Japan & Korea in Feb 1997…
- Between Heaven and Earth. Music and dance performance with Machiko Kaneko (Nihon Buyo dance), featuring Anne’s original music and improvisations with biwa, koto, bass koto, & shamisen. Osaka, Japan.
- Attended the Tokyo Performing Arts Market.
- lesson with Tajima Tadashi
- lesson with Nakamura Shindo
- lesson with Yamaguchi Goro
- meeting with Prof Tsukitani Tsuneko.
- lessons on Korean taegum (daegeum) flute in Seoul with Won Jang-hyon.
back in Australia…
Mar 1997, Director of “Butoh Taiko Shishi”, outdoor performances in the Victorian Arts Centre Vic Health Festival. Yumi Umiumare & Tony Yap (butoh dance); Toshinori Sakamoto & Murasaki Daiko (taiko drums); Anne Norman (shakuhachi, fue).
Mar 1997, Recording artist on the sound track of the movie Heavens Burning. Starring: Russell Crowe & Youki Kudoh. Music: Graeme Koehne/ Michael Atkinson. Screenwriter: Louis Nowra. Director: Craig Lahiff.
Apr 1997, Moonlight Nocturne. Andrew MacGregor, Anne Norman, Riley Lee & Toshi Sakamoto, Melba Hall, Melbourne
Apr 1997, The Last Egg. Duo with dancer Tony Yap, Ausdance showcase, Chapel off Chapel, Prahran.
Jun 1997, Issun Booshi – musical production at Malvern Central School, written and produced by Anne Norman
Jun 1997, “RooFRooF” Multi-media installation piece in a high-rise carpark with live Music and Dance. Concept and production by Lim Tzay Chuen.
Jun 1997, Recording the Jouissance CD Hildegard’s Blood at Studio 56, Collingwood.
Jul 1997, Driftwood concert. Michael Livett & guests Jarek Czechovicz & Peter Haydon, at Aerostato, Melbourne
Jul 1997, ‘Out of the Night’ recital with Peter Neville (percussion) & Nick Tsiavos (bass). Footscray Community Arts Centre
Jul 1997, Vivace. Channel 31, television broadcast of performance with Greg Dikmans (Baroque flute and recorders)
Jul 1997, ‘The Name of the Bud.’ National Gallery, Melbourne. Satsuki Odamura (koto), Riley Lee, Anne Norman & Andrew MacGreggor (shakuhachi) & Toshi Sakamoto (taiko).
Aug/Sept 1997, Japanese Music and Dance in schools in South Australia with Machiko Kaneko. Nexus Arts
Sept 1997, Dancing Nature – performance of Japanese arts at Theatreworks, Melbourne, with Machiko Kaneko (pictured above). Presented by The Boite,
Sept 12 1997, Nihon Buyoh. Machiko Kaneko (dance), Satsuki Odamura (koto), Anne Norman & Riley Lee (shakuhachi). Sydney Asian Theatre Festival, Belvoire Street Theatre. Auspiced by the Australian Institute of Eastern Music.
Aug/Oct 1997, Jouissance recitals in Melbourne and Albury NSW
Oct 1997, ‘Hibiki’ – three performances with visiting drummers from Kumamoto – Rindo Daiko, Assembly Hall, Melbourne