Introduction I was blessed to attend a recital by Kaoru Kakizakai in the Onassis Cultural Center of Athens, Greece. Kaoru
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Okuribito (Departures) – A film of Yojiro Takita
“Departures” is a very special film of Yojiro Takita, about Daigo Kobayashi, a cellist with a Tokyo orchestra, who loses
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita Half-way
Continue readingAlain Resnais' and Marguerite Duras' "Hiroshima Mon Amour"
‘I remember Hiroshima’ ‘You remember nothing’ “You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.” ” I saw everything. Everything.” It has been
Continue readingToru Takemitsu – Japanese Composer
Near the end of the Second World War, soldiers and civilians on the Japanese home front constructed networks of underground
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Butoh Dance: "Not thinking, only soul"
Latest edit: 23rd August 2024 Butoh loosely translated means stomp dance, or earth dance. I owe the discovery of butoh
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