The meaning of YOKU-BOU is «greed for lust»
TEN PEN CHii
TEN PEN CHii Art Labor is a Berlin-based dance company born in 1995 and closed in 2017. The name comes from Japanese and means natural catastrophe; Art Labor represents the need for research on which the group is based. The group brings together dance of Japanese origin, German sculptures and North American music. The social moment in which the group was born, its multiculturalism and the presence of three autonomous art forms give rise to a unique artistic matrix.
Founded by Yumiko Yoshioka (Japanese dancer, choreographer, teacher and director), JoaXhim Manger (German sculptor, director and producer) and Zam Johnson (composer and painter from Los Angeles)



ORIGIN
This performance is part of the line of work of Ten Pen Chii Art Labor, the interdisciplinary ensemble founded in 1995 that develops a vocabulary of “ritual magic” to articulate moments of crisis and transformation. The company specializes in finding means of expression to portray the violent relationship between the human being, man-made nature and its equivalent technology.
CONCEPT
YOKU-BOU, a Japanese term meaning “greed for lust”, is the starting point for the research of this interdisciplinary performance. In the German context, the term sounds overloaded: greed already comes from desire, it is a spiritual impulse to remedy deficiencies of a spiritual nature (emotions, fantasies, desires) or physical nature (urges, pain, hunger, thirst).
The work explores how lust and greed are powerful driving forces of our acting, feeling and thinking. Greed comes from desire or passion. It is a psychic impulse to remedy spiritual lacks (emotions, fantasies, desires) or physical ones (drives, pain, hunger, thirst). Curiosity leads to discoveries, inventions and developments, while avarice expresses itself negatively in rapacity and greed, designating the excessive aspiration toward material possession regardless of its usefulness.


SYNOPSIS
Lust and greed are powerful driving forces of our acting, feeling and thinking.
Greed comes from desire or passion. It is a psychic impulse to remedy lacks of a spiritual nature (emotions, fantasies, desires) or physical nature (drives, pain, hunger, thirst). Curiosity leads to discoveries, inventions, developments, and avarice expresses itself negatively in rapacity, greed and avidity, and designates the excessive aspiration toward material possession regardless of its usefulness.
Lust is the pleasurable way of experiencing and an essential component of the theory of drives and needs. Lust manifests in nourishment, sporting and creative activities, and as a component of sexual experience.
GALLERY
ARTISTIC CREDITS
Classification: Butoh
Creation: 2012 Ten Pen Chii Art Labor
Duration: 60 min
Choreography: Yumiko Yoshioka & Team
Installation and Design: Joachim Manger
Musical composition: Zam Johnson
Performers: Aniko Kiss (RS), Johannes Stubenvoll (AT), Matilde Javier Ciria (ES), Slava Inazemtsev Viachaslau (BY), Julischka Stengele (DE)
Lighting technique: Stephan Lemanski (DE), Spiros Paterakis (GR)


















