About
Tadashi Endo – Butoh-dancer, choreographer, director of the Butoh-Centre MAMU and artistic director of the Butoh-Festivals MAMU Butoh & Jazz in Göttingen embodies in the truest sense of that word the wisdom of both, the Western and Oriental dance and theatre traditions. After his study as a thea.tre director at the famous Max-Rein.hardt-Seminar in Vienna, he performed in collaboration with jazz musicians. In 1989 he met Kazuo Ohno who already then realized a deep relationship between Endo‘s dance and the Butoh-dance. Since then Tadashi Endo developped his movements to that ethetic and expressive dance, as you can see today. His dance is like a synthesis of theatre, performance and dance, Tadashi Endo succeeds to express the field of tension between ying and yang, male and female and their everlasting alteration. He is the master of being „in between“, that is Butoh – MA.
„Tadashi Endo’s dance reaches beyond the mundane, head-lead conventions of much that calls itself theatre, and instead goes right to its pure essence, straight to the heart.
A true genius and master of his craft, coupled with a humility rarely found in this ego fuelled age, Endo had me by the spiritual balls from the start. His Butoh – MA explores that elusive gap between emptiness and form… form and emptiness. He manages to fill that void with a poetic beauty, precision movement and spiritual flavour. It`s like cut grass and cut glass, one smells good and brings back memory, the other cuts into you leaving a scar.
I left feeling like I`d had my heart touched by someone and something. As such, I`ll be back to get a bit more of this `MA` stuff !“
Review by David Carter,
Venue Magazine. Edinburgh.
If you want to have a very different experience in dance or movement or in your life, you should join a butoh workshop with TADASHI ENDO!
TADASHI ENDO’s workshops are very popular and always sold out. Participants are coming from all over the world to learn from him about butoh dance and butoh philosopy.
TADASHI ENDO is a very unique and wonderful teacher.
“Everybody can dance butoh – may be not the Japanese butoh, but everybody can find his/her own butoh” . These words from Kazuo Ohno give a most important influence in Tadashi Endo’s teaching.
Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

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SASAYAKI (FROM A WHISPER TO CRY) – A Butoh dance theatre created by Tadashi Endo
December 21, 2021
SASAYAKI (FROM WHISPER TO CRY) Director: Tadashi Endo Dancers: Tadashi Endo and three international dancers. SASAYAKI means whisper. With this piece women’s life in difficult situations like war, pandemic, fear, and isolation should be represented in dance. CORONAVIRUS LETTER TO HUMANITY The earth wisperedbut you did not hear. The earth spokebut you did not listen. The earth…
HAUTNAH performance with Tadashi Endo and Marigia Maggipinto and particitpants of the workshop
August 22, 2021
Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 at 08:00 p.m. Butoh Centrum MAMU, Geismar Landstr. 95 , 37083 Göttingen Supported by Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.
Intense-Butoh-Workshop 3.-12. DECEMBER with Tadashi Endo and Marigia Maggipinto
August 22, 2021
Intense Butoh workshop with Tadashi Endo and Marigia MaggipintoStart Friday, Dec. 03, 2021 End Sunday Dec. 12, 2021 Finish this year with a nice experience in dance, especially butoh dance in combination with dance theatre from Pina Bausch! Tadashi chose this combination because Kazuo Ohno and Pina Bausch were good friends and due to Kazuo Ohno we got to know Pina personally. This…
HAUTNAH performance with Tadashi Endo and Günter „Baby“ Sommer (perc)
August 22, 2021
Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 at 08:00p.m. Butoh Centrum MAMU, Geismar Landstr. 95 , 37083 Göttingen Supported by Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V.
Weekend-Workshop 12.-14. NOVEMBER with Tadashi Endo and Günter „Baby“ Sommer (perc)
August 22, 2021
weekend workshop with Tadashi Endo and Günter „Baby“ Sommer (perc)Start Friday, Nov. 12 End Sunday Nov. 14 Günter Baby Sommer is one of the master musicians of contemporary European jazz. He belongs to the circle of extraordinary drummers that developed throughout the improvised music scene a highly individual playing and built up an unmistakable?Born in Dresden in 1943, Sommer studied at the…
Tadashi Endo interviewed on television cultural channel Itaú Cultural.
July 14, 2020
Interview with Tadashi Endo and television cultural channel Itaú Cultural (Márcia Abos) in Brazil during Tadashi’s tour in 2019.