ArtandPolitics NYC Butoh Gallery
Upcoming NYC Workshops/Performances:
2nd New York International Butoh Festival
October 2005
Workshops and Performances
Produced by The Cave cavegallery.org/
Theater for the New City, 1st Ave, between East 9/10th St.
nybutohfestival.org
Images: NYC Butoh-Inspired Performances 2001-2003
Vangeline Theatre Presents: D.R.E.A.M.S. a plastic dance
tue-wed 22-23 apr 8:30p 2003
butoh inspired dance meets a nebulous plastic future
7 dancers: Kat McMillan * Ahako Sana * Katherine Master *Sarah Mccoollum * Denver Latimer * Julie Kulakova * Vangeline
choreographed by Vangeline
music: Massive Attack, Adam Fisher and Mr. Dorgon
costumes: Hector Perez and Vangeline
based on Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams"
special cello performance by Adam Fisher
Clemente Soto Velez 107 Suffolk St btw Delancey/Rivington F,J,M,Z
Invite: http://artandpolitics.com/images/vangeline.jpg
Vangeline and Simone sun dec 22 2002
Love? a butoh inspired piece
Kathi & Tonya
Earth Celebrations Winter Pagaent 2002
photos by paul bartlett, artandpolitics.com/gallery/
Atsushi Takenouchi with NYC Ensemble
La Plaza Cultural Garden, Loisaida July 15, 2001
photos by Paul Bartlett, artandpolitics
Atsushi Takenouchi (Kyoto, Japan)
Butoh Performance at the Cave, Williamsburg July 13, 2001
photos by Paul Bartlett, artandpolitics
Zack Fuller (Catskills, New York)
Butoh Performance at the Cave, Williamsburg July 13, 2001
photos by Paul Bartlett, artandpolitics
Joan Laage (Seattle, Washington)
Butoh Performance at BPM, Williambsburg, Brooklyn Oct 18, 2001
photos by artandpolitics.com
Joan Laage's Butoh in Seattle
http://www.seattlebutoh.org/
Other Past NYC Butoh Events:
2003
[For Butoh Performances 2004-2005 see The Cave cavegallery.org/ ]
These events are listed for historical purposes. It will be edited down to the essentials in the near future.
1st New York Butoh Festival
sat-sun 11-19 oct 2003
Featuring Established and Emerging Butoh Dancers
from Japan, Sweden, Seattle, San Francisco and NY
Yukio Waguri * Joan Laage * SU-EN
Workshops and Performances in Manhattan and Brooklyn
Presented by the CAVE
http://www.nybutohfestival.org/
25 jul 8p $10/8 students 2003
Butoh Duet between Atsushi Takenouchi and Kathi von Koerber
musician Hiroko Komiya and special guests
ATMANANDA YOGA STUDIO. at 8:00
Reservations 212 726 2119
26 jul 8p $10/8 students 2003
Atsushi Takenouchi Butoh Solo
music by Hiroko Komiya
Cave Gallery 58 Grand St Williamsburg
http://www.cavegallery.com/
sat 10 aug 7:30p doors $5 suggested donation 2002
Shige Moriya & kaesha KvK present
8p "Un Bel Morir" performance by Juan Merchan
8:30p performance by Anika Tromholt Kristensen
Electronic Fretless Guitar by Kenta Nagai
9p RISE Atsushi Takenouchi and Kaesha Kathi Duet
Music by Hiroko Komiya
Atsushi Takenouchi http://artandpolitics.com/butoh
Kaesha Kathi is a butoh perfomer and a member of Ransom Corp.
