Sumako Koseki

Sumako Koseki studied butoh dance in Japan under the guidance of Isso Miura. She then became interested in contemporary dance influenced by No and Kabuki and collaborated with Grotowsky in Italy. In 1980 she founded her own company in France, one to have appeared several times at the Avignon Festival and one to perform regularly around Europe. Koseki cooperates with numerous important theatre directors, among them Wladyslav Znorko, Philippe Adrien at La Comédie Francaise and Tabar. She is a regular guest an guest teacher at events organized by SE.S.TA. In Prague she created a production called “A Chronicle of Bones”, a piece commissioned by SE.S.TA and presented at Archa Theatre on April 13th 2004 (sets designed by Adriena Šimotová). Sumako has returned to Tokyo, she is still though in close contact with Czech, French and Japanese dance.