about
Artists Collaborating on Nuage Fou Projects

LUCIE BETZ
French artist, Butoh dancer, choreographer, director and founder
of the Nuage Fou ensemble, clown and clinic clown.
Over 15 years of experience organising a number of artistic projects and productions (as a soloist and with artists from various disciplines) also teaching workshops with the aim to create a platform for innovative Butoh dance projects. ​
Collaboration with renowned dancers such as Makiko Tominaga and Joan Laage. Improvisations and performances in Germany and abroad
as well as at international festivals (FiButoh Chile 2015,
TENRI Paris 2018, Sahara International Theater Algeria 2022).
Founder of the Theater Nuage Fou in Freiburg, a unique independent theater dedicated to Butoh and its related arts (2012-2022). ​
Active member of the Tanznetz in Freiburg, she teaches several professional trainings, performs at the ONES Festival 2019 as well as in the Club Unique event 2024.
Lucie Betz expands her repertoire on stage in the new production “a final joke” with Theater Zerberus and Art of Being, in November 2024.

HARTMUT BETZ
German violin maker by training. Since 2000 independent arborist and tree climber. He has accompanied many
Butoh performances with his violin and was the main person in charge of the technical part and the lighting of the Nuage Fou Theater. He continues to design the lighting for the projects of the Nuage Fou Ensemble.

XIMENA HOYOS
Bolivian photographer artist based in Berlin.
She has photographed most of the projects of Nuage Fou from the beginning and until the end of the theater; from its creations, group to solo performances... indoors and outdoors always trying to make visible the spirit that moves the body.
Artists involved in Nuage Fou projects
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MIKU ARIZONO
Pianist and composer born in Tokyo, Japan; awarded with several prizes, such as first prize in 2020 for the performance of a composition written after 1900, “Livorno Piano Competition” in Italy and first prize in 2024 at the “Duttweiler-Hug Competition” in Zurich.
​Until March 2017, she completed her bachelor's degree with Professor Shinji Urakabe (piano) and went to studied composition
with composer Masa Matsuura at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan.
From 2019 to 2021 Miku Arizono completed her master's degree at the Freiburg University of Music and graduated with the highest notes. This was followed by a concert exam course with Prof. Gilead MISHORY (Freiburg University of Music), which she completed in spring 2023 with top marks. ​
Her first CD “Miku Arizono Recital” has been recorded in 2020.
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RYO YAMANISHI
Pianist born in Tokyo; he completed his Bachelor's degree at the
Toho-Gakuen University of Music in March 2017 with Takako Takahashi, Koji Shimoda and Professor Minoru Nojima. He Later completed his master's degree and also concert exam with
Professor Gilead Mishory at the Freiburg University of Music. ​
Since October 2021, he is being employed as an academic assistant for accompaniment at the Freiburg University of Music.​
Ryo Yamanishi has won prizes in several international competitions and has performed as a soloist with the Südwestdeutsche Kammerorchester Pforzheim, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and the Kurpfälzische Kammerorchester Manheim.
He held a scholarship at the Freiburg foundations Helene Rosenberg Stiftung and Dr.-Leo-Ricker-Stiftung, the Swiss foundation “Fondation Clavarte” and the association “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Freiburg e. V.”
GENEVIÈVE MÉGIER
French-Austrian cellist. A particular emphasis is placed on free improvisation in her work.
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JOAN LAAGE
American Butoh dancer. Kogut Butoh. She received the transmission of the great founding dancers such as Kazuo Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa.
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MAKIKO TOMINAGA
Japanese Butoh dancer, member of the Butoh Company Dairakudakan under the direction of Akaji Maro in Japan (1978-1991).​
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THOMAS G. SCHOCH
German improvising musician. He creates sound worlds close to the Butoh dancers.