Butoh and Butoh-related events
Perforamances, classes and workshops
listinged alphabetically by continent, country, state or province and city, in that order
Last updated May 7, 2010
Please send us listings with performer/teacher/event names, place and date of event, cost and contact information plainly stated.
ASIA-EAST & SOUTHEAST
JAPAN / NIHON
TOKYO
WORKSHOP
Natsu Nakajima
Butoh Workshop (regular classes in Tokyo)
Natsu Nakajima is one of the dancers who laid the foundations of butoh activity under the guidance of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno in the early 1960´s. She established the Mutekisha Dance Company in 1969 and toured intensively all over the world. Her performance "Garden" was highly acclaimed and built up her reputation as dancer and choreographer. She is still active in Japan and abroad.
Open regular classes
Every Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 7:00 PM
Tuition: 2,000 yen per class
Venue: 5 min. walk from Yotsuya San-chome Station (Subway Marunouchi Line)
Tel/Fax: 042 391 4087 (81 42 391 4087)
E-mail: nnakajima7@ams.odn.ne.jp
Web: www.geocities.jp/mutekisha/
YOKOHAMA
WORKSHOP/CLASS
The son of Butoh Co-Founder Kazuo Ohno performed in the first Butoh performance in 1959 as a child and is still going strong. He conducts ongoing regular workshops.
Workshops are every Tuesday, Wednedsday and Saturday. Anyone is welcome to participate.
Two hour class times: 8pm-10pm
Lesson fee: 2000 yen (each participation)
The nearest station is Kamihoshikawa station of Sotetsu local line. 10 min. on foot from the north exit.
Information 045-381-2333
EUROPE / EUROPA
DENMARK
BORNHOLM
CLASS
NORDIC BUTOH * ACADEMY OF CREATIVITY Body & Performance. Land & Life Art. Course & Camp
ART * HUMAN * NATURE
At the beautifully magic island Bornholm, Denmark
+45 2665 5605, info@nordicbutoh.dkwww.nordicbutoh.dk
10 Weeks intensive course 6 May - 11 July-10. Registration deadline 6 April 2010. The 10 weeks course can be graduated to a year education in modules.
Intensive Course, offering rich possibilities of developing your life - and art resources, through body, dance and performing work, by experimenting and educate yourself in an alternative and open creative atmosphere together with others. The international students can stay and live at the farm of Nordic Butoh and Academy of Creativity (Bornholm) with equipment for stage work and surrounded by a fantastic nature, changing from colorful spring to the nice summer of the North.
Bornholm is one of our most beautiful and magic island of Denmark; with wonderful long beaches and dramatic high cliffs. It is situated in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Central for the Baltic Countries Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany, and Denmark, with only 3 hours transport to Copenhagen
Nordic Butoh, is an international alternative performance- and life art school in the North, full of inspiration and spirit of new and old. The idea of the school is to explore personal resources of the human being through creative work related to body, art, culture, existence- and nature.
ART HUMAN NATURE is the setting of a new creative body education program, which can be graduated.
The program is founded by the renowned choreographer and dancer Anita Saij. Through more than 25 years of international prized performances work, intensive teaching programs, lectures, somatic practitioner and as movement therapist, her work has already attracted and inspired many different artists, practitioners, academics, pedagogues, coachers. More than 400 students from all over the world has been participating the courses at Nordic School ofButoh since 2002. This various experience and huge researched material, are now going to be the unfold source in a new certified education; a complete theoretical and practical program, of creative work, inspired by nature, as well as art as human life.
A intensive course can be attended separately, bringing new inspiration to your life or former profession or it can be your preparation to another creative, bodily, spiritual, artistic or academic education. The course can also later on be graduated to a full certified creative body education by adding 3 more modules of 2 weeks each.
After participating at the 10 weeks course you can apply to attend an active platform for students at the farm.
The teaching unified philosophy, body training and art forming, and takes a holistic poetic view at dance and performance art; as the necessary creative process of man, looking for new possibilities and essential understanding of the relation between our life, culture and nature.
Thoughts and methods are inspirited of both the traditional, contemporary and post modern, as the Japanese Butoh, Authentic Movement, Body Mind Center, and other alternative directions of integrative bodywork and aesthetic movement using improvisation, composition and investigation.
