Friday, JUNE 3, 2011

Shattercave

Choreographer: Helen Thorsen Performers: Mary Cutrera & Helen Thorsen Music: Noisepoetnobody

"If I die, survive me with such sheer force that you awaken the furies of the pallid and the cold, from south to south lift your indelible eyes, from sun to sun dream through your signing mouth..." Pablo Neruda

Helen Thorsen has been dancing butoh since 1980 after taking workshops with Eiko & Koma in Chicago. She has been dancing with Mary Cutrera since 1976, and together they formed LastLeg in 2002. Founding members of Dappin’ Butoh, Helen and Mary performed throughout its duration. Helen performed one of the first butoh dances at OTB in 1981. She is managing director of DAIPANbutoh Collective.

Black Widow

Choreographer/Performer: Kogut (Joan Laage) Music: Steven Miller Staging/Costumes: Joan Laage

Recognizing that desire is a hunger that can be both beautiful and terrifying, Black Widow explores the ground between need and greed. It was first performed in 1995 in Seattle to live music by Small Cruel Party, and then in 2003 at the first New York Butoh Festival and most recently for a Butoh Symposium at UCLA .

Joan Laage (Kogut) studied under Butoh masters Ohno Kazuo and Ashikawa Yoko, and performed with Ashikawa’s group Gnome while living in Tokyo in the late 1980s. Her company Dappin’ Butoh had its debut performance in Seattle in 1991. For 11 years, Dappin’ performed regularly in Seattle including Allegro! Dance Festival, New City/New Dance Festival and the Fringe Theater Festivals. She performed and taught at the Paris, New York, Portland, Chicago, and Boulder butoh festivals, and is featured in Sondra Horton Fraleigh’s books Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh Zen & Japan and Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy. Joan produced the 1998 and 2000 Seattle International Butoh Festivals. Joan is a docent at the Seattle Japanese garden, where she frequently performs for their events. *www.seattlebutoh.org+

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DAIPANbutoh Collective presents:

The Next WAVE

Seattle Butoh Festival 2011 June 3-18

Performances/Workshops/Forums

www.DAIPANbutoh.com

Dance of Darkness Performances

Performance starts 7:30pm both days, at Velocity Dance Center, 1621 12th Ave. Seattle 98122 Advanced ticket: $15; at the door $20

舞 踏

View from a top of the dune

Choreographers/Performers: Koichi & Hiroko Tamano Music: Kitaro Harupin Ha/Kochi and Hiroko Tamano are known as having paved the way for the first generation of American butoh artists. Koichi’s appearance at SFMOMA in 1976 started the history of Butoh in the USA. Koichi was born in Shizuoka one year after WW2 ended. He is the ninth child of a father who was a piano tuner and a mother who was a thread spinner. In 1964, he went to Tokyo and started working in a cabaret where he saw a dancing duet which shook his body. He was 18 when he decided to study dancing under Hijikata. Tamano debuted in "Bara iro Dance" in 1965, and worked under Hijikata as an apprentice till 1972 during Hijikata’s very productive period. Hiroko joined Koichi’s company Harupin Ha and they moved their home base to Berkeley, California in 1979. Named by Hijikata, Harupin Ha Butoh is loosely translated as “those who dance Butoh will achieve an awareness of being alive.”

The