He studied the basics of Butoh under Koichi and Hiroko Tamano and Harupin Ha in Berkeley, performing and touring with them in the U.S. and Japan. Hayashi has been practicing Butoh for a decade and half mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a collaborator, soloist, improvisational performance artist, who enjoys working with other artists in all media. Since 1991, he worked with Polish theater director, Miroslaw Kocur in "Waiting for the Godot," San Francisco playwright Helen Pau’s "Foxtrot on the Jizo’s Skin" with the Asian American Theater Company, Theaterworks’ "Nagasaki Dust," Theatre of Yugen’s "Noh Christmas Carol" and controversial modern noh play "Down the dark well," as well as with Pamela Z’s "Gaijin," and "Z Programs." He has been a member of Inkboat since 1999 appeared in "Cock roaches" and as Pink Baby in this year’s production of "Heaven’s Radio." Most recently, he was the creature in the Asylum theater’s new play written and directed by Katrina Jakowski’s "Uroboros," and as Butoh cowboy with Paige Sorvillo in "Just Beyond the Red Burn" at the East Bay Butoh Bazaar #2 in Oakland.
As a performer his goal is to invoke audience with images that
reflect our daily life through the movements of poetic Butoh and elements of traditional/modern theater forms.
Currently he is exploring the art of massage, shiatsu, and planning local shows, touring and workshops. Kinji enjoys watching nature however slowly it may move or crawl, and people, and trying to find ways to save this precious world where we live.