The Daily training: Includes theoretical and practical work of the unified authentic body; meditation, breathing, increasing energy, physical and mental focus and awareness. Strength and flexibility in body and mind, dynamic, movement, dance, alignment, centre, Ki and Ma, release, gravity, balance, rhythm, coordination, contact, relaxation, tuning, massage, stretch. Partly MB, Yoga, QI Qong.
Followed up with creative workshops of body work, movement, imagination and transformation, organic dynamic choreography, land art and body landscapes and anatomy, perception, sensitivity, form, space, time and elements, Active, passive improvisation, animalistic and dualities, harmonies, calligraphy, dead body, dreams, masks, intuitive work of vocal and paint.
All training and workshop brings concrete technical work of kinetic and kinesiology together with experimental individual research. The universal aspect of the personal connecting physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual elements as well as integrating the intuitive and nonfigurative abstract, in a more deep mythological and sub-consciousness world. The creative processes open qualities of both the poetical, existential and aesthetical characters.
The purpose is to stimulate personal resources of the individual either as artist or not. To give everyone tools and possibilities to develop physical and mental awareness and confident through artistic, poetic and creative mindful work related to nature inside and outside the human body.
The daily work is going on in the beautiful studio of the farm or out in the fantastic nature. Every day includes partner- and group existences. It is a part of the collective work and the creative process to share experience and information, and to give and receive personal feedback.
Anita Saij: is directing leader of the daily classes. Guest teachers are invited after the 1. module. Teaching language is English. You will be personally guided and coached during the education. Each teaching period will end up in a creative work related to the theme of the period.
Who can attend:The course is for all, who are working with people, movement or body work. You don’t need any specific experience, but have to be ready and prepared to work concentrated mentally and physically independently and in a group. There’s no audition, every one can apply. If you need more information you are welcome to contact Anita Saij. You are also welcome to visit our info days or introduction weekends workshops.
A new alternative creative body - and life art education, integrating Art Human Nature
The program of an intensive long course includes 1. & 2. Module (10 weeks spring) or 1 model (8 weeks autumn) of a longer certified creative body education, which can be graduated up to 5 modules with more modules of 2 weeks. After 1. Module you can return to the Academy and adding modules to your education.
A new alternative creative body - and life art education, integrating Art Human Nature
“Compare to our modern life, the human need to be able to coordinate many different processes. The world gets more informative and functional available. Many things happen at the same time, and this makes it even more important for man to be centred in him self aware and awake at the same time.
The nature is one of our biggest inspiration sources for life and art. We feel connected essential and touched deeply. We are impressed and overwhelmed by its complexity even in small details.
A work with our unified body is like an open gate to awareness and creative flow. We can stimulate all elements of human nature. Our personality is unique; experienced in a bigger collective aspect like the nature it gives deep mindfulness and spiritual satisfaction, together with authenticity in our alert body..
Receiving creative coaching helps you to use all your resources, both physical and mentally. To be able to move and to be moved, awake your creative talents in many way and stimulate your innovative potential together with increasing your life energy, health and happiness either for art or life.
Each module has specific themes and present integrative body work as improvisation, creation, investigation and integrates philosophy, training, and form in the creative work with Art Human Nature.
You can use the education, as creative coach, body trainer, somatic practitioner, art teacher and pedagogy, therapist, creating artist as dancer, actor, painter, chorography, instructor, musician etc. or just as inspiration or development of your life, self confident and body feeling.
Nordic Butoh. Academy of Creativity a, performance and life art education is founded by the international prized and well-known choreographer, designer and movement therapist Anita Saij. The School offers a certificated education, workshops, and international summer camps in mountain of South France and near the ocean of West Bornholm. The teaching is highly professional and has a focus at the unit of the human body in relation to post modern art, existents and nature.
The school provides the setting of a new Academy at the beautiful Island Bornholm, a new education from 2009.
Anita Sai, has throughout 25 years integrated a deep and profound understanding of nature and human body as an interaction between the inside and the outside aspect of nature and the unified body, included awareness and the mindfully creativity.
Her teaching, lectures and performances have been around many cultures from collaborations with the original people of North Sami and Inuit from Europe to Japan and Korea, as former member of the Japanese dance group Body Weather Laboratory and early students of the co-founder and Butoh Master Kazuo Ohno.
