2006 japan tour   have a look !
2007 japan tour   have a look !
2008 japan tour   have a look !
2009 world tour  have a look !
2010 world tour  have a look !
2011 asian tour  have a look !

Contrabassist Tetsu Saitoh and dancer Jean Sasportes, long active in the Wuppertal Dance Company of Germany led by choreographer Pina Bausch, are taking a session tour around Japan. The intersection of dance and sound that engenders an analog, flesh corporeity in the performances of a musician and dancer who have been in search of their own realities presents its audiences with a model of sincere collaboration.

2006
japan tour   have a look !

Jean Laurent SasportesDanceTetsu SaitohDoublebass

Aug.31, 2006 - Airegin Jazz Club/Yokohama 
Sep.02, 2006 - Asahi Art Square/Tokyo
  -----------------together with: Yuji Kobayashi (live painting)
Sep.10, 2006 - Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art/Nagoya
  -----------------together with: Toshiya Suzuki (Recorder player) and Kota Yamazaki (Dancer)
Sep.11, 2006 - Aichi Prefectural Art Theater/Nagoya
  -----------------together with: Shunichiro Hisada (Noh musician)
Sep.13, 2006 - Urbangild (Kyoto)
Sep.14, 2006 - Eiunin [temple] (Kyoto)
Sep.16, 2006 - Neue Ruine (Okayama)
Sep.18, 2006 - Aki Ward Community Cultural Center (Hiroshima)
Sep.20, 2006 - Sinfonia Iwakuni (Iwakuni)
Sep.22, 2006 - Gallery CAVE (Hamamatsu)
Sep.24, 2006 - SESSION HOUSE (Tokyo)


2007
japan tour   have a look !

Jean Laurent SasportesDanceTetsu SaitohDoublebass

Sept. 01, 2007: - Airegin Jazz Club - Yokohama
Sept. 06, 2007: - PLAN B - Tokyo------ guest artist Yohko Nishi (Koto)
Sept. 10, 2007: - Art at Tokyo Tech - Tokyo
Sept. 14, 2007: - Bunkamura Gallery - Tokyo
-------------------- with Yuji Kobayashi (Live painting)
-------------------- guest artist Naoka Uemura (dance)

2008
japan tour (Chie-no-wa Trio*)      have a look !

Jean L. SasportesDanceTetsu SaitohDoublebass     Olivier ManouryBandoneon
* Chie is a Japanese painter who loves tango and Astor Piazzola's music, she did a work in relation with Piazzola's tangos which has been presented in a touring exhibition. This trio and this performance has been created to accompanied this exhibition.

March 28, 2008: -  Space and Cafe PorePore (Tokyo)
    -------------------- with guest artist Marie Mine & Masami Takaba (voice & guitar)
March 29, 2008: -  Space WHO (Tokyo)
March 30, 2008: -  Izuruba Studio (Tokyo)
    ---- guest artist Toru Iwashita and Riotaro Yahagi (dance)
April 01, 2008:  - Seikan Gaiku University (Fukuoka)
    ----------------- with guest artist "The Fandangos"
April 03, 2008: -  Aki Ward Culture Center (Hiroshima)
April 04, 2008: -  Rissei Project (Kyoto)
April 05, 2008: -  Nozakikannon Temple (Ossaka)
April 06, 2008: -  Hikone Temple (Biwa)
    ------------------with CHIE
April 07, 2008: -  Tokuzo (Nagoya)
April 09, 2008: -  Omotesando Gallery (Nagano)
April 10, 2008: -  Gallery Tsubaki (Tokyo)
    -----------------with guest artist Kazuo Imai (guitar)
April 12, 2008: -  Odekake Gallery (Saitama)
    ----------------- with CHIE

Organizer: Jean Sasportes & Tetsu Saitoh Japan Tour Operating Committee

please visit:
www.japanimprov.com/saitoh
web.mac.com/travessia115

2009
     world tour  have a look !

japan:
jeanlaurentsasportes(dance)     tetsusaitoh(doublebass)    manahashimoto(dance)

 august 20, 2009 Freakyshow, Shizuoka (Japan)
 august 21, 2009  Shizuoka (Japan)

columbia:
jeanlaurentsasportes(dance)         tetsusaitoh(doublebass)

 august 26, 27, 28, 29 2009, "Impuls" first internationnal dance Festival of Bogota
     "Short Pieces" (first appearance in South America)

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2010
     world tour  have a look !

japan:
April 23, 2010:  - "Rowing the Boat with Mimosa" in Pole Pole - Tokyo,
 ---------------------- new creation with:
             Jean Laurent Sasportes (dance)            Tetsu Saitoh ( contrabass, composition)
             Yuji Kobayashi ( painting ) ---- Chie Inui (poetry) ---- 
Kyoko Kuroda ( piano )
             Tamaki Kasamatsu(on 9th) ---- 
Miwako Yonezawa (on 10th) Recitation

germany:
Jean Laurent SasportesDanceTetsu SaitohDoublebass

June 17, 2010:  - «Short Pieces»  in ADA OBEN, CAFE ADA,  Wuppertal
June 21, 2010:  - Abschluss Konzert des «Artist in Residence»
---------------------with guest artist Ute Völker (accordeon)  in ORT- Wuppertal


2011
asian tour   have a look !
Jean Laurent SasportesDanceTetsu SaitohDoublebass

japan:
March 18, 2011: - at "kid airlack arthall" (Tokyo), LIFE STREAMING Wuppertal-Tokyo
 ----------------- with Naoki Kita (violin)
April 16, 2011: - at Pole Pole (Tokyo), LIFE STREAMING Wuppertal-Tokyo
 ---------------- with "gamma/ut", Tetsu Saitoh's doublebass Ensemble (Seo Takashi, Pearl Alexander, Tanabe Kzuhiro, Tajima Masao)
May 3, 2011: - at Airegin (Yokohama ImproMusicaFes'2011)
 ---------------- with "gamma/ut", Tetsu Saitoh's doublebass Ensemble (Seo Takashi, Pearl Alexander, Tanabe Kzuhiro, Tajima Masao)
May 8,2011: - at Super Deluxe (Tokyo -Ropongi)
 ---------------- with "gamma/ut", Tetsu Saitoh's doublebass Ensemble and Jakie Joe (Dance)
May 21, 2011: - at Sarava (Tokyo)
May 20, 2011: - at St. Andrews Tokyo Church
----------------- with Naoki Kita (violin), Yuji Kobayashi (life painting), Yoshiaki Satoh (accordion)
May 23, 2011: - at CSWC Tokyo Institute of Technology, "Looking for Kenji" from Kenji Miyazawa's Poems
 ---------------- with Naoki Kita (violin)
Mai 30, 2011: - at Barbershop "Fuji" (Saitama, Tokyo), Duo with Tetsu
June 4, 2011: - at Pole Pole (Tokyo)
 ---------------- with Naoki Kita (violin), Junka Satoh (voice)
korea:
Mai 26 and 27, 2011: - Seoul (30th Modafe Dance Festival): "Quartett"
--------------------------- with Jeohong Nam (Dance) and Won Il (various instrument)