WORKSHOP/CLASS
Yoshito Ohno
COPENHAGEN
WORKSHOP
Nordic School Of Butoh
Workshop program for 2004:
Butoh workshops in Copenhagen, Denmark:
24.- 25. of April, butoh intro
5.- 6. of June, butoh workhops
6.- 7. of November
Price 120 euro, simpel lodging at the school 40 euro, bring your own sleeping
things.
BUTOH Summer camps at the west coast of Denmark
1.- 10. of August for new members &
12.- 22. of August for students, which have been at the Butoh workshops before.
It is possible to take both camps just after each others.
Price 360 euro for each camps, including lodging, at the fantastic Theater farm
direct out to the ocean. Registration before 1st of June, 2004
NORDIC SCHOOL OF BUTOH, 1 year - START AUGUST 2004- Copenhagen
Alternative education in dance, body and performance, based at thoughts and
methodes from the butoh dance.
1 year basic training, with the possibly to take 2 years qualifiding education.
START AUGUST 2004, Registration the latest 12th of June 2004.
NORDIC SCHOOL OF BUTOH
Dance, performance, art - exploring body, mind, spirit.
A new interesting alternative education in dance, body and performance begins
in Copenhagen 2004.
Nordic School of Butoh originates in thoughts and methods from the Japanese
butoh: An experimental powerful style of dance, uniting holistic knowledge with
new scenic avant-garde. The school brings together philosophy and technique
and gives a broad professionally qualified teaching which intergrades research,
method and knowledge of creative and executive work. The body is explored and
exposed as insistent and complex behind conventional aesthetic. Body, mind,
spirit and other well-known principles of three-dimensional training becomes
essential to the bodily work, dynamics and kinetics. The purpose is to give
understanding for a more authentic and intuitive language of movement, and investigate
a creative natural flow beyond the personal technical presents.
The individual student receives good and basic competences within the work of
body, dance and movement for scenic use or for other purposes as artists, creative
educator, teacher, therapist etc. Nordic School of Butoh is an alternative school
in continuation of the new tendencies. During the last 10 years butoh has inspired
contemporary dance and experimental performance, by breaking up with western
conception of the body as being fragmented and seperated from existence and
nature. “At present we see a fascination with the actual body of the dancer.
Physical as well as mental and metaphysical layers are opened – from organic
process to spiritual deep. Through the transparent of the body the ego of the
dancer takes us towards collective values of very universal and almost animalistic
kind.”
Anita Saij is Danish exponent for the school in Copenhagen. She has been practicing
through many years, in Japan and Chorea with the master Kazuo Ohno the bright
spiritual part of butoh to the founder Hizikatas darkness in Tanaka Min’s
tough school. She has integrated butoh in her own way through 20 years of highly
professional -and international reputable work as teacher, performer and choreographer.
In Denmark she founded the prized theater Dance Lab back to 1986 and here taught
and inspired many of the present talents like Kitt Johnson, Anders Christiansen,
Tim Feldtman, Bo Madvig.
Facts:
Nordic School of Butoh offers one year of basic training education with the
possibility for continue taking two years more up to a qualifying creative education.
The education has a part-time -and a full-time side, which offers different
demands of physical and psychological engagement. There is now audition, but
possibility to get an intro at the Butoh workshops in Copenhagen twice a year
in April and November- open for everyone. Every year intensive ocean-camps are
being held great nature places in respectively Denmark and Spain.
Registration to the education for start August is now, before 12. of May 2004
For registration and further information www.nordicbutoh.dk,
info@nordicbutoh.dk,
phone +45 2665 5605
PARIS
WORKSHOP
Juju Alishina
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
1) Regular classes / BUTOH
at the Centre de danse du Marais, 41, rue du Temple 75004 Paris (M° Hôtel
de ville)
every Thursday 8:30pm to 10:00pm - for all levels
Fee: 1 class / 16€ 20 classes / 200 €
1 year pass / 300 €
2) Regular classes / BUTOH
at the Gymnase des Lilas, 5, rue des Lilas 75019 Paris (M° Place des Fêtes)
every Saturday, 10:30am to 12:00am - for all levels
12:15am to 1:30pm - for experienced dancers
1st class trying will be FREE for new students.