The work as choreographer is recognized by a great numbers of artists and institutions such as The Royal Danish Ballet and New French Circus, also as an intense performer herself. Anita Saij founded the international performance group Theatre Dance Lab.1986, and later Nordic School of Butoh and New Open Training a Somatic Institute 2002
Economical: The Academy is a non-profit private and independent Art Culture Centre, which means we don’t receive any financial support. We can help you with an invitation; Course and education gives you good possibilities to ask for grants in your home country if you are artist. Invitation for visa and immigrate paper is only possibly, after you had paid the course.
Work Exchange: We can offer some of the students a reduced price, in the sense of exchanging work for workshop fee or lodging fee. You have to apply the school, with motivation, profession, etc and what kind of work you can manage. We can give you a maximum of 50 % reducing of the price.
Please call for further information. Looking very must forward to your participation, all the best regards Anita Saij
Post and Administration address in Copenhagen: Baadsmandsstraede 43, DK 1407, Copenhagen K.
Students and studio address of the farm at Bornholm: Bækkelund, Bolbvej 7, DK 3782 Klemensker.
Nordic Butoh & Academy of Creativity; +45 2665 5605 - Info [at] nordicbutoh [dot] dk - www.nordicbutoh.dk
DEUTSCHLAND / GERMANY
BERLIN
WORKSHOP
MINAKO SEKI Whitsun Workshop in Berlin
When: Friday to Monday, 21.5.-24.5.10
Fee: 160,00 € (the reduced price is available until 7thmay) /
normal price: 180,00 €,
Info and Application:mail@minakoseki.com
The course is stage orientated and suitable for dancers, actors and professionals in performing arts and persons with a good movement experience.
Lessons:
Friday 21.5.: 10:00-15:00
Saturday 22.5.: 12:30-17:30
Sunday 23.5.: 11:00-16:00
Monday 24.5.: 11:00-16:00
20 hours Training
Programm:
Minako Seki Basic Training
Body Energy Work
Imagination
Improvisation
Presence
Composition
Place:
Dojo KoKuGiKan
in Berlin Kreuzberg
Skalitzer Str. 33
10997 Berlin Kreuzberg
Aufgang B, 2ndfloor
U1/M29 Görlitzer Bahnhof (walk 5 min)
Application: mail@minakoseki.com
WORKSHOP
Butoh beschäftigt sich inhaltlich mit menschlichen Ur-Situationen. Dabei ist Metamor- phose ein Schlüsselbegriff: Es entstehen Bilder und Gefühle von besinnlich-meditativem bis hin zu komisch-groteskem Charakter. ‘Unser Körper, der noch eben gar nicht in der Welt war, die selbst unfassbar im All schwebt, ist ein Riese, eine Welt oder vielmehr ein All gegenüber dem Nichts, wo wir nie hingelangen werden.‘ In diesem Spannungsver- hältnis lernt der Kursteilnehmer seinen Körper zu bewegen, den Raum zu füllen und mit ihm zu arbeiten.
Butoh looks at the world through existential human situations and the principle notion of metamorphosis. It helps us to observe ourselves in continuous transition between the elements and the universe. We learn to move our body within these fields of tension, shaping the space between the earth, the sky, the horizon and the world around us.
Minako Seki, Nagasaki/Berlin. Ab 1985 Company ‘DanceLoveMachine‘ (Tokio). 1987 Mit- begünderin von ‘tatoeba Theatre Danse Grotesque‘, dem ersten japanisch-deutschen Butohensemble. Seit 1996 arbeitet sie als Regisseurin und Choreografin. Sie unterrichtet seit 1990 in der Tanzfabrik Berlin; Lehraufträge beim ‘teatret cantabile 2‘ (Dänemark), an der ‘Akademie for Figurtheater‘ (Norwegen); 2007 Gastprofessur am Institut für an- gewandte Theaterwissenschaft (Gießen).
Level: offen/open 19. - 23.7.2010_10 - 14 h_180,- (160,- €)*
Möckernstr. 68, 10965 Berlin,
Fon +49.30.786 58 61
U- & S-Bahn Yorckstr./Mehringdamm, Bus M19 (Katzbachstr.)
