The peace movement, anti-American protests and a burgeoning rebellion against the restrictive establishment united young people in the Japanese metropolises.
[2] In the late 1960s, Furukawa was forcibly expelled from Tokyo Metropolitan Tachikawa High School along with a group of other classmates for their participation in student riots.
The second developmental movement of Japanese butoh, seamlessly following the works of founding fathers Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ono, took place amidst the social upheavals of 1970s Japan, in an atmosphere marked by student riots, street fighting and barricades, performance acts and agitprop .
In 1974, Furukawa joined the legendary butoh company Dairakudakan under Akaji Maro and stayed there until 1979, together with Tetsuro Tamura founded the avant-garde DanceLoveMachine (1979–86) ensemble.
I keep floating away until I finally end up in a quiet bar on another planet.Her life's work includes more than 50 dance and stage works, many of which were created in the 1980s and realized in Europe, including works such as Anzu's Animal Atlas, Cells of Apple, Faust II, Rent-a-body and also:[1] She received grants and prizes, e.g. from the Goethe Institute Tokyo, The Japan Foundation, Japan Arts Council (日本芸術文化振興会), the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, The Art Council of province of Central Finland (Keski-Suomen taidetoimikunta), the Astro-Labium Prize, The International Electronic Cinema Festival in Montreux and the Cologne Theater Prize.