Fee: 1 class / 16€ 20 classes / 200 €
1 year pass / 300 €
3) Traditional Japanese Dance
at the Gymnase des Lilas, 5, rue des Lilas 75019 Paris (M° Place des Fêtes)
every 3rd Saturday of the month, 12:15am to 1:30pm
Fee: 1 class / 16€ renting of a kimono : 1 time / 7 €
In its first stage of development (1990 - 97),
Juju Alishina's company included more than 36 dancers and 40
other staff members working on performances, exhibitions and dance workshops
in Japan and abroad. During the second stage (since 1998), Juju Alishina
moved her company to Paris and began a new chapter in her career surrounded
by her company of new dancers and musicians. Since then she has been developing
her own methods in Paris.
Information in English, French, Japanese
contact: dansenuba@9online.fr
http://dansenuba.9online.fr
PHOTO AND FILM EXHIBIT
Exhibit of Photos and Films of Tatsumi Hijikata
Institute for Cultural Foreign Relations
Christian Hauck
Journal for Cultural Exchange
http://www.ifa.de/galerien/butoh/eindex.htm
The dancer and writer Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) was the
central figure of the Japanese Avantgarde of the 1960s and 1970s. He not only
exercised an immense influence on Japanese modern dance and the country's under-ground
theatre angura, he was also the intellectual and creative artistic leader of
a circle of theatre people, writers, literary critics, musicians and fine artists.
Educated in modern and free dance, he broke radically with the western tra-dition
of modern dance, in 1959, and began to develop a genuinely Japanese form of
contemporary dance which he termed 'ankoku butoh'-'the dance of darkness'. Hijikata
turned away from almost every dance convention: he no longer saw the body of
the dancer as an abstract instrument, or tool, with which to achieve aesthetic
figures, but tried to bring out and show the deeper, darker, inaccessible layers
of emotion and expressive movement which shaped and have literally been embodied
in that body. His dance conjures up these unconscious 'tracks' by using techniques
which switch off, so to speak, the control of the conscious mind over the body.
Through this tracking process, his own body becomes impenetrable and obscure
even to the dancer himself.
Hijikata's 'rebellion of the flesh', perceived in Japan as a form of dance,
is akin to radical developments in the performing arts that took place in Europe
and North America around 1960, e.g. the 'Viennese actionism', in particular
of Günter Brus and the early happenings by Joseph Beuys in Europe, and
the performances of the 'Living Theater' in New York. 'Ankoku Butoh', however,
goes way beyond these similar movements in terms of radicality and austerity.
In recent years, the European public has been introduced to the traditional
Japanese forms of theatre, noh and kabuki, as well as the bunraku marionette
theatre (for example in 1998 at the exhibition 'Japan-Theatre of the World'
in the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich), but this exhibition organised by the Institut
für Auslandsbeziehungen is the first to give an insight into the Avantgarde
dance theatre of Japan and its relations with and unconscious differences from
the western Avantgarde dance.
The exhibits are fifty impressive black-and-white photographs of Hijikata's
performances, most of them unpublished. The exhibition also runs almost every
film documenting Tatsumi Hijikata's dance-from recordings of his own butoh performances
(he appeared on stage for the last time in 1973) and those of his early group
'Ankoku Butoh-ha' (1960 ˆ 1966), which he choreographed, to the shows of
the later groups 'Hangi Daito-kan' (1970 ˆ 1974) and 'Hakuto-bo' with the
leading female dancer Yoko Ashikawa (1974 ˆ 1986). Except for brief sequences,
these films have so far not been distributed, and none of them has been shown
outside Japan.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a 64-page catalogue, richly illustrated
in black and white, with two texts by Tatsumi Hijikata and an essay by curator
Johannes Meinhardt, PhD.