PERFORMANCE
Yuko Kaseki
May 6 Improvisation, Exploratrium, Berlin, Germany
May 18-30 UMBRA, Theater Thikwa/F40, Berlin, Germany
June 12-13 AMMO-NITE GIG Vol.31, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
September 2-5, new piece, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
FRANCE
PARIS
PERFORMANCE/WORKSHOP
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Dance & Movement Enthusiasts,
After a successful premiere and performances of my new duo project, "The Soul of Afrika: A Homage To My Ancestors", in which I collaborated with French musician/percussionist, Fabrice RICHARD, last month in Arlon, Belgium and the ongoing Schools' Programmes in Belgium and The Netherlands, now time has come to yet shift my focus on my next research dance workshop, which will take place in Paris in the last week of May, (25th May till 28th May & 31st May).
Hereby I forward you information and invitation to be partake in this'spiritual/initiation' journey through dance and movement, based on Butoh and African Dance elements.
Kindly find attached the workshop information both in English and French and kindly forward the information to other people who may be of interest.
I do hope to share this journey of an exploration with you as a group!
Please not this workshop is OPEN TO EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND, SO YOU ARE ALL WELCOME!
VENEZ NOUS REJOINDRE! TOUS LE MONDE EST LE BIENVENU.
Wishing you all wonderful Spring days.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE
Choreographer/Dance Teacher/Dancer/Cultural Activist
"Member of UNESCO's International Dance Council - CID"
TeBogO Dance - TBO
Postbus 2233. NL - 1000 CE AMSTERDAM
Tel: +31 6 14232043 / +32 479 835488
Tel Info (in French): +32 472 599 564
Juju Alishina
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Rentrée!
Le samedi matin au Gymnase des Lilas, le 1er cours d'essai est OFFERT au 24 octobre pour les nouveaux élèves.
Le but est d'essayer et découvrir avant de s'engager, ce qui sous entend que vous avez la possibilité de suivre plusieurs cours.
Il n'y aura pas cours le samedi 31 octobre car le Gymnase des Lilas est fermé.
Tous les autres cours seront maintenus même pendant les vacances de la Toussaint.
au 01 40 27 08 83 (Cie NUBA 8h-12h)
http://www.dansenuba.fr/html/coursfr.html
http://www.dansenuba.fr/PDF/BUTO-tract09-10.pdf
SWEDEN
ALMUNGE
WORKSHOP
SU-EN BUTOH COMPANY OPEN WORKSHOPS 2010
at SU-EN Butoh Company studio, Haglund Skola, Almunge, Sweden
August 2-8, Summer camp
November 3-7, Autumn camp
Introduction to SU-EN butoh method and projects in nature.
Open to all. No previous dance training is necessary, but participants need
to be highly motivated and prepared to work hard.
For information on the workshop, cost and conditions:
workshop <at> suenbutohcompany <dot> net
May 15, Masterclass with SU-EN at MDT studio, Stockholm
Basic introduction to SU-EN butoh method
We also recommend Masterclass with Rakini Devi and the performance project with Melati Suryodarmo, as part of Asian Body and Beyond.
For more information: stina.b <at> modernadansteatern <dot> se
www.modernadansteatern.se Tel 0762- 747 718
Photo: Gunnar Stening 2009
STOCKHOLM
PERFORMANCE
Blush
May 10-14
Asian Body and Beyond
13-16
SU-EN Butoh Company
Invited guest performers Melati Suryodormo (Indonesia/Germany), Jason Lim (Singapore) , Rakini Devi (India/Australia) and Hiroko Tsuchimoto (Japan/Sweden). Performances, seminar, art talk, masterclass and workshop project. In focus is the contemporary asian body. www.modernadansteatern.se
Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm
WORKSHOP
Master class with SU-EN and Rakini Devi + Performance project with Melati Suryodarrmo at Asian Body, Moderna Dansteatern, May 15-16. Contact: stina <at> modernadansteatern <dot> se
UPPSALA
PERFORMANCE
June 10-13, Friction International Performance Art Festival, Uppsala Art museum. Theme Spirituality. SU-EN is curating the festival for the third time. Guest of Honour is Tomislav Gotovic (Antonio B. Lauer) from Croatia. 15 international performance artists and site specific performance work. Main collaboration partner for 2010 is Uppsala Cathedral . www.uppsala.se/konstmuseum - Friktioner
NORTH AMERICA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY
CLASS
Hiroko Tamano teaches a weekly class in Berkeley California.
