh proverb-

In the world of dancing as joy, movements as food, and being as brushing your teeth, We embark on a journey through the gates of internal passages, entering a deeper level of physical, emotional, and vast spiritual zones. While the ancient travels to the present, emotional tones become crystalized and thus manifest to its full conciousness, to exist in complete surrendering, pure joyful abandonment..