ifa-gallery Stuttgart
January 30 ˆ March 20, 2004
Opening: Thursday, January 29, 2004, 6 p.m.
ifa-gallery Bonn
April 7 ˆ May 23, 2004
Opening: Tuesday, April 6, 2004, 8 p.m.
ifa-gallery Berlin
June 11 ˆ August 15, 2004
Opening: Thursday, June 10, 2004, 7 p.m.
lenz@ifa.de
BROELLIN
WORKSHOP
Yumiko Yoshioka
Intensive Workshop (1)
Body Resonance, based on Butoh and Organic Movements
Place: Schloss Broellin (International Art Research Location, situated in Northeast
Germany, 2 hours from Berlin)
Dates: August 13-22 (the arrival on Aug.12, the departure on Aug 23)
Price: 500 Euro (student)/ 550 Euro (general) , including lodging and boarding.
(please bring a sleeping bag)
Everyday 4-6 hours of body training (half in the morning, half in the afternoon)
with open air class according to the weather, but most times are in the studio.
Content: Noguchi Gymnastics and Chi training (for the relaxation), dynamic trainings
for the energy flow, structured improvisation, combination of image and body
(Butoh related works), choreography etc.
In the end, we may do a short presentation in public, but the main focus is
to research our body and enjoy the process of metamorphosis.
Prescribed number: 20 persons (open for everybody in good health.)
Registration deadline: July 15
(2) TEN PEN CHii
Interdisciplinary Work Project
Place: Schloss Broellin and neighborhood
Dates: July 8 - August 7 (the arrival on July 7, the departure on Aug 8)
Price: 800 Euro (student)/ 900 Euro (general), including lodging and boarding
(please bring a sleeping bag)
Everyday, there are 3-4 hours of workshops of dance /sculpture (visual art)
Additionally, participants are expected to help the construction of the sculpture,
furniture, studio, and house for 3-4 hours as part of the "cost" of
the workshop (the normal cost of a workshop is 1600 Euro). We are planning to
construct our own art center. The main focus of this work project is to learn
the process of creation in addition to training body and hand skills. We cook
togehter, so a good cook is welcome!
Prescribed number: 10 persons (open for everybody with tough body and soft mind.)
Deadline for the registration : June 15
Contact and Information (for
both workshops):
Yumiko Yoshioka
TEN PEN CHii art labor
c/o Schloss Broellin, 17309 Broellin, Germany
cellular phone +49-171-747-5051
fax : +49 -39747-50-301
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/butoh/itto/yumiko.htm
email : yumiko-mizelle@gmx.de
Future performance and workshops
to come:
June 9 i-ki performance in Hagen (Germany)
June workshop in London,
June one week in Japan
July 8 - August 7 TEN PEN CHii interdesciprinary workshop for one month
July 3 and July 30 TEST LABOR Z.0009 in Goerlitz and near Stuttgart
August 13- 22 Yumiko's 10 days intensive workshop in Broellin
September Pro Existence Project in Broellin (Yumiko as a co-ordinator)
October workshop and performance in South Corea, Poland(Krakow)
November new production
December workshop in Berlin and Budapest
GREVENBROICH
WORKSHOP
Butoh Tanz und Zen Meditation im
Nikolaus Kloster bei Grevenbroich mit Sabine Seume und dem
Zen Mönch Zan Shin Walter
11.-18.9.04, Beginn Sa 14 Uhr, Ende Sa 15 Uhr
In der reizvollen Atmosphäre und Umgebung des Nikolaus Klosters in die
Weisheit der Stille eintauchen. Die Stille des Zen und den lebendigen Bewegungsfluss
des Butoh Tanzes erleben. Gegensätze die sich verbinden und neue Wahrnehmungen
erschließen. Wenn es die Witterung zulässt wird im Freien getanzt.
