Kaya Kitani-Scratchley

Profile
Performance artist

Personal details
Name: Kaya Kitani-Scratchley
Address: 73 High Street, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3DD United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)1342 326513 (home)
+44 (0)7769 908597 (mobile)
Fax: +44 (0)1342 326513
Email: escape...hotmail.com
Website: www.kayakitani.com
Date of birth: 22 March, 1974
Marital status: married
Nationality: Japanese

Education
- November 2007 - present
  Deliver Language of Dance (Stage 3) www.lodc.org
- January 2006 - August 2007
  Language of Dance Principles (Stage 2)
- January 2005 - December 2005
  Language of Dance Fundamentals (Stage 1)
- September 1994 - June 1997 (2nd year - graduation)
  London School of Eurythmy, Peredur Centre for the Arts, United Kingdom
- September 1993 - June 1994 (1st year)
  Eurythmy School, Rudolf Steiner Seminariet, Sweden
- September 1992 - June 1993
  Foundation in the Arts, Audonicon, Denmark

Solo productions

November 2006 - present
  'Night and Sun' - solo eurythmy/dance/choreography collaboration with Melaine MacDonald
  Music by Augusta Read Thomas and Toshio Hosokawa
  Text by Matsuo Basho and Emily Dickinson
  Performed at Rudolf Steiner House, Hamburg as part of Symposium for Contemporary Composers, 2006
  Alanus University as part of Solo Eurythmy Festival, 2007

November 2004 - present
'Malleus Maleficarum' - solo eurythmy/dance/choreography
  Music by Keith Jarrett - 'Ritooria'
  Text by Tamim Al-Barghouti - 'The Gift'
  Directed by Michael de Roo
  Performed at The Place, Robin Howard Dance Theatre, London as a part of Resolution! 2005
  Video shown at XIII Almada Dance Festival, 2005

May 2004 - present
'Twelve Witches' - solo eurythmy/dance/choreography
  Collaboration with sculptor Christine Kowal-Post
  Music by Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings, Psalm, Vidden
  Sculptures by Christine Kowal-Post
  Performed at Lewes House Gardens, Lewes as a part of Artwaves 2004
  20 - 21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe as part of The Big Draw 2005

June 2003 - present
‘Reasons’ - solo eurythmy/dance/choreography
  Music by Giuseppe Tartini - Sonata in G minor, Kate Bush 
  Text from JS Bach - St. Matthew’s Passion
  Directed by Michael de Roo 
  Produced by Md aRT Productions
  Performed at Korzo Theater, The Hague as a part of Holland Dance Festival (announcement in Dutch >>> )
  The Place, Robin Howard Dance Theatre, London as a part of Resolution!  2004 (review >>> )
  Kulturhuset, Jarna, Sweden as a part of Biennale 2004
  Palau Des Les Arts D'Altea, Spain as a part of Dia Internacional De La Danza 1004
  Zwembad de Regentes, The Hague as a part of Eurythmy Festival 2005
 

December 2002
‘Aria’ - solo eurhythmy/dance/choreography
  Music by JS Bach - Goldberg Variations and Alex Pieroni
  Performed in Amsterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven as a part of IN-TRY-OUT 3

Ensemble productions

May 2004 - May 2005
PACK
'Between the Exit Signs' - choreography, ensemble eurythmy/dance
'Vanishing Act' - ensemble eurythmy/dance
  Choreography by Cecilia Bertoni
  Music by Carl Beukman

January 2002 - March 2004
Maison des Mimages
‘Mimages - a symphony in movement’ - solo & ensemble eurhythmy/dance
  Choreography by Rob Barendsma
  Produced by Ernst Reepmaker

November 2003 - March 2004
Company de Voto - solo/ensemble eurhythmy/dance
  Music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Xernakis, Kronos Quartet, etc.
  Choreography by Peter de Voto

June 2001 - September 2002
Fundevogel Eurythmie Theater Wien
‘A Soldier’s Tale’ - eurhythmy/dance, masks (announcement in Dutch) >>> )
  Music by Igor Stravinsky 
  Text by Charles Ramuz
  Choreography by Rob Barendsma

January 2000 - May 2001
Moving Word Theatre
‘En Vision’ - duo eurhythmy/dance (announcement in Dutch) >>> )
  Music by Benjamin Britten - Cello Suite no.3

September 1998 - December 1999
Moving Word Theatre
‘Don’t I Know You?’ - eurhythmy/dance, chorus singing
  Text by Martin Schmandt
  Music by Paul Cleaver 