The Cave 58 Grand St Williamsburg
http://www.cavegallery.com
sun 11 aug 4p 2002 FREE (2nd show in williamsburg - see below)
LAHKAPAJ - Adirondack Butoh Workshop Performance
Performers:
Atsushi Takenouchi *
Lamia Akar *
Laura Melling *
Angela Wendt *
Ann Lee *
Paul Bartlett *
Aurora * Kaesha KvK
Created by Atsushi Takenouchi
Music by Hiroko Komiya and Juan Naum
La Plaza Garden Cultural (9th St and Ave C)
sun 11 aug 7p 2002 FREE (1st show in East Village - see above)
LAHKAPAJ - Adirondack Butoh Workshop Performance
Performers: Atsushi Takenouchi * Lamia Akar * Laura Melling * Angela Wendt * Ann Lee *
Paul Bartlett *
Aurora * Kaesha KvK
Created by Atsushi Takenouchi
Music by Hiroko Komiya and Juan Naum
Small Waterfront Park Grand St. and the East River, Williamsburg
sun 11 aug 8:30p/9p 2002 (follows 7p workshop performance a couple of blocks away)
$5 suggested donation
Shige Moriya & kaesha KvK present
8:30p Boaz Barkan - Common
Acoustic Fretless Guitar by Kenta Nagai
9p Atsushi Takenouchi - Jinen [Spirit Dancer] Solo Performance
Music by Hiroko Komiya
The Cave 58 Grand St Williamsburg
http://www.cavegallery.com
sat 17 aug 4p & 8p 2002 $8 students / members, 10$ for adults
Atsushi Takenouchi
Solo Improvisation Jinen [Butoh Spirit Dancer]
Music by Hiroko Komiya
TENRI Cultural Institute 43A West 13th Street Manhattan
19,21-23 nov 7:30p 24 nov 3p 2002 $50,35,20
Sankai Juku: Hibiki (Resonance from Far Away)
Music by Takashi Kako and Yoichiro Yoshikawa
BAM 30 Lafayette Ave btw Ashland Pl and St. Felix St
http://www.bam.org/asp/performance.asp?perfID=SankaiJuku"
PAST NYC 2002-2003 Butoh Workshops
These are up for historical purposes, they will be edited and archived in the near future.
Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko
Komiya
Spirit Butoh Dance
Workshop 2003 in the Adirondacks
june 26-july 7 $250 a session or $400 combined (advanced purchase) $50 deposit by May 15. $10 for food per day.
Session 1 elements: arrivals on the 26th...June 27 - July 1: 5 days for beginners, less experienced or first-time Atsushi students $250.
Session 2 advanced: arrivals on the 1st...July 2 - 6: 5 days for advanced extensive prior experience or mandatory first week
Info: http://www.resonant-wave.net/butohworkshop
kaesha kathi kathilip@hotmail.com
Diego Piñón Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Workshop
New York City 12-19 july 2003
sat-sun 12-13 july NYC sat 10a-5p sun 12:30p-7:30p $210 2003
Diego Piñón Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Workshop
*non-refundable deposit of $75 due by May 1
Balance, or at least a total of $150, by June 1.
http://www.diegopinon.com/calendar.html
tue-sat 15-19 july NYC 10a-5p $525 2003
Diego Piñón Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Workshop
5 day advanced intensive workshop*
*Previous study with Diego required
http://www.diegopinon.com/calendar.html
July 22, 1-4pm July 23, 1-4pm July 24, 1-5pm
Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya
$130 for all sessions, $50 per session July 22 & 23, $60 per session July 24.
Atmananda Yoga Studio in SoHo 552 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10012 (between Prince and Spring Streets)
Reservations and $50 deposit required by July 10. Please contact Kathi at
212-726-2119
Send check or money order to: Kathi von Koerber 103 Essex Street, Apt. 2F New York, NY 10002
BUTOH & BEYOND Workshops with Jeff Janisheski
tuesdays/wednsdays June 18 - July 30 6-8p 2003
BUTOH & BEYOND Workshops with Jeff Janisheski
(No prior dance or theatre experience necessary)
a fusion of the ancient and the avant-garde. These
workshops offer intensive training in both Butoh (Japan's revolutionary
contemporary dance) and Noh (Japan’s traditional, ritualistic theatre
RES/INFO: Jeff @ 646-456-0547 jjanisheski@hotmail.com
Send deposit to: Jeff Janisheski, 229 Kane Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Backroom Studio in BATTERY DANCE STUDIOS: 380 Broadway, 5th
Floor
(On the corner of White Street, 3 blocks south of Canal Street);
DIRECTIONS: Take the 1/9 Subway to the Franklin Street exit; or the
A/C/E/N/R/J/M or 6 to Canal Street.
