Butoh Dance Workshops
Saturday & Sunday, June 21 & 22
10am–2pm $120 (discount available, see registration details)
Koichi & Hiroko Tamano bio
so beautiful
listening, smelling, touching, tasting, seeing. Sensation is Language.
under your feet, Earth. above your head outer space.
There is Cosmos,also under your skin there is Cosmos.
Breeze blow through from micro Cosmos to outer Cosmos.
The breeze blow through the internal organs.
Into this empty body, invite in another life.
seed, tree, flower, rock, mountain, glacier, bird, animal, volcano, etc.
or you are invited to them.
There is a flower blooming on your chest.
the fragrance of the flower through your nose ,hit your forehead.
There is a real eye to open.
With this eye, you do Butoh as a poem.
Studio 210, 3435 Cesar Chavez St
San Francisco, CA 94110 map
24th St Bart, Muni bus 14 or 26
Saturday & Sunday, June 21 & 22
3pm–7pm $120 (discount available, see registration details)
organic
"We live in the body which is form proceeding through time. The body is always present. When I am fully in the body,
I experience a sense of timelessness. By being present in each moment, the past and the future are easily accessible.
I am a filter allowing energy and experience to pass through me." — Ledoh
organic is a two-day movement workshop with performer and choreographer, Ledoh, the Artistic Director of SALT FARM Butoh. This workshop will stress the importance being mutually supportive. This time has been created so that participants have an opportunity to explore movement without analysis or any preconceived ideas. Ledoh emphasizes that we must observe our body and mind's conditioning without judgement: when we register our conditioning then we can go beyond it and get to another level. The body is always present.
This is organic.
This two-day movement workshop is open to performers and non-performers. All are welcome. There will be time devoted to preparing the body for deeper movement explorations. Ledoh will offer movement principals, as a catalyst for individual research. Attention will be given to how we can realize, accept, and suspend our conditioning.
We aim to recognize the origin of our movement to create a starting point.
Studio 210, 3435 Cesar Chavez St
San Francisco, CA 94110 map
24th St Bart, Muni bus 14 or 26
Sunday, June 29
10am–2pm $60 (discount available, see registration details)
Shinichi Iova-Koga bio
Disciplines for the Hidden Body: Form, Imagery and Improvisation
Each motion or action should contain physical or psychological risk.
Only a dance on the edge of control reveals the honest life. Fall
into everything (or nothing). Our work is to transform (sometimes
abruptly, sometimes gently) the space within the body. The mind is a
place with a lot of mud. Sometimes the mud shines.
The process of creating performance work should expand and inform the
life of the dancer (aka: the human). Excellent technical abilities
are not enough to move us. The development of dance needs to support
spirit (I take “spirit” to mean both the liveliness and the
essence of a dancer).
I want to find the core reason for movement, whether kinesthetic and
imagistic. Using imagery to create the movement form, the body is
asked to move according to that interior impulse, not according to
exterior form. At the same time, some movements and shapes carry a
strong kinesthetic “message” in the body.
I utilize the conditions and environment in front of me. Ultimately,
the work must live in the moment, both for the audience and the dancer.
My own vocabulary is based on traditional Japanese performing arts,
re-interpreted to meet modern existence. Conventional or
unconventional, we confront the question “What is Dance?”
Sometimes we break conventions to expand the vision of dance.
Sometimes we tread the known territory to discover the depths.
Whether theatrical, environmental or kinesthetic, where I am asked to
lead, I am also led.
Following imagery and surrendering to the moment, we’ll work in
solo, duet and group improvisations. Through intensive reduction, our
personal body reality and existence clarifies to reveal beauty,
grotesqueness and humor. Work with necessary tension, releasing the unnecessary to let the
dance become permeable and malleable. We work from the center
(tanden) to move the far-reaching limbs. Develop listening in
relation to time, space and motion.
Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
301 - 8th St, 2nd Floor, Studio 200
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
Civic Center Bart
