CRS is proud to continue its ongoing relationship with Berlin-based butoh artist Yuko Kaseki. Her newest work, zOne, explores dementia and will premiere at Dock 11 in Berlin, Germany for three performances, Oct 2–4, 2025 at 7:30 pm.
Dementia, amnesia, forgetfulness, memory loss.
We create memories to live; we erase them to survive.
Images, words, sounds flowing endlessly and slipping away.
Interest evaporates; hearts become numb, heads become bloated, and convictions become exhausted.
We are aware of this, yet we would rather not be.
We avert our gaze and pretend we see nothing, yet we see.
It is a cycle and a perpetual paralysis.
In a spiral of silence and sound, Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki moves through what has been lost, while sound artist Mieko Suzuki weaves time. Searching for a place where lost memories dwell unnoticed, inscribed in the body and lurking in the mind, they construct a temporal space through immersive sounds.
Direction, choreography, dance: Yuko Kaseki
Music: Mieko Suzuki
Lighting design: TBA
Photo: Morvarid K
With the kind support of Theaterhaus Mitte
Language: English
Duration: 70 min
Yuko Kaseki is a Director, choreographer, Butoh dancer, performer, and teacher in Berlin. She has performed and taught in over 30 countries. Those creations are the accumulation of poetic and vivid images that incorporate the spirit of Butoh, performance, and live art. Her performance aims to reflect the outsider’s existence. She has been searching for a way to penetrate the space between physical and spiritual expression. Collaboration with mixed-ability artists overturns the concept of her dance and has a great influence on subsequent activities. She has a strong interest in breaking the borders of physical expression.
Mieko Suzuki is a sound artist, composer and DJ born in hiroshima and based in berlin. she deals with time and space as her primal matter. in highly unconventional sound performances, for which she uses drones and field recordings, the crackling of electrical circuits and fragments of vinyl records, mieko suzuki always goes for the unexpected. she couples the raw power of sound with the tenderness of subtle modulations and turns any space into a playground for sonic adventures. Choreographer Meg Stuart, theater director Johan Simons, and avant-garde techno label Raster are among her regular creative collaborators. Mieko Suzuki’s signature take on sound creates equal effect in a basement club, a theater play, or a dance performance as well as in the context of visual arts and haute couture. Mieko Suzuki is a member of the improvisation trio Contagious, together with Andrea Neumann and Sabine Erkelenz. Their first album, “Contagious,” was released by morphine records in 2019. Since 2009, Mieko Suzuki has been running her own bi-monthly, multidisciplinary event, Kookoo, together with Arno Raffeiner at OHM gallery in Berlin.