September 1997 - June 1998
English Eurythmy Theatre
‘Kaspar Hauser - a Mystery’ - eurhythmy/dance, speech chorus
  Text by Martin Schmandt

Childrens’ productions

April - October 2005
Zero Zero Theatre
'Samahd and his Suitcase' - a devised piece about a refugee boy

May 2003 - present 
Theater Mixx and Ajama Movement Theater
‘Erik and His World of Insects’ - Godfried Bomans (www.theater-mixx.de >>>)

June 2001 - October 2003
Fundevogel Eurythmy Theater Wien 
‘Terang Bulan’ - an Indonesian folktale (announcement in Dutch >>> )

June, July 2000
Very Moving Festival Company 
‘Follow the River’ - music theatre 

January 2000 - May 2001
Moving Word Theatre
‘The Story of Demeter and Persephone’ - a Greek story (announcement in Dutch >>> )

June, July 1999
Very Moving Festival Company
‘Young Alfred’ - music theatre 

September 1998 - December 1999
Moving Word Theatre
‘Idunn and the Golden Apples’ - a Norse myth

June, July 1998
Very Moving Festival Company
‘Jumping Mouse’ - music theatre 

September 1997 - June 1998
English Eurythmy Theatre
‘Perseus the Gorgon Slayer’ - a Greek myth
‘Mish-o-sha the Magician’ - an American Indian story

Other Experience

Workshop leader for children’s music theatre
Weekly Creative Dance Classes
Workshops in butoh (Fran Barbe, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie), Suzuki Training Method (Theatre Training Initiative), Classic Khmer, Odissi, Okinawan, Acto Dancer Interdiciplinary workshops (Dance Research Studio, Jacky Lansley)

Interests

Aerobics, khai-bo, body pump, yoga
Art galleries, museums and antique shops
Singing in choirs
Dress making, painting and designing
Picture framing 

References

Michael de Roo
Director of Theater Zwembad de Regentes, The Hague
Weimarstraat 63, NL-2562 GR Den Haag, The Netherlands
+31 (0)70 3656515

Ernst Reepmaker
Director of Fundevogel Eurythmie Theater, Vienna
Streitmanngasse 51, A - 1130, Vienna, Austria
+43 1 8892945

25. November, 2003

In Memoriam Isabelle Rivierez-Dekker

Born in Paris, 8th December, 1940
Died in London, 22nd October, 2003

What comes up first to my mind if I think of Isabelle is ELEGANCE. She encompasses everything that is elegant to my eyes. She had the most wonderful way of carrying herself on stage as well as in daily life. Everything around her seemed to be influenced by this powerful thing called grace. She had the ability to make all things confortable and full of beauty around her.
As a pupil of hers at Peredur Centre for the Arts, I have witnessed her devotion to her art and total belief in whatever she does. It is a gift that not many of us are born with nor can we learn throughout life. She had it both. I still remember how we did the 'Halleluja' before every performance and feeling that with every gesture of 'devotion' she made, had an imprint on me which I will never cease to erase or would even dream of erasing. I do it myself every time to prepare for a performance. I feel very privilaged to have that little piece of gift from her and I will carry it with me wherever I go or whatever I do.

7. October, 2003

About Reasons in the Holland Dance Festival

If I am to say what I would really like to do with eurythmy, I would have to say that there is just one thing. It has always been right from the beginning of my eurythmy career. It is to put eurythmy on the same level as one of the techniques in dance. To commonise this form of movement so that every movement artist would have the possibility to experience it and use it in his or her own way within their creative activities. Eurythmy has the possibility to express in a way that is unique to its form and I think it stands on its own as a tecnique. 

By putting it out in the open, it is a first step in my aspiration. I realise it is process that needs to happen and that it needs to carry on. I hope that more and more eurythmy artists would have the strength and courage to endure and join me in this process. I strongly feel that if you love what you do and believe in what you do, everything else will follow. 

11. December, 2002

About IN-TRY-OUT-3 in Holland

I have learned a whole lot over the three days. First of all, it was really helpful to talk about what we are trying to do. I never get the chance to really talk to people who are not so familiar with eurythmy and are curious to know more about it. By answering those people's questions, it makes it more real and concrete for me. I definitely learned that there is, in most people, a preconceived idea of what eurythmy should look like. And I feel that needs to change. The other thing is that there is also an individual in a eurythmist and that is the essence for making that change to happen. Every individual has a different body, several different bodies, in fact, and working with that difference, there is something interesting and then the creation can happen! I learned that we should always go back to the basics and there can we find the source to everything.