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Gustavo Collini
Education
National Conservatory of Dramatic Art Actor - Director
University of El Salvador - School of Scenography Scenographer |
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Stage design for
cinema, theatre and television at the Salvador University, in Buenos
Aires. 1986 – 1994
Studied in Japan under Kazuo Ohno and other renowned Japanese masters of
scenic arts. In 1984 Collini
Sartor performed alongside Ellen Stewart in the theatre La Mama, New York.
Later on in 1986 he worked with her in Oedipus in Colona, performed in
Spoleto, Italy. Since 1986, this
dancer and actor travelled and lived in Italy, Austria, Germany, France
and Japan with a special purpose: to come near the father of Butoh dance,
Kazuo Ohno, in order to absorb his teachings in situ and develop them
based on an in-depth knowledge of the original sources. Thus begun his
decade’s long association with Kazuo Ohno and his son Yoshito in Venice
and at the University of Vienna, Austria. That is how Collini Sartor who
emerged from theatre, found in this way of dance his true road to self
expression. In 1987 in Venice
Collini Sartor established the “Teatro delle Immagini” which
participated in the “XLIII Biennale Internazionale d’arte di
Venecia” representing Argentina and the Italian Latin American
Institute. The same year Collini Sartor moved to Japan to continue his
studies under Master Ohno. In 1988, he
studied under Grotoswski in Pontedera, Italy and in France at the The
Voice in the International Centre Roy Hart. In Japan he studied with the
Japanese singer, Michiko Hirayama, Zen and Gregorian chanting. He has also
studied with various prominent actors from the Kabuki and Noh Theatre.
Collini directed and acted in the following theatre performances: 1988 – 9 Romeo and Juliet, Theatre Carlo Goldoni, Venice, Italy. 1989 Il mondo non
mi vuole più e non lo sa, homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini, film maker and
poet, various theatres in Italy. 1991 Antigone,
Sofocles, Theatre Carlo Goldoni, Venice, Italy. 1991 – 1993
Papaveri, supervised by Kazuo Ohno, Festival of the Orient and the West,
Robedo, Italy. 1994 Ki (Tree),
Japan – Argentina Expo, The Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1994 he established “Mundo Butoh” in Argentina with the aim of combining Tango
of Buenos Aires with Butoh in order to disseminate the oriental aesthetics
in South America. 1998, he choreographed and directed a dance / theatre piece that commemorated the
100th year Anniversary of the Japanese Immigration to Argentina. It was
staged at the Opera House Colon Theatre. In the same year he travelled to
Japan to participate in the Asbestos – Kan workshops, the Butoh school
of Master Tastumi Hijikata. 2003 he produced and acted Shinkiro Mystery Tales of Japan, in which he starred
together with the renowned Argentinean actress, Mme. Claudia Lapaco at the
Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. 2004 he participated in the seminars titled, “Japan Millenary Culture / Young
Culture” organised by the Centro Cultural Konex. There he taught at
workshops and he premiered his show, The Rose of Hiroshima. Collini Sartor is
the creator of the Theatre piece Tango Butoh and of Shinkiro Mystery Tales
of Japan, and wrote the first book in Spanish about Butoh: Kazuo Ohno -
The Last Emperor of Dance. Collini Sartor
teaches numerous Butoh workshops in Canada, USA, Japan, Europe and
Argentina. He produced and
directed Tango-Butoh TV, a television series in 15 programmes broadcasted
in Argentina and other countries. He designed an itinerant photographic exhibition Protestar Bailando that shows his performances through the works of well known photographers from various countries. |
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first teachers 1984 Ellen Stewart, "La Mama" Theater (New York), 1st Latin American Festival of Theater in Córdoba (Argentina), Gustavo Collini Sartor is selected as an actor in the show "The last days" directed by Ellen Stewart
1986 "The technique of the Odin Theater". He participated in the seminar directed by Eugenio Barba organised by Cesar Brie and Iben Nagel Rasmussen. Eugenio Barba, "Odin Theater". Ellen Stewart invited him as an actor for the show "Edipo in Colono" from Sofocle, carried out in Spoleto (Italy) Gathering with master Kazuo Ohno, considered as the father of the present days japanese dance, pillar of Butoh dance. 1987 Kazuo Ohno, Stages of Butoh Dance He participated in the Stages of Dance with Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno in Venice (Italy) and in the Viena University (Austria). November 1995 "Butoh Dance, from the master to the disciple", a summary, University of Buenos Aires, School of Philosophy and Letters. 1995 Short-film produced by Videa S.R.L. and the R.A.I. (Italy) which had its debut on December 1995 in the Japanese Garden, Buenos Aires Profesional Studies 1988 Roy Hart of Malerargues (France), with Linda Wise, Liza Miller and Haim Isaacs. J. Grotowsky in Pontedera (Italy) El Pan Theatre in Bologne (Italy), with E. Pardo and Linda Wise James Hillman and Debra McCall, on "The feeling of Myth", (The expresion of the myth in the body in movement) Studies on the voice With japanese singer Michico Hirayama in Rome and in Bologne (Italy) 1993 - 1994 Kazuo Ohno Institute (Japan). He improves his studies with Kazuo Ohno in Japan. At the same time master Yoshito Ohno (son of K.O.) makes choreographies for him.
