Mentor / Source S01

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Seitai-ho and Do-ho educator, performance maker, and Jardim dos Ventos coordinator

Toshiyuki Tanaka is a mentor and source for MSA's study across Seitai-ho, Do-ho, performance, calligraphy, voice, and spontaneous movement.

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Toshiyuki Tanaka in performance practice

About

Practice shaped through attention and inquiry.

Born in Tokyo in 1960, Toshiyuki Tanaka is a body educator and performance maker whose work connects Japanese movement culture with long-term artistic practice in Brazil. He coordinates Jardim dos Ventos in Embu das Artes and guides Fu Bu Myo In, an interdisciplinary field joining body, brush, sound, and space.

Toshiyuki is a licensed Do-ho teacher through Shintai Kyoiku Kenkyujo in Tokyo. His teaching draws on Seitai-ho, Do-ho, Japanese calligraphy, voice, and performance, approaching movement as a way to study organization, attention, ki, and the body's capacity to respond without unnecessary force.

His artistic work includes the performance Fugaku and collaborations across Butoh, Buyo, Noh, music, and visual practice. Within MSA, he contributes senior guidance on embodied transmission, Japanese body education, and the relationship between spontaneous movement and artistic form.

Classes & courses

Ways to enter the practice.

Class / Intensive

Seitai-ho and Spontaneous Movement

Embodied study of sensitivity, self-regulation, and spontaneous movement through practices informed by Seitai-ho.

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Course / Workshop

Do-ho: Principles in Movement

An introduction to Do-ho as a study of body organization, attention, gesture, and movement principles carried in Japanese culture.

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Interdisciplinary Lab

Body, Brush, and Calligraphy

Practice linking movement, breath, brush, ink, rhythm, and spatial attention through calligraphy and embodied composition.

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Artistic Research

Fu Bu Myo In Performance Lab

A performance-oriented field bringing movement into dialogue with voice, sound, brush, image, and collective presence.

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Research

Questions carried through practice.

Seitai-ho, spontaneous movement, ki, and the body's capacity for self-organization
Do-ho, kata, gesture, and body education within Japanese cultural practice
Relationships among movement, voice, sound, brush, calligraphy, and performance
The transmission and adaptation of embodied knowledge between Japan and Brazil

Archive & references

Selected records from the work.

Official biography and practice archive

Toshiyuki Tanaka at Jardim dos Ventos

Jardim dos Ventos' account of Toshiyuki's education, performance work, Do-ho teaching, and Fu Bu Myo In practice.Visit source

Practice article

Do-ho and the art of maintaining focus

An introduction to Do-ho and its development through Hiroyuki Noguchi's body-education research, with Toshiyuki's guidance.Visit source

Work with Toshiyuki Tanaka

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