Yo Xakabé

In 1975 Yo Xakabé began working with few theatrical companies (among them Bungaku-za of Japan.)
At the same time he was introduced to western theatre through the study of the Stanislavsky Method and his performance in Jean Genet's" The Maids". Beginning in 1979, and for the next ten years, he participated in over the twenty choreographic creations of the modern dance company Ishii Midori/Orita Katsuko, and further developed the ISHII System (rhythmic and respiratory).

In 1988 he was the winner of the National Choreographic Competition of Japan.
In 1989 he received a scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Culture and moved to France.
Since 1990 he has studied contemporary dance with José Cazeneuve, through her organic system of the Feldenkrais Method, and Qi-Gong at the Peter Goss Studio.

In 1995 he played the role of the monk in the film of Frédéric Mitterand, "Madame Butterfly," and in 1997 and 1998 played a dancer and a handicapped person in the play by Guy Shelley, "The Draught" at the Japanese Cultural Center of Paris.
From 1999 to 2001 he acted and danced in the play of Gao Xingjian,"Dialogue-Rebuttal" (Nobel Prize for Literature 2000).
In 2003 he participated in the dance work "Three Generations," by Jean-Claude Gallotta, given at the Chaillot Theatre in Paris in 2004, and both in France and abroad in 2005 and 2006.
In 2006 he danced Jean-Claude Gallotta's duo, "Khorsabad" at the Louvre Museum, and in 2007 at the Théâtre Rond-Point Champs Elysées.
Between 1985 and 1995 he choreographed ten works in Japan and in France, notably in Japan, "The Lips of the Ammonite" (1986) and "The Day Is About to Dawn" (1987), and in France," Illusions of an Ostrich" (1994).