Sacred Sunday: Dancing Myths of the Japanese and the Ancient Greeks

Michiyo Sato-Vagins will present a lecture/workshop on comparative mythologies of Ancient Greek’s Python vs Apollo, and Japanese Black Tiger vs White Wolf. I will introduce the similarity between the myth of Python/Apollo and the myth of Black Tiger/White Wolf of the Yamatsumi shrine in Iitate Fukushima Japan, with pictures of the shrine, and wolf drawings on its ceilings, and movie of the children who dance local sword dance inherited 700 years ago. In the workshop, she will present the movement motif of “Hunting: Black Tiger/White Wolf” to the music of Liszt, to honor the unity of Nature and Civilization which those myths tell us about. Bring a rolled newspaper stick to represent a sword. Wear something easy to move. Michiyo Sato, M.A. Dancer/ Choreographer/ Teacher/ Interpreter Ambassador to Japan, Isadora Duncan International Institute Michiyo Sato is a choreographer, teacher, and dancer who – inspired by mythologies – makes dance blending Modern and Japanese Dances, seeking archetypal body language. She is especially interested in the revival of dance theaters of the ancient Japanese and Greeks in which dance, drama, and music were integrated into one. Together with the Director of IDII, Dr. Jeanne Bresciani, she has held a series of performances and workshops at Tama Art University in 2000, the British Museum in 2001, the International House in Tokyo in 2004, the Asahi Art Square in 2006, a series of universities across Taiwan in 2007, the World Dance Festival since 2008, the Yokohama Forum in 2010, and WAVE 101 in Urayasu in 2012 and 2014. She has also performed Isadora Duncan’s choreography along with her own works at the Delphic Games in Greece, and the Aichi World EXPO, among many other venues.

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