Kana Kitty
カナキティ
- ART EXHIBITION
舞踏家。師を持たずに踊り始め、古来のシャーマニズムと現代のギャル文化を融合させた独自の身体表現「ギャルシャーマン舞踏」を確立。個を超えた感覚知を踊りの回路に接続し、「身体＝媒介」として他者や次元を繋ぐ。ジャンルや文脈を横断しながら、舞踏を更新可能なフォーマットとして提示する。欧州を中心に国内外の芸術祭へ招聘され、世界各地で舞踏作品を発表。2023年、映像作家・谷口猛とクリエイティブプロダクション『写楽街 -Sharaku Town-』を設立し、「舞踏で踊ってみた」シリーズをはじめ、POPカルチャーと舞踏を接続する作品を展開。2024年には活動15周年ソロ公演『ギャルシャーマン』を開催。映画『ブルーピリオド』（2024）、連続テレビ小説『あんぱん』（2025）、DIR EN GREYやキタニタツヤのミュージックビデオ出演など、芸術とエンターテインメントを横断しながら、現代における舞踏の新たな可能性を探求している。
プロフィール画像：撮影 Solène Ballesta
Kana Kitty is a Tokyo-based Japanese Butoh artist and the creator of Gal Shaman Butoh, a contemporary practice that fuses ancient shamanic traditions with contemporary Japanese gyaru culture. After encountering Butoh while studying Fine Arts at Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College, she began dancing independently without a master, developing a distinctive artistic language rooted in ritual, transformation, and embodied perception.
Her work positions the body as a medium between visible and invisible worlds, where memory, perception, and embodied knowledge intersect through movement. Crossing the boundaries of contemporary art, performance, popular culture, and entertainment, she reimagines Butoh as an evolving practice capable of connecting different disciplines, audiences, and ways of knowing.
Kana has been invited to perform at international festivals across Europe and Asia, including FRESH WINDS Art Biennale (Iceland), Go.Elans Festival (France), and MUTEK Tokyo (2021, 2022), the internationally acclaimed festival of electronic music and digital art. In 2023, she co-founded the creative production Sharaku Town with filmmaker Takeru Taniguchi, launching the BUTOH × POPS series, which brings Butoh into dialogue with contemporary popular music. In December 2024, she presented her 15th-anniversary solo production Gal Shaman.
Her interdisciplinary practice also spans film, music, and fashion, with appearances in Blue Period (2024), NHK’s morning drama Anpan (2025), and music videos for DIR EN GREY and Tatsuya Kitani. Through these diverse collaborations, she continues expanding the possibilities of Butoh for contemporary audiences while bridging art, ritual, and popular culture.
Profile Credit：Photo by Solène Ballesta
https://www.kanakitty.com/
プロフィール画像：撮影 Solène Ballesta
Kana Kitty is a Tokyo-based Japanese Butoh artist and the creator of Gal Shaman Butoh, a contemporary practice that fuses ancient shamanic traditions with contemporary Japanese gyaru culture. After encountering Butoh while studying Fine Arts at Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College, she began dancing independently without a master, developing a distinctive artistic language rooted in ritual, transformation, and embodied perception.
Her work positions the body as a medium between visible and invisible worlds, where memory, perception, and embodied knowledge intersect through movement. Crossing the boundaries of contemporary art, performance, popular culture, and entertainment, she reimagines Butoh as an evolving practice capable of connecting different disciplines, audiences, and ways of knowing.
Kana has been invited to perform at international festivals across Europe and Asia, including FRESH WINDS Art Biennale (Iceland), Go.Elans Festival (France), and MUTEK Tokyo (2021, 2022), the internationally acclaimed festival of electronic music and digital art. In 2023, she co-founded the creative production Sharaku Town with filmmaker Takeru Taniguchi, launching the BUTOH × POPS series, which brings Butoh into dialogue with contemporary popular music. In December 2024, she presented her 15th-anniversary solo production Gal Shaman.
Her interdisciplinary practice also spans film, music, and fashion, with appearances in Blue Period (2024), NHK’s morning drama Anpan (2025), and music videos for DIR EN GREY and Tatsuya Kitani. Through these diverse collaborations, she continues expanding the possibilities of Butoh for contemporary audiences while bridging art, ritual, and popular culture.
Profile Credit：Photo by Solène Ballesta
https://www.kanakitty.com/