Monday nights 8:10 - 10:00
Place: The Subterranean Art House. 2179 Bancroft way.
Cost: Donation.
http://subterraneanarthouse.org/
PETROLIA
WORKSHOP
DANCE ON LAND | MAPPING THE BODY AND MIND
a seven-day training in nature led by SHINICHI IOVA-KOGA * DOHEE LEE * DANA IOVA-KOGA
June 23-29, average of 6-8 hours per day, seven days
Held at inkGround, a dance center located in Petrolia, a hamlet in the remote Mattole valley of California’s Lost Coast, 6-hours drive from San Francisco.
This year, Shinichi and Dana will be joined by musician/dancer/performer Dohee Lee, and for the first time, sound will be explicitly brought into our explorations. Dohee will lead us each morning in “Mapping the Body and Mind through Sound, Silence, Movement and Stillness.” This will be influenced by Korean traditional movement and music, meditative and creative sound work, and Anna Halprin’s movement ritual.
Housing is your tent. Kitchen is outside. Toilet is rustic.
For more information and online registration: http://danceonland10.eventbrite.com
Please note: We require a non-refundable $50 deposit by May 21st to hold your place.
Costs of Training:
Tuition: $600 (new students) or $525 (returning DoL students: please contact us at info(at)inkboat.com for discount code)
Food: $160 (to be paid separately to caterer, upon arrival to inkGround)
*Limited worktrade is available.
SAN FRANCISCO
PERFORMANCE
"The Crazy Cloud Collection"
by inkBoat & Ko Murobushi
World Premiere at San Francisco International Arts Festival
Thursday May 27 – Saturday May 29 at 8:00pm, Sunday May 30 at 5:00pm
Z Space @ Theater Artaud
450 Alabama Street (between 17th Street & Mariposa)
Reserved Seating: $20 ($25 at the door)
Students, Seniors and Groups of 10 or more: $16
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/100880
1-800-838-3006
Listen to the audio postcast of Ko and Shinichi
PERFORMANCE
BARE BONES BUTOH PRESENTS: SHOWCASE 17
The performances are Benefits for a member of the community who wishes to remain nameless.
WHEN:
Performances: Friday May 7, 2010, and Saturday, May 8, 2010
Both performances are at 8:00 pm
WHERE:
Studio 210
3435 Cesar Chavez St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Studio 210 is located in the former Sears Building, inset from the corner of Cesar Chavez and Valencia Street. Accessible by: BART - 24th St Station: and MUNI - #12, #27, #14, #49.
TICKETS:
Performances: $5-$20 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Additional donations are graciously accepted and gratefully appreciated.
WHO:
This time around, the performers are:
Both Nights - Bad Unkl Sister, Ronnie Baker, Chrysalis, Liz Saari-Filippone, Vangeline, and Bob Webb
Friday Night Only - Molly Barrons, Christina Braun, Mark Deutsch, Martha Matsuda, Flo Nakamura, and Kira Tucker
Saturday Night Only - Darya Chernova, Wolfgang Heinle, Petra Kupers, Luku, Neil Marcus, Ri Molnar, and Abigail Wicks
Surprise guest artists may well also be performing. There are often last minute additions (local, national, and international artists) to the programming, it's that kind of show.
Bare Bones Butoh Presents is a performance showcase for local, national, and International artists working in the areas of butoh, performance art, and/or ritual performance. It exists for artists to try out new material, show works in process, hone improvisational chops, and redo or revisit previous material. Bare Bones Butoh Presents employs the grassroots ethic of working together to sustain an artistic culture.
The minimal fee the audience pays at the door allows Bare Bones Butoh Presents to function as a fundraising platform which supports local Butoh and Performance Artists. Every Bare Bones Butoh Presents show has been a Benefit Performance for an individual or group within the Butoh/Performing Arts community in need. Bare Bones Butoh Presents 15 is no exception. All proceeds from these performances go towards a member of the community in need who wishes to remain nameless. Please feel free to donate freely.
Bare Bones Butoh Presents is community building and performance all smushed together into two evenings.
