Naoyuki Oguri (born c. 1963–64), who performs as simply Oguri, is a dancer and choreographer from Japan who lives in Los Angeles, California, where he works creating and teaching dance. His work is influenced by the tradition of the Japanese Butoh style of dance.
Oguri was born in Tajimi in the Gifu Prefecture of Japan. Prior to coming to Los Angeles he studied with master Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of a genre of Butoh dance whom Oguri credits as his inspiration for interest in the field. He also studied and danced with Min Tanaka's Body Weather in a mountain village in Yamanashi Prefecture in rural Japan where he met dancer and choreographer Roxanne Steinberg. In 1990 he came to Los Angeles and married Steinberg. In 2002 he was featured in the book In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art by Meiling Cheng. Oguri was also featured in the film Height of Sky a documentary by Morleigh Steinberg.
Subsequent works include Kalpa, performed at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in January 2012 as well as a performance of Cold Dream Colour as a member of the Arcane Collective at the REDCAT, part of the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex.
assisted paradigm entrusted privately decays
behaving all controlled dependent look alike display
affection for defection when no refuge all the same
dependent never border one world order it away
create a way the mind will have to
find a way in guarding reason alibis
it seems a way defended reasons it seems a way
it seems a way alarming visions it seems a way
a begging man divine instructed shadow poverty
a deeply dirty hiding from too many eaten needs
protection with selection cover all not needing anything
resentment unrelenting change to self destructive means
it seems a way poor execution it seems a way
it seems a way each from a center
it seems a way
addicted horrified abducted outwardly betray
removing all below collective consciousness degrades
ascension from depression which cover chosen all the same
pretend it doesn't matter the world orders it away.
ask as if to find traces out of time back chews on itself a turn that
says it all.
inserting all the tools upon the broken talking dog
if fleeing dirty shadows off of drawings on the wall
a funded self of science from disorder and decay