A monthly burrito/lecture/performance series. This is an opportunity for our community to gather for a meal and a night of interesting performance/discussion. Burritos and Butoh dance Date: Saturday, Oct.6 Time: 7:00 (food is served) 8:00 (program begins) Price: Free (donate if you wish) This month's show: The program for Saturday the 6th will feature Takami, a Bay Area Butoh dancer. She will perform a segment for "Prism 2", which premiered in Tokyo Summer 2001, and will be performed at the Yugen/Noh space in October. (read bio below) In addition, writer Robert Jarrell will speak about Butoh dance and its relationship to underground Japanese culture. Robert is currently working on a collection of essays dealing with underground Japanese culture.  (read bio below). Please R.S.V.P. so we know how much food to get. Feel free to bring friends but please let us know how many people you will bring. We can only have about 40 people in the space. Takami is an independent choreographer who was born and raised in Japan. She received her BA in Modern Dance at Nihon University College of Art. Since 1985 she has been performing original work in the United States and Japan. Since moving to San Francisco, Takami has collaborated with other Bay Area artists at venues including Dancer’s Group, ODC Performance Gallery, Cowell Theater, and performed with butoh pioneer Akira Kasai as part of the San Francisco Butoh Festival at Yerba Buena Garden Center for the Arts. She was a cofounder of D-Net (dance network), and artists cooperative. Through D-Net, Takami has coproduced workshops for independent choreographers and performers, including D-Net’s San Francisco Butoh Festival. In 1999 Takami started an ongoing project "MOBU Dance with Life" and will start a new butoh group Tomei (Clear Colors) this Autumn. She has been invited by Setsuko Yamada at Biwakei Studio in Tokyo to perform and lead butoh workshops. 2001 marked Takami’s third year to perform solo in Tokyo, Japan.  Robert Jarrell is a visual artist, graphic designer, and writer, as well as editor and creative director for HeadLight Journal (http://www.headlightjournal.com), an alternative literary arts online publication. In 2002 he is publishing a collection of essays about underground Japanese culture. He has focussed a large part of the publication on butoh, the avant-garde Japanese dance genre, and has interviewed some of the world’s leading butoh dancers including Katsura Kan, Zulu of the Yan-Shu group, and Takami. He will be traveling to Japan this October to interview Akiko Hajikata, the wife of Tatsumi Hajikata (the founder of butoh), and Setsuko Yamada. He will discuss the history of butoh and its contemporary expressions.