Local contact and further info:
Bob Webb
415-821-7124
HAWAII
HONOLULU (ISLAND OF OAHU)
CLASS
Abstracting The Essence
Butoh Class with Lori Ohtani, Artistic Director, Tangentz Performance Group
in the beautiful Kenshikan Dojo (1st floor, Coyne St. side of building), Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, 2425 South Beretania St. (2 blocks west from University Ave.)
This workshop is open to all and no background in dance is necessary. Classes begin with warm-ups to increase flexibility and build strength. Using imagery exercises you will learn to activate your senses and become more aware of your individual movements, and learn to develop your own unique voice through Butoh dance.
SUNDAYS, 5:00-7:00 PM. $30/month (4 classes) or $10/class.
CONTACT: Tangentz [at] (808) 387-4861 for more information. Or email at tangentz [at] butoh [dot] net
NEW YORK
GARNERVILLE
PEFORMANCE
Sunday May 2nd, At Gaga Art Center
Vangeline will perform a Butoh improvisation at 2pm at the creek...
Join us for a day out of the city in this idyllic location!
Jonathan Shorr Cordially Invites You To The
10th Annual GAGA Arts Festival
Garnerville Art Center
DATE: Saturday and Sunday May 1-2, 2010 (Rain or Shine) 11:00am-6:00pm
LOCATION: Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center (55 West Railroad Ave, Garnerville, NY 10923 http://www.gagaartscenter.org)
Image: Beyond The Floating Galaxy, Ezra Talmatch 2010
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: DAX VAN AALTEN, MARC FRIEDLANDER, HAL HIRSHORN, MARK ENGER, BRIAN LEO, AMY MORSE, JOHN LANDINO, MICHAEL RECK, GILLIAN HARO, M. HENRY JONES, BOYCE CUMMINGS, YURIKO KATORI, JULIEN JOURDES, ILYA PADALKA, SELMA HAFIZOVIC, EZRA TALMATCH, TIM FERESTEN, BRAD GREENWOOD, FRANK WELLES, RYOHEI MINAMI, CARLTON DEWOODY, JORDAN EAGLES, ALAN EISENSTEIN, RICK M. JOHNSON, ALLEGRA PACHECO
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This year's FESTIVAL includes: ART STARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY: International Multimedia Group Show--EXPERIMENTAL HUMAN Performances--FILM AND VIDEO PROGRAM--MUSIC-DANCE-PERFORMANCE ART--CONTEMPORARY ART VILLAGE
NEW YORK CITY
FESTIVAL
NYBK TEACHING RESIDENCY AND TRAINING INITIATIVE 2010
13 AUGUST TO 11 NOVEMBER
REGISTRATION OPENS MARCH 22ND
RESIDENT TEACHER: MARI OSANI
RESIDENCY TERM: 16 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER
Mari Osanai (b. 1956) is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Noguchi Training. Born in Aomori, Japan, she was trained in Ballet and Modern dance at an early age and later studied Noguchi Taiso (gymnastics), Yoga, Tai Chi, traditional folk dance in Aomor Tsugaru Teodori, and jazz dance.
INTRODUCTORY SESSION
DATES: 13 - 15 AUGUST
COST: $192 (EARLY REGISTRATION), $240 (AFTER 21 MAY)
INTENSIVE SESSION
DATES: 16 - 26 AUGUST (DAY OFF: 24 AUGUST)
COST: $580 (EARLY REGISTRATION), $680 (AFTER 21 MAY)
RESIDENT TEACHER: YUKIO WAGURI
RESIDENCY TERM: 9 - 29 SEPTEMBER
Yukio Waguri was the main male dancer at Tatsumi Hijikatas Asbestos-kan during 1972-1978. Over the past 25 years he has taught and worked around the world, and he is currently the Artistic Director of the Kohzensha Butoh Company.