Shinichi Momo Koga and Yuko Kaseki
fri-sun 2-4 may 2003 (18 hours) Cost:$250 $150 deposit due 15 april
BUTOH DANCE WORKSHOP
Battery Dance 380 Broadway NYC (corner of Broadway and White)
NO walk in registration!
checks payable to:
Juan Merchan
And send it to:P.O. BOX 20635 NY.NY 10009
caveacts@cavegallery.com clandestinogroup@hotmail.com
The Koga/Kaseki workshop provides awareness practice
to hone internal sensibilities and physical _expression.
We work with physical risk, image, bodies in motion and
stillness to redraw the body map. Basic training:
o Noguchi gymnastics (water element) develops the relaxed,
sensitive but dynamic body. Find the center of the body through
the connection of earth to sky.
o Butoh Dance (Hijikata lineage) exercises passed through
Anzu Furukawa and Hiroko Tamano to dance internal landscapes.
o Tadashi Suzuki method of training for actors to develop the
sharp and precise body.
Your body is the cabinet with many drawers.
Taste your memory of body sensation and find new drawers.
Shinichi Momo Koga is a body theatre practitioner whose productions, both solo and ensemble,
have been causing international havoc since 1988. He is the Artistic Director of inkBoat.
Koga restructures dance, theater and film forms, extracting the vital essence of each.
As a teacher, performer, and director, he inhabits the shadow self and swims the collision
between modern life and primal being. A Hijikata lineage Butoh dance disciple
(through Hiroko Tamano), Koga challenges himself and others to
rage storms in blue skies and dream in turbulent seas.
Koga has worked extensively with Yumiko Yoshioka and TEN PEN Chii (Germany),
Larry Reed's Shadowlight Theater (USA), Koichi Tamano's Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre (USA)
and with Materia Prima (France), Minako Seki (Germany) and Do Teatr (Russia).
Yuko Kaseki lives and works as a free dancer, choreographer and teacher in Berlin (1995-present).
She studied Butoh dance with Anzu Furukawa since 1989 and danced in Anzu's company
Dance Butter Tokio and Verwandlungsamt in Germany, Finnland, Holland, USA). Kaseki founded
the dance company Devilangelo with Marc Ates and organized training and performances in their
studio loplop (1997-2000). She has been involved in various projects with musicians and artists
from France, Italy, Japan, Germany, Denmark, USA.
Intensive solo works (Tooboe, Kudan, Toquage) and her ensemble works ( Haru Yayoi chan Kou, Invisible Real)
in Europe. As part of inkBoat, Kaseki has danced and choreographed in works such as Cockroach and Onion.
The Ransom Corp. and 23 Windows present:
Atsushi Takenouchi - Jinen Butoh (Spirit Dancer)
with the musician Hiroko Komiya
sat-sun 27 july- 4 aug (1 week)
Butoh Nature Performance Workshop
Adirondack Mountains
wed-fri 14-16 aug
3 day NYC Intensive Butoh Workshop
Atsushi Takenouchi - Jinen Butoh (Spirit Dancer)
with the musician Hiroko Komiya
wed 14th 2-5p
thur 15th 2-5p
fri 16th 10a-12p & 2-5p
Entire Workshop: $100 ($50 deposit required)
Single Session: $35 (Friday double session $45)
Organized by The Ransom Corp. and 23 Windows
Contact: Kathi von Koerber 212 726 2119 kathilip@hotmail.com
TENRI Cultural Institute 43A West 13th Street Manhattan
He dances at his limitation.
The creation of the universe has just begun.
Please show us a dance of life with dancing at your best.