Info und Anmeldung: Sabine Seume, Tel./Fax: 0211/788 34 45,
Sabine-Seume@t-online.de,
www.Sabine-Seume.de
320,-/350,- € ohne Unterkunft und Verpflegung, auf Wunsch mit VP und/oder
preiswerter Übernachtung im Kloster.
Butoh Tanz und Zen Meditation im
Nikolaus Kloster bei Grevenbroich mit Sabine Seume und dem
Zen Mönch Zan Shin Walter
31.3.-3.4.05, Beginn Do 14 Uhr, Ende So 15 Uhr
Info und Anmeldung: Sabine Seume, Tel./Fax: 0211/788 34 45,
Sabine-Seume@t-online.de, www.Sabine-Seume.de <http://www.sabine-seume.de/>
220,-/200,-€ ohne Unterkunft und Verpflegung, auf Wunsch mit VP und/oder
preiswerter Übernachtung im Kloster.
WORKSHOP
Sabine Seume
3.-5.9.04
8.-10.10.04
TUT, Schule für Tanz, Clown & Theater,
Kornstr. 31, 30167 Hannover, Tel.: 0511/32 06 80, Fax: 0511/32 06 81
butoh@tut-hannover.de, www.tut-hannover.de,
Kursgebühren bitte beim TUT erfragen
Für das Jahr 2004/2005 ist eine Performance Fortbildung geplant.Aufführungen
WORKSHOP
Butoh Tanz mit Sabine Seume
13./14.11.04 RAST e.V. Köln
Sa 11-18 Uhr, So 11-16 Uhr, Kurfürstenstr. 18, 50678 Köln, Tel.: 0221/32
34 82, Fax: 0221/32 48 89, info@rast-koeln.de,
www.rast-koeln.de
Kursgebühr 65,- €
Butoh Tanz mit Sabine Seume
5./6.3.05 RAST e.V. Köln
Sa 11-18 Uhr, So 11-16 Uhr, Kurfürstenstr. 18, 50678 Köln, Tel.: 0221/32
34 82, Fax: 0221/32 48 89, info@rast-koeln.de,
www.rast-koeln.de
Kursgebühr 65,- €
MÜHLTAI (BEI DARMSTADT)
AUFFÜHRUNGEN
Sabine Seume
9.9.04 20 Uhr GötterSpeise, Solo, Wacker Theatertage, Wacker Galerie, Ober-Ramstädter-Str.
96, 64067 Mühltal (bei Darmstadt), Tel.: 06151/14 67 25, Fax: 06151/14
53 26
Für die aktuellen Termine bitte unter www.Sabine-Seume
nachsehen.
UPPSALA
PERFORMANCE
SU-EN Butoh Company
THE SCRAP PROJECT
Date for rehearsals and performance: Aug 10-15
Place: Uppsala scrapyard
Cost: no fee, participants organize/pay their own accomodation/food in Uppsala
Info: 10 participants will be accepted to this project, separate application
form. The group will be choreographed to take part in a spectacular performance
at the scrapyard, along with SU-EN, workers at the scrapyard and invited guest
artists.
The SU-EN butoh method aims at constructing a dancing body in the artistic context
and developing choreographic tools for stage performance. Through the discipline
of the body and mind, new possibilities are found.
Haglund Skola is situated in the forest 30 km from Uppsala and 1,5 hours from
Stockholm by car or bus.
More information and how to apply by e-mail only: suenworkshop@hotmail.com
http://come.to/suen.web
BERKELEY
WORKSHOP
butoh at home… is a workshop series in butoh and related
movement training encouraging regular practice, training and creative work in
this form in the bay area. This season there are four six-class workshops with
bay area butoh performers. All classes are on TUESDAYS -- 8:15pm to 10:15pm
at TEMESCAL ARTS -- 511 48th St @ Telegraph in Oakland. (MacArthur BART). Please
join us for one or all. Workshops are open to all levels. PRE-REGISTRATION Deeply
Encouraged one week prior to workshop (see below). **Note** Temescal is simultaneously
presenting a Contact Improvisation Series and a Theater/Voice Series. www.temescalartscenter.org
PAIGE SORVILLO: butoh choreography lab w/ performance
Deep physical sensations bring us into center, into memory, into unknowns….
into this everyday shining world and into the darkness/light breathing beneath.