INTRODUCTORY SESSION
DATES: 10 - 12 SEPTEMBER
COST: $192 (EARLY REGISTRATION), $240 (AFTER 21 MAY)
INTENSIVE SESSION
DATES: 16 - 26 SEPTEMBER (DAY OFF: 21 SEPTEMBER)
COST: $580 (EARLY REGISTRATION), $680 (AFTER 21 MAY)
RESIDENT TEACHER: IMRE THORMANN
RESIDENCY TERM: 1 - 21 OCTOBER
After completing his education in the F.M. Alexander technique in 1990, Imre Thormann (b.1966) relocated to Tokyo to study with Butoh co-founder Kazuo Ohno and with Michizou Noguchi. Since 1993, he has put on several Butoh solo performances in Europe as well as in Japan, and initiated the first Japan Now Festival in Bern (Switzerland) and Gdansk (Poland) together with Shigeo Makabe. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
INTRODUCTORY SESSION
DATES: 1 - 3 OCTOBER
COST: $192 (EARLY REGISTRATION), $240 (AFTER 21 MAY)
INTENSIVE SESSION
DATES: 7 - 17 OCTOBER (DAY OFF: 12 OCTOBER)
COST: $580 (EARLY REGISTRATION), $680 (AFTER 21 MAY)
RESIDENT TEACHER: YUKIO SUZUKI
RESIDENCY TERM: 22 OCTOBER - 11 NOVEMBER
Yukio Suzuki began training in butoh in Asbestos House in 1997 and has performed in works by artists such as Ko Murobushi, Tuyoshi Shirai, Goro Namerikawa (the starting member of Sankaijuku), and performance group SAL-VANILLA. Recently, he has choreographed for other companies including the Tokyo City Ballet, participated in the Asia Dance Conference and led workshops on butoh.
INTRODUCTORY SESSION
DATES: 22 - 24 OCTOBER
COST: $192 (EARLY REGISTRATION), $240 (AFTER 21 MAY)
INTENSIVE SESSION
DATES: 28 OCTOBER - 7 NOVEMBER (DAY OFF: 2 NOVEMBER)
COST: $580 (EARLY REGISTRATION), $680 (AFTER 21 MAY)
LEIMAY OPEN CLASS
DATES: EVERY SATURDAY IN AUGUST, OCTOBER, AND NOVEMBER, FROM 3:30-7:30 PM
COST: $15/CLASS
Ximena Garnica is the Artistic Director of LEIMAY, an interdisciplinary project company and laboratory of performance in residency at CAVE. She has been practicing and studying theatre since childhood and has been exploring butoh dance for the past ten years. Her work is constantly questioning the body as a medium and dance, theater, and/or installation as a genre. This class is an opportunity to experience the company’s ongoing training and to be considered for LEIMAY performance and investigation projects.
EARLY REGISTRATION INTENSIVE SESSION SPECIAL! TAKE TWO INTENSIVE SESSIONS FOR $1080, THREE FOR $1470, AND FOUR FOR $1760 WHEN YOU REGISTER BEFORE 21 MAY! SEE NYBK 2010 WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS:
http://web.me.com/caveorg/nybk-2010/Training_10.html
PERFORMANCE
The Vangeline Theater is proud to perform at
The legendary Night of Thousand Stevies, on May 14th.
Look for our butoh "method go go" sets
at 10pm and midnight!
FRIDAY MAY 14
THE JACKIE FACTORY NYC PRESENTS
NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES 20
SISTERS OF THE MOON
THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM NYC
431 WEST 16TH STREET NYC
DOORS OPEN 9 PM - 4 AM
$25 IN ADVANCE AND AT DOOR IF AVAILABLE
18 AND OVER, 21 TO DRINK
EVENT WEBSITE
http://www.mothernyc.com/stevie/
BOX OFFICE
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THE JACKIE FACTORY is thrilled to announce that their 20th annual edition NOTS 20 is coming up on May 14, 2010 at the HIGHLINE BALLROOM in NYC. This year's moonlit, milestone edition was inspired by one of Stevie's most enduring and iconic songs, SISTERS OF THE MOON. Though Stevie has not performed this song much of late, it has remained a showpiece and staple of some of NOTS most thrilling performers past and present. Expect a midnight sky lit up by La Nicks' most enduring archetypes and images, including the Nightbird, The Welsh Witch and The Moon Goddess.
This year's bill features Legends of Stevie Realness from all eras of the show, and honors them all, our Sisters (and Brothers) of the Moon. "Enchantresses of Ceremony" CHI CHI VALENTI and HATTIE HATHAWAY will introduce this staggering cast: Returning performers are BELLADONNA (CALIFORNIA), SHERRY VINE, JUSTIN BOND, THE HO-HOS, GYPSY WILDE, JAZMEN FLOWERS (MISSISSIPI), SWEETIE, ADAM DUGAS, AMBER MARTIN & MIA THEODORATUS, HEATHER LITTEER, CHARLENE CORAN (COLORADO), ST. EVE, BILLY O, POISON EVE, THE DIVINE GRACE, VELOCITY CHYALDD, BELLA LUNA, JONNY TINGLE, BROOKE MCMAHAN (FLORIDA), VANGELINE THEATER, DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA, MACHINE DAZZLE, PAIGE STEVENSON and AMBER RAY.
This year's new performers and ensembles are JULIE MYERS aka NEARLY NICKS (CANADA) who performs Stevie in varied venues from Las Vegas to Toronto, THE PEARL DANDY (UK) a British Asian singer-songwriter from East London, hometown Dragstar GUSTY WINDS and chanteuse ERICKATOURE AVIANCE. Also making her NOTS debut this year is the director/choreographer RACHEL KLEIN, who will create the opening number with her theater company RACHEL KLEIN PRODUCTIONS. Our all-Stevie, all-Fleetwood DJs are the much-loved CRAIG SPENCER and POISON EVE, with a set by NOTS co-producer JOHNNY DYNELL, who has created many of our special show mixes through the years.
Suggested Dress: Moon Goddess, Enchanted Eveningwear, Black Widow Spider Effects, Beribboned and Bedecked Tambourines, Wiccan Glamour, Wrapped in Velvet, Important Platform Boots, White Winged Dove After Midnight, Moonstones and Moon Motifs, Lindsey Or John McVie Pagan Menswear, Black Robes Trailing, Silver Threaded Shawls, Cloaks and Cokespoons or Your Personal Best Stevie Nicks Realness, All Eras.
WORKSHOP
New York Butoh workshop with Hiroko and Koichi Tamano
Hosted by Vangeline Theater
New York Butoh workshop with Hiroko and Koichi Tamano
Hosted by Vangeline Theater
June 24, 25, 26, 27
Hiroko and her husband Koichi Tamano had been disciples of Tatsumi Hijikata.
The Tamanos studied for over ten years with Hijikata who eventually sent them to the United States to bring Butoh to the West. In the late seventies, they settled in the San Francisco/Bay Area where they founded their dance company Harupin Ha, a name that Hijikata chose for them. They bought a big old house in Berkeley that served as living space, studio, crash pad for transitory guests, meeting hall, and dance floor. They started teaching people, and gradually turned into living legends — Japan’s emperor declared Koichi a national treasure, and in 2005 Hiroko and Koichi received the Isadora Duncan Award. They have performed throughout Japan, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. Their grandson must be around 15 by now, Koichi celebrated his 60th birthday a while ago, but their energy hasn’t diminished — they’re still performing and teaching.
Dates and information:
Thursday June 24 6-9pm
Friday June 25 6-9pm
Saturday June 26 1-6pm
Sunday June 27 2:15-7:30pm
Location:
Triskelion Arts Center, studio X
118 N. 11th St. 3rd Floor R
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.599.3577
Directions:
L train to Bedford Avenue
Workshop description:
BUTOH: Disaster cuts Daily Life , show us section of our life.
Butoh sward down on my body as an animate creature.
Let's enter on the path toward to a Journey to see yourself.
Practice 1: Erase yourself .
Smelling & Touching ~ Wind
Seed ~ Monster
Eyes ~ Mirror
Practice 2: Inner Cosmos ( Body is Deep & Far)
Step down into own body.
Practice 3: Become something.
With Sympathy, live the life of something.
Practice 4: Study Choreography of the piece "Swamp"
Prices and fees:
Single class ( Thursday or Friday):
$55 each/$110 for both classes
Saturday/Sunday both days $170/ or $85 each day.
Note: While preference will be given to students who can take four days, we understand that some students will only be able to take parts of the workshop.
Early bird discounts: (payment made in full by May 15th)
4 days: $250 instead of $280
2 classes (Thursday and Friday): $90 instead of $110
Week end (Saturday and Sunday) $150 instead of $170
Deposits and payments in full are non refundable
To secure your spot in the workshop you must pay 50% of your enrollment fee by May 30th, balance in full due by June 10th. Space is limited to 22 students.
For enrollment please contact:
Vangeline
E mail: vangelinetheater@yahoo.com
tel: 917 -749 9062