-Kazuo Ohno
I feel we have forgotten memories of days when we lived connected with nature¹s gift (such as water, wind, grass, trees, and animals). A long time ago we danced, forgetting days and nights. We forget ourselves, and became just as one life, with the earth. What about now? We¹ve been choreographed to fit into given pattern.
--Improvisation--
It¹s a dance without choreography. You dance as you feel, sharpening your senses, with conviction. You can¹t improvise unless you can enjoy what you are doing and act alive. Sometimes we may look like two dragons, or two jellyfish talking with each other, the moon and the sun, or two dancing cranes in love. We all have the blood of a native and spiritual dancer.
-A. Takenouchi
http://www.resonant-wave.net/atsushi_intro.htm
The Workshop
After last year¹s success, Atsushi Takenouchi returns to New York with the musician Hiroko Komiya to teach an intensive workshop. The workshop demonstrates simple and primitive ways of communication exploring transformitive states of the body. Atsushi teaches dancers how to connect to their organic history, guiding participants through genetic memories and allowing them to teach themselves the dance of their molecular ancestry (the dance of the seaweed, of the fox, the of the stone ectÅ ) His teaching start with the breath and first movements of life, and leads to universal interconnected awareness by focusing on dancing in the now, at your threshold.
There will be morning and afternoon classes held in site-specific nature settings (inside rivers, on sand dunes, mountain sides and forest landscapes)
The Camp The Adirondacks is an area designated to wildlife conservation, and incorporates over 1600 lakes, rivers and many wild animals. The workshop is in an old style camp tucked in the forest of the Adirondacks on the bank of lake Rondaxe.
It¹s located one hour northwest from Utica, outside of the village Old Forge. It takes approximately 5 hours by car from NYC.
Camping and indoors sleeping are available (as you choose)
15 Participants welcome, sign up by July 17th.
All camp facilities are open for use to all participants (wind surfers, canoes, ect.)
$300 workshop fee (plus $10/ day for food)
Dancers, body performers, artists, and all varieties of creative people are welcome to participate in this intensive workshop.
Contact:
Kathi von Koerber
212 726 2119
kathilip@hotmail.com
http://www.resonant-wave.net/kvk.htm
*Also note that Atsushi will be performing in New York City August 9th - August 18th. Dates, Locations and Times to be announced - respond to this email and we will send you a complete list
Butoh & Beyond w/Jeff Janisheski
CLASSES TBA
RES/INFO: 646-456-0547 (Jeff)
 |  | "As human beings used the energy of nature to survive, they created the first primitive forms of movement. In the Butoh dance we relive the sense of these primitive forms as a way to rescue all the lost parts of the human being. Butoh challenges us to empty our ordinary judgements, expectations, habitual actions and needs, to allow the emergence of a deeper self, propelling us to awaken and explore all human qualities, both subtle and outrageous, beautiful and ugly, to touch, if only for a moment, our inexplicable matter - the human soul. Through this process we can transform our dance and our daily life, to offer more creative energy to our community." Diego Piñón |
Diego Piñón Butoh Workshop Santa Fe, San Diego and New York City
http://www.diegopinon.com/calendar.html
New York City:
sat-sun oct 19-20 10a-5p JUST ADDED! $140
Open to all butoh students
(warning: be prepared to take emotional and physical risks)
mon-fri oct 21-25 5 day 32 1/2 hour *intensive* workshop $325
FULL - Waiting List Only
*For students with experience with Diego Piñón
Intermediate Butoh - Very High Physical Level
Continued pushing of physical limits
$50 deposit due: 9/10/02
Tentative Schedule
Mon: 9:30a-3:30p
Tue: 1p-7:30 p
Wed: 10a-4:30 p
Thu: 12p-6:30 p
Fri: 10a-5p
RSVP Zachary at zmodz@aol.com
Battery Dance 380 Broadway
Diego Piñón's Butoh Ritual Mexicano Center
Mountains of Tlalpujahua, Mexico
http://www.diegopinon.com/
kpierce@san.rr.com 619-429-7444