Paige’s teaching is influenced by butoh teachers Shinichi Koga,
Yumiko Yoshioka, SU-EN and Minako
Seki among many others as well as by Ruth Zaporah’s Action
Theater. She has performed with inkBoat, Degenerate
Art Ensemble, Tanya Calamoneri and Kinji Hayashi.
Our first classes will focus on basic training for the butoh body. Gradually
we will work on improvisations that focus on awareness, imagery and performance
architecture. In small groups we will create and give feedback on short pieces
for the performance. Participants will be expected to find some outside time
to rehearse.
Tuesdays 8:15 to 10:15 pm 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/27, 6/29, & 7/6
SHINICHI MOMO KOGA: Disciplines for the Open Body
This Butoh Dance technique, imagery and improvisation workshop taught by Shinichi
MOMO Koga will provide awareness practices to hone internal sensibilities
and physical expression. We will work with physical/psychological risk and embodied
images to redraw the body map using Butoh (Hijikata lineage) and Physical Theater
methods. Develop relaxation, sensitivity and dynamism within your body; a cabinet
with many drawers. The disciplines open hidden drawers, allowing you to taste
your buried self. Though sub-conscious impulses lead the dance, consciousness
remains aware and responsive. While experiencing internal development, expect
to feel your legs.
Tuesdays 8:15 to 10:15 pm 7/20, 7/27, 8/3, 8/10, 8/17 & 8/24
Costs for either of the above workshops: $85 for one six-class workshop, $155
for two, $210 for three, $280 for four
drop-ins and partial series by arrangement.
To Register: Please MAIL Check or Money Order made out to TEMESCAL ARTS CENTER
along with your name, address, telephone, email, workshops you would like to
take to Paige Sorvillo, 1801 Fairview St., Berkeley, CA 94703
Questions: Paige Sorvillo, 510 601 7494,paigesorvillo@mindspring.com
www.temescalartscenter.org
HOLLYWOOD
WORKSHOP
As the U.S. continues its war :
muzak & soundbites tells us to sleep to ignore earths' cries for help
We must resist using our hearts & bodies to stop this madness of empire.
Join us in movement to end the occupation and for future peace...
Corpus Delicti, butoh performance lab, invites you to our weekly workshop of
butoh movement & awareness.
We meet on Saturdays from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. It's FREE and open to all.
Bronson Canyon Park in Hollywood (see directions below)
Our workshop introduces butoh through a series of breath & movement exercises.
We focus the class on discovering and nurturing an ancient energy within oneself
that connects to a larger group dynamic. The first 15 minutes will be stretching,
moving into slow, meditative movement that eventually develops into a larger
group interaction.
If you have witnessed Corpus Delicti performances at Anti-War rallies or in
a theater/gallery space, you may have come into contact with the power of this
expression. Please visit our website for more information at
http://www.corpusbutoh.org
Contact us to rsvp for the workshop at corpusdance@interactivejungle.com
In Love and Resistance,
Carla & Joe, co-directors
Corpus Delicti
We transform the spirit of resistance to Butoh dance/theater as it brings forth
the "body of evidence" for crimes against the peoples of the earth.
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WORKSHOP DETAILS
Every Saturday from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Bronson Canyon Park in Hollywood
directions: Canyon Drive is located North of Franklin Ave,
between Bronson & Van Ness
101 Northbound exit Gower, head north to Franklin, make right on Franklin
101 Southbound exit Vine, head north to Franklin, make right on Franklin
Please Bring Loose Clothing, Enough Water and an Open Mind...