Profesional Activities 1988 - 1989 As Director: "Love - Hate, Life and Death of Romeo and Juliet" from Shakespeare. Shown in the Carlo Goldoni Theater in Venice, on occasion of the XLIII Bienal International of Art in 1988, representing the Argentine Republic and afterwards making an artistic tour through Italy. "Khema, Life and Transformation of the Soul", carried out in different theaters of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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1989 "The world does not want me anymore and does not know it", Hommage to the poet and cinema director Pier Paolo Passolini, with artistic tour through different cities in Italy 1990 - 1991 "Antigona" from Sofocle. Shown in the Goldoni Theater in Venice, with the sponsored by the Consulate of the Argentine Republic in that city and artistic tour through different cities of Italy. 1991 "Antologic Summary of Theater" from Teatro delle Immagini, sponsored by the Cultural Department of the Argentine Consulate in Venice. 1991 - 1993 "Papaveri" (Poppies). "The man was a tree". With the supervision of Master Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno in the East-West Festival carried out in Roberedo (Italy). Also shown in the Goldoni Theater, show organised by the Consulate of the Argentine Republic in Venice and sponsored by the Cultural Department of the Ministery of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic. Artistic tour through different cities in Italy. 1992 "Antigone". To create between two cultures, from Sofocle. Artistic tour through Italian cities. Artistic tour in Buenos Aires sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Ministery of the Argentine Republic, University of Buenos Aires, Municipality of Buenos Aires, Foreign Affairs Ministery of Italy- Friuli Region - Venice Giulia and Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires 1993 "Antigone" is presented at the closure of the Latin American International Festival of Cinema, Video and Television, carried out in Trieste (Italy). During that year it was presented in different european cities. 1994 "Ki" (Tree). Representation of a show in the Expo- Japan Argentina in La Rural (Argentina). February 1994 "The androgyne". Dance for a single dancer presented by Collini Sartor in the National Encounter of Acoustic Ecology carried out in the Musical Camping in San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina). July 1995 "Butoh Tango". Show presented in the theater Roberto Arlt from the Theater Complex La Plaza in Buenos Aires, with the participation of the bandoneón player Daniel Binelli on the scene. Sponsored by the Municipality of Buenos Aires and the Embassy of Japan. 1996 "Sueños en Danza
Butoh"
Publications 1986 - 1993 "The images of a Theater", in Spanish Editorial Clab S.R.L., Italia 1995 "Kazuo Ohno, The last Emperor of Dance" Editorial Vinciguerra, Buenos Aires, presented at the International Show of the Book, 1995 1992 - 1997 Different publications in newspapers and specialized magazines on Theater in Buenos Aires, Italy and USA.
DVD and FILMS 1993 "Searching the lost Theater". Produced with Video Prisma S.A. (Italy) 1994 The cinema in the theater". As an hommage to Pier Paolo Passolini. Production of Video Prisma S.A. (Italy) 1994 - 1995 "The Androgyne". Produced by Channel 6 of San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina) July 1995 "Butoh Tango". About the show presented in the theater Roberto Arlt from the Complex La Plaza. Produced by cable channel "Solo Tango" (Argentina) October 1995 "The juggler in the carridge". Produced by "Solo Tango" (Argentina)
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