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Born in Saga Prefecture in 1962, Kawaguchi is a member of the performer/artist group “dumb type. After being active in a Spanish-language theater circle in college, he studied a type of movement theater called mime based on pantomime while also participating in a number of projects ranging from experimental theater to dance and performance art. In June of 1988 he mounted his own first production, an experimental performance based on Tennessee William’s Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen at Nakano Terpsichore, Tokyo. From September of the same year he went to study at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on a Spanish government scholarship. Returning to Japan, he joined in the forming of the dance company ATA DANCE with Atsuko Yoshifuku in 1990 and performed with it until its dissolution in 1995. And then, from 1996 he joined the artist group dumb type and took part in creation and the tours of OR, Memorandum and Voyage. The company is still touring with some of the pieces today. From 2000, he has been performing actively with artists, musicians and performers of various genres as well as doing solo works including Night Colour (2001), Di Que No Ves (Say You Don’t See) (2003), D.D.D. (2004), and Tablemind (2006). D.D.D. is a collaboration with the Khoomei (throat singing) artist Fuyuki Yamakawa, who creates works on the theme of technology and the body. Since the piece was premiered in Tokyo in 2004, it has been performed at the Queer Zagreb Festival in Zagreb, Croatia in Sept. 2005, the Venice Biennale in June 2006, the MODAFE 2007 festival in Seoul, S. Korea in June 2007 and at Esplanade in Singapore in July 2007. (Quelle: performing Arts Network Japan)