Yahoo Map for directions (copy & paste complete url)
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BUTOH and PROTEST
We will use the avant garde dance form of Butoh to express our common intent.
Butoh was created as a latent response to post-war anxiety and reconstruction
in Japan during the late 1950's, an anxiety that peaked in 1959 when the U.S.
Japan Mutual Defense Treaty (which allowed Americans to maintain military bases
in Japan) was renewed despite intense protest.
"Our view was that imperialism, the Vietnam War, and other distortions
and atrocities of our century had resulted from the pervasive and dehumanizing
power of modernity. Modernity had to be transcended in order to effectively
address the political issues of our time. Powerless to directly influence the
course of events – to block renewal of the Security Treaty or end the
war in Vietnam, for instance – the best alternative was to create a politically
effective kind of theatre capable of transcending the modern."
David Goodman, creator of the avant-garde theatre magazine Concerned Theatre
Japan
Butoh's main founder, Tatsumi Hijikata (1928 –1986) transformed this discontentment
into an artistic form that addressed intense alienation and personal liberation
while subverting both Japanese and Western dance traditions. By allowing the
subconscious to speak through the body, the "dance of darkness" became
a way of re-connecting to nature and its cycles in the midst of the frenetic
speed of modernization. Butoh's aesthetic evokes a primal, mythological presence
- conjuring a story that incorporates both ancient & contemporary sensibilities.
The effect is often a poetic assault of the senses as well as soothing awareness
which comes from shedding off layers of conditioning.
"The reason that we suffer from anxiety is that we are unable to live with
our fears. Anxiety is something created by adults. The dancer, through the butoh
spirit, confronts the origins of his fears; a dance which crawls towards the
bowels of the earth."
Hijikata Tatsumi (quoted in Viala and Masson-Sekine)
The confrontational, yet poetic and non-violent, nature of the form loans itself
to issues of injustice and oppression. As our work in street performances, theatre,
and installations attest, the result can be a powerful experience for the viewer.
SAN FRANCISCO
PERFORMANCE
Shinichi
MOMO Koga
August
5-14, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
(mobile) +49.162.38.333.97
VENICE
CLASS
Body Weather Laboratory Training
Conducted by Oguri, Jamie Burris and Roxanne Steinberg
Wednesdays 10:00 - 13:00
Sundays 13:00 - 16:00
The Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Avenue, Venice
$15 for a single training
$45 for four (paid in advance)
$80 for one month (paid in advance)
Body Weather Laboratory is a research forum open to anyone interested in investigating
expression through the body within different environments. A demanding
attitude toward a thorough reexamination of the body and movement is a main
theme in the training. Originally founded in 1978 by Min Tanaka in Japan,
BWL workshops currently exist throughout the world, expanding and reinterpreting
the format for exploration.
The training consists of three-parts:
1) rigorous mind/body, muscle/bone training; rhythmical and dynamic.
2) a series of specific stretching and relaxation exercises concerned
with breathing and alignment.
The work is done in couples, exchanging passive
and active roles.
3) sensitivity and awareness training to sharpen focus and develop the
scope of understanding through
the body; discovery of movement from
images.
Oguri also conducts workshops and intensives incorporating nature and wilderness.
Training is an integral part of the development of the group and serves to introduce
the work to newcomers.
For more information call Jamie Burris 323-848-8812. Email: oguribwl@earthlink.net
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. (across from Star Market)
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, 6:30-8:30 PM Beginning August 15, 2004. $30/month (4 classes)
or $15/class.
CONTACT: Tangentz at (808) 387-4861 for more information. Or email at tangentz
at butoh dot net
PERFORMANCE
Meifu (The Other World)
Tangentz
Performance Group
August 13, 2004 6:00PM
At the opening reception for the art show Spirit of the Dead Watching.
