New videos:

excerpt of FireButoh3 for lowlives exhibition

excerpt of FireButoh3 for lowlives exhibition Credits:
Recording of Eseohe Arhebamen in a nighttime performance at home, live-broadcast via webcam for the LowLives Exhibition, an excerpt of Fire Butoh 3. Video and video design by Seth Yamasaki. Stage design by Eseohe Arhebamen. Featuring Eseohe’s unique style she has termed, Butoh-vocal theater with excerpts of her sound-works she has termed, Butoh-singing, titled “Harmony” and “Mrs. Obulu, the Cloud” based on poetry published by Eseohe Arhebamen in 2003, recorded 2007. Sound production also by Eseohe Arhebamen, featuring Toshio Kajiwara, “Lexy” Osemwegie-Ehigiator Osazuwa and IGODOMIGODO. Read about this special exhibit on the Labotanica blog or the press release on the Edoheart news/blog:

blue butterfly butoh

blue butterfly butoh Credits:
Filmed by Ernest Truely at Theaterkapelle, Berlin. (2009)
Video editing and sound by Eseohe Arhebamen

#18 (Number 18) from “La Tierra Prometida”

#18 (Number 18) from “La Tierra Prometida” Credits:
La Tierra Prometida, an experimental work choreographed by Eseohe Arhebamen, based on a poem by Clemente Soto-Velez and featuring what she has termed her “BUTOH-VOCAL THEATER” with “BUTOH-SINGING” and “BUTOH-TALKING” at the CSV Center. Dancer-actors are Michael Freeman, Douglas Allen and Eseohe Arhebamen. Visuals and video by Holly Daggers. Special thanks to the painter Miguel Trelles for performing poetry off-camera.

La Tierra Prometida Mini Documentary

La Tierra Prometida Mini Documentary with Eseohe Credits:
A mini documentary about the event, La Tierra Prometida, an experimental work choreographed by Eseohe Arhebamen, based on a poem by Clemente Soto-Velez and featuring what she has termed her “BUTOH-VOCAL THEATER” with “BUTOH-SINGING” and “BUTOH-TALKING” at the CSV Center. Dancer-actors are Michael Freeman, Douglas Allen and Eseohe Arhebamen. Filmed by Mike McLean. Note: CSV Center was actually founded in 1993.

eAIR Butoh sketch

eAIR Butoh sketch Credits:
Eseohe Arhebamen at Forward Motion Theater’s open studio/workshop, demonstrating her unique style of vocal expressions / vocalizing while in butoh-movement that she has termed BUTOH-TALKING, a subset of her larger term, BUTOH-VOCAL THEATRE. This work utilizes an experimental poem for butoh written by Eseohe Arhebamen and titled, eAIR Butoh. Filmed 1/14/09 by Thabi Moyo.

Fire Butoh 3 VISUALS

Fire Butoh 3 VISUALS Credits:
Mixed-media visual projections and soundworks for the Fire Butoh 3 performance.
Images and video created by Eseohe Arhebamen.
Featuring Butoh-singing, soundworks “Harmony” and “Mrs. Obulu, the Cloud” created and performed by Eseohe Arhebamen. Sound collaboration and production by Toshio Kajiwara.
Drumming by Lexy Osazuwa and IGODOMIGODO recorded at University of Benin- Edo State, Nigeria.
Fire Butoh 3 Copyright © 2007-2009 EdoHeart

Fire Butoh 3, Part 1

Fire Butoh 3, Part 2

Fire Butoh 3, Part 3

Fire Butoh 3 Credits:
Eseohe Arhebamen in collaboration with Forward Motion Theater for the Korean Experimental Arts Festival and the Expression Gallery YOGIGA, Seoul, 2008.
Third installment in the series. Filmed 8/21/2008.
Fire Butoh 3 created, choreographed and performed by Eseohe Arhebamen
Sound works, “Harmony” and “Mrs. Obulu, the Cloud” created and performed by Eseohe Arhebamen. Improvisational sound collaborations by Toshio Kajiwara
Video design by Forward Motion Theater / FMT
Special thanks to “Lexy” Osazuwa (University of Benin- Edo State, Nigeria)
Fire Butoh 3 Copyright © 2007-2009 EdoHeart
Note: Featuring Eseohe’s unique style, BUTOH-VOCAL THEATRE with excerpts of her sound-works she has termed, BUTOH-SINGING: “Harmony” and “Mrs. Obulu, the Cloud” based on poetry published by Eseohe Arhebamen in 2003, recorded 2007.

Fire Butoh 2, Part 1

Fire Butoh 2, Part 2

Fire Butoh 2 Credits:
Eseohe Arhebamen performs fire Butoh at Grace Exhibition Space, New York 2008.
Choreography: Eseohe Arhebamen in collaboration with Vangeline
Sound: self-propelled machinemusik by Eseohe Arhebamen and Toshio Kajiwara
Stage design by Eseohe Arhebamen
Lighting design by Jene Youtt
Visuals: Ruby Gold + room 404 media + dinosaur fight of the zuvuya collective
Video: Austin Donohue, Firewalker Productions
Notes: Eseohe is calling this type of butoh performance, Butoh-vocal theater. The sound/music she has created and termed her Butoh-singing.

Fire Butoh 1

Fire Butoh 1 Credits:
Eseohe Arhebamen performs Fire Butoh at Hunter College.
Choreography: Eseohe Arhebamen in collaboration with Vangeline
Sound: Caetano Veloso
Video: Austin Donohue, Firewalker Productions
Notes: This work features what Eseohe has now termed BUTOH-TALKING as part of her larger term, BUTOH-VOCAL THEATRE also spelled BUTOH-VOCAL THEATER

Chaos Diffluence

Chaos Diffluence Credits:
From “Es Su Casa”, 2008. Fred Pinault and Eseohe Arhebamen perform an improvisational sound set at the Jonathan Shorr Gallery.
Notes: Featuring Eseohe Arhebamen’s unique, experimental butoh-sound/music-vocalization theatre style she has termed “BUTOH-SINGING” as part of her larger term, “BUTOH-VOCAL THEATRE” also spelled “BUTOH-VOCAL THEATER”

Es Su Casa

Es Su Casa Credits:
Ritual & Public Intimacy. Eseohe Arhebamen. Guest appearance by Peter Barr. All actions are improvisational. Jonathan Shorr Gallery, 2008.

Environmental Justice Initiative Poetry Slam

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Environmental Justice Initiative Credits:
Eseohe wins a slam competition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, 2002. Over 300 students crowded the University Club in the Michigan Union on a rainy night to hear 16 contestants performing their original poetry on various aspects of environmental justice.