Celebrate: Butoh Dance 50th Anniversary
Butoh Dance Events and Performances
All tickets and donations at the door.
Movie Night
Sundays: Aug 30th, Sept 13th, Oct 4th
Tamano performance archives, surreal film, godzilla! On the couches with popcorn!
Sunday, August 30 7pm
Koichi and Hiroko Tamano's Harupin-Ha performance video and a Tastumi Hijikata film.
Sunday, September 13 7pm
Videos from Richard Waara's collection that explore some of the cultural influences of Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata including the Ballets Russes and Surrealism. Plus a documentary on Butoh's origin in Japan.
Sunday, October 4th 7pm
Dance video director Eric Koziol presents selections from his body of work.
subterranean arthouse
2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
between Shattuck and Fulton map
AlkemiKal WarFair: Visual Art, Installation and Dance Performance Curated by Luku
Friday, Sept 4th 8pm tickets at the door
This show features a large cross section of visual, auditory, spatio-temporal manipulators from all backgrounds of art who now reside in the San Francisco Bay area. There will be funk and hopefullyat least a small portion of cosmic slop for the soul.
Butoh Cabaret
Sunday, September 6th 4–7pm
Fundraiser for marley floors and lighting system at subterranean arthouse.
This Here Show
Saturday, September 19th 8pm
$5-15 sliding scale
www.thishere.org
Improvised Performance #7 – Gently Plugged
featuring…
Amanda Moody – voice
Andrew Juris – projections
Christina Braun – Butoh Dance
Mark Briggs – voice
Craig Latta – guitar
Doug Carroll – cello
Eliot Miranda – guitar
Emily Bezar – voice
Herb Heinz – guitar
Radio Brunettes (Catherine Debon and Jenny Schaffer)
Tom Nunn – skatchbox
Temescal Arts Center
511 48th Street (at Telegraph)
Oakland, CA 94609
Bare Bones Butoh 15 Performance
Friday, Sept. 25 & Saturday, Sept. 26
Both performances at 8pm
Performing Friday, September 25:
Darya Chernova, Martha Matsuda, Bob Webb, Constance Taylor, Liz Saari-Filippone, Angelina La Miette & Qayyuma Didominico,
Ri Molnar, Michael Curran, Isabell Zeviar, Karen Light, and Christina Braun.
Musicians: Mark Deutsch and Aharon Wheels Bolsta.
Performing Saturday, September 26:
Darya Chernova, Laurie BK, Bob Webb, Angelina La Miette & Qayyuma Didominico, Liz Saari-Filippone, Terre Parker, Iu-Hui Chua, Joy Cosculluela & Christian Nagler, Jennifer Gwirtz, Michael Curran, Isabell Zeviar and Karen Light
Studio 210, 3435 Cesar Chavez St
San Francisco, CA 94110 map
24th St Bart, Muni bus 14 or 26
Bob Webb's Butoh Wilding
Saturday, October 10 High Noon
What is a Wilding? It's a bunch of us getting together in one place, at one time and just dancing. No agenda, no choreography, no plan. We dance what the wind and the prevailing sensations tell us to dance. It's experiencing movement in nature in it's purest form.
Hope you can join us.
For more info, please call Bob Webb at 415-821-7124 (till Thursday, the 8th late afternoon).
Harbin Hot Springs 800-622-2477
Meet at the Temple and go from there
(if you don't know this place,
just ask anyone when you arrive) directions
Burning: An Olimpas Disability Culture Installation and Performance
Saturday, October 17 7pm
$10 suggested donation
Art Installation all day. Class 1–3pm. Performance 7pm
Come and explore with us the poetics of bodily fantasies in our new Olimpias Disability Culture happening. Put your arms around someone, accept a touch, put words in your mouth: what does it feel like to speak of cancer, of leprosy and environmental toxicity? Locate yourself. What happens when bodies change, undergo transformation, expose themselves? What happens as you let images and poetry of poison and healing roll down your veins? Move with us, be moved by us. Dance improvisation, butoh, contact, ritual, video, visual art and poetry in a performance installation.
Performance participants, videodancers and art creators include: Adam (the late Paul Cotton), Amber DiPietra, Ashok Albrecht, Dax Pierson, Eboni Hawkins, Eleni Stecopoulos, Harold Burns, Kristina Yates, Leroy Moore, Leora Amir, Leslie Schickel, LissaIvy Tiegel, Mayuko Ayabe, Neil Marcus, Petra Kuppers, Sadie Wilcox.
Director: Petra Kuppers. Info: www.olimpias.org
The performance installation takes place inside the art exhibit CORPOREAL DISTANCE. Sadie Wilcox uses large-scale drawings to document somatic movement sequences and improvisational crip-choreography. The work on paper includes graphite, conté, and acrylic media depicting multi-layered configurations of physical gesture and kinesthetic interaction. The series was created in response to the 2009 Olimpias Disability Culture workshops.
Christina Braun and Skorpio dance to composer Scott Perry's music at Friday Nights at the de Young
October 23 5:45–8:45pm
de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, SF, CA 94118 directions
Limbo (What Happens Between)
works by Bob Webb, Liz Saari-Filippone
Friday & Saturday, October 23 & 24 8pm
Sunday, October 25 7pm
$15 reservations 415-273-4633 or
www.brownpapertickets.com
Where do you come from?
Where are you going?
Limbo explores what happens between.
Featuring Dorine Hoeksema, Shawnrey Notto and special guests. Koichi and Hiroko Tamano will perform Sunday only.
Dance Mission
3316 24th Street, San Francisco CA 94110
across the street from 24th Street BART map
All Saint's Day Event
Sunday, November 1
Day of the Dead Procession Performance
coordinated by Jeff Brown
Monday, November 2
Mission District, San Francisco
The International Center of the San Francisco Main Public Library and SF Butoh LAB present...
The Symposium on Butoh Dance: Emergence
Friday, November 6 1–4pm Free
At 50, Butoh dance is so young an art form that practitioners are often asked “What is Butoh?” Presenters Katsura Kan, Koichi and Hiroko Tamano, Katherine Mezur, Takami, Yukihiro Goto, Brechin Flournoy, Christina Braun will explore Butoh's orgin in 1959 Japan and the current global nature of this highly influential art form with a lecture, dance demonstration, archival film screening, a moderated panel discussion with leading artists and thinkers, and an audience question and answer period. Dance critic Rita Felciano will contribute to the panel discussion.
Koret Auditoium at SF Main Public Library
100 Larkin St, San Francisco CA 94102 map
Performance: Bay Area and Beyond Butoh
Friday, November 6th 8pm
Tickets are $10-20 at the door.
Reservations are recommended and will be held until 15 minutes before showtime. Reserve by e-mail through our contact page.
The film Nightsoil by Thad Povey, Alfonso Alvarez and Lucio Menegon will be screened. Christina Braun in collaboration with original instrumentalist Tom Nunn and projection artist Andrew Juris; Anastazia Louise of bad unkl sista,and Jennifer Hicks of fragilecreep will perform.
Ledoh, Katsura Kan, Koichi and Hiroko Tamano and Harupin-Ha Performance
Saturday, November 7 8pm
Tickets are $10-20 at the door.
Reservations are recommended and will be held until 15 minutes before showtime. Reserve by e-mail through our contact page.
Katsura Kan's Student Showing
Sunday, November 8 7pm
Closing Party
Sunday, November 8
Place and time TBD
Butoh Dance Classes and Workshops
Introduction to Butoh with Hiroko Tamano
Monday nights 8:15–10pm ongoing class
Butoh Experience curated by Christina Braun
Saturdays 1–3pm ongoing class
There will be no class on September 26.
Workshop with Shinichi Iova-Koga and Yuko Kaseki
Saturday, Oct 3rd
Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus lead the Butoh Experience
Saturday, October 17 1–3pm
Art Installation all day. Class 1–3pm. Performance 7pm
Butoh Neshamah — Dance of the Soul
with Shakina Nayfack
Sunday, October 18 11am-1pm
Buffoons Dance Butoh
Workshop: October 27–30 10–1pm
Performance: Friday, October 30 1–2pm
Observation and Mythology
12 hour Choreography Workshop and Student Performance opportunity with Katsura Kan
Workshop: November 3–5 and 8
Student Showing: Sunday, November 8 7pm
Please visit the Workshops Page for more details.
All classes and workshops except Butoh Neshamah held at:
subterranean arthouse
2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
between Shattuck and Fulton map
Koichi Tamano
Harupin-Ha
Katsura Kan Photo by Doug Slater
Jennifer Hicks Photo by Alex Miles Younger
Christina Braun & Neil Marcus
Ledoh
Bare Bones Butoh Photo by Darya Chernova