Opening reception 5-10PM
Admission is FREE
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii Courtyard, 2425
South Beretania St. (across from Star Market)
Meifu refers to Buddist
scripture's description of the site where souls of the recently departed go
to repose in the afterlife. Spirit of the Dead Watching is all about
art that celebrates the Obon (Lantern Festival) season, where offerings of flowers,
food and incense light the way for the return of ancestral spirits during this
time of the year.
NEW
YORK
NEW
YORK CITY
CLASS
BUTOH
class with Corinna Hiller
Ongoing Saturdays
4-5:30 PM
$15 per class 10 class card for $120
at White Wave
Performance and Rehearsal Space in DUMBO
25 Jay Street
Take F train to York St. walk down Jay Street to waterfront,
make a right on John St., (entrance is on John Street)
email: CorinnaH@mindspring.com
for more info or call 917-753-8163
This class will bring the participant into a new experience of moving.
You will be guided through Butoh warm ups, imagery exercises, and structured
improvisations. Hijikata's imagery will be emphasized which requires the
participant to transform into inanimate objects and elements of the natural
or spiritual world, e.g. smoke, fire, water, stone, corpse, demons, ghosts,
ash, light, darkness. You will be asked "to be" images and not just represent
them via movement as "Butoh is the body". You will embody the image and
transform into them rather than trying to dance them as is usually done in Western
forms of dance.
Corinna has been teaching Butoh for 3 years and performing is since 1996
when she toured Japan with Koichi Tamano's Harupin Ha and co founded The Dean
Street FOO.
CLASS
Introduction to Butoh
taught by Tanya Calamoneri (inkBoat)
THURSDAYS ongoing
8-10 PM $15
student discount and
class cards available
New York Dance Affinity
447 Broadway 5th Floor
bt. Howard & Grand in SOHO
(Canal Street Station)
www.nyda.org or www.inkboat.com
INFO: 718.207.3307
Collapse/Disintegrate/Flail/Rage at will and recover with grace.
This class guides you to develop command of your central axis. Bridging Contemporary
Western Dance and Japanese Butoh movement techniques, exercises focus on economy
of movement, exploding to the edges, and imagination. We will work in duet and
ensemble relationships to develop awareness and expand our choices. Each class
will include improvisational exploration to allow students to incorporate the
teaching with their own dance.
Tanya Calamoneri is a performer, choreographer and teacher who works in the
areas of contemporary dance, Japanese butoh, contact improvisation and yoga.
She is a member of the internationally-recognized performance group inkBoat,
under the direction of Shinichi Momo Koga. She has also studied Butoh under
Ko Murobushi, Carlotta Ikeda, Minako Seki, Yuko Kaseki and Su-En. Based in San
Francisco for the past 8 years, she performed with Kim Epifano’s Epiphany
Productions, was a member of the performance troupe violent dwarf, and was a
founding faculty member of the Experimental Performance Institute at New College
of CA. She is currently attending NYU’s Gallatin School, pursuing her
MA in Japanese Performance and Physical Theater. www.inkboat.com
for more info.
Spirit Dance, Butoh
Teacher: Kathi Von Koerber
"The truth of performance simulates breath, the reflex to live"
with live music
classes every Wednesday 4pm-6pm
Infinity Dance Space
447 Broadway
for more information call (212) 726-2119
www.resonant-wave.net/kvk.htm
CLASS
Fundamentals
of Movement for Butoh Dance Theater
Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, USA.
4 credits
Faculty :Doranne Crable, Phone:
360-867-6085
Thursdays, 4:30-7:00 PM
Enrollment : 14
Special Expenses : $15 for make-up and costume cleaning
CRN : 10194
This course will be devoted to beginning techniques of movement for dance in
general and for Butoh, specifically. This course will be a prerequisite for
winter and spring Butoh classes.
(This is the first of three levels of classes each of which last one quarter)
http://www.evergreen.edu/eveningandweekend/exp03.htm#fundamentals
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