Butoh Master Workshop Series Hosted by Tangentz

Surrealism of the Flesh

With

Butoh Master Katsura-Kan

Katsura-Kan’s Master Workshop Series will take place at

the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii located at 2454 South Beretania St.

in the Kenshikan Dojo on the ground level.

WEDNESDAY: DECEMBER 7th, from 1-4pm

THURSDAY: DECEMBER 8th, from 1-4pm

FRIDAY: DECEMBER 9th, from 1-4pm

A VIDEO LECTURE on the ORIGINS OF BUTOH will be held

at The JCCH Historical Gallery Theater

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10th, from 4:30-6pm

(The Video Lecture is Free & Open to the Public. Space is limited)

The Workshop fee also includes an informal

WORKSHOP STUDENT PRESENTATION SUNDAY: DECEMBER 11thfrom 5-7pm

Early Registration: $35.00 per day & Late Registration/Drop-in: $50.00 per day.

(OPEN TO ALL! ALL LEVELS WELCOME! SPACE IS LIMITED)

For more information and to Pre-Register for Katsura-Kans Butoh Master Workshop Series please contact lori@butoh.net or for more information, click here..

Butoh is a contemporary avant-garde dance form which originated in Japan and which was first performed there in 1959. It combines dance, theater, improvisation and influences of Japanese traditional performing arts with German Expressionist dance (Neue Tanz) and performance art to create a unique performing art form that is both controversial and universal in its expression. It has evolved to become an international art form with artists and groups devoted to teaching and performing it in East and South-East Asia, North and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii.

Dance festivals have featured performances by Butoh artists since the 1960s, but more recently festivals have been held which are exclusively devoted to Butoh. For more information on what Butoh dance is, what its history is, who the people involved are and where it is being performed and taught, see the links above.

This site is sponsored by Tangentz Performance Group, a performing and teaching Butoh dance group based in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. For more information on Butoh, do a web search using a major web search engine such as google.com under the spelling butoh or buto. You may also visit the Butoh Net links above.

If you have comments, suggestions or information regarding a link to a butoh performer, or a listing for an upcoming class, workship or performance, can be submitted to dan [at] butoh [dot] net

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Photo of Katsura-Kan courtesy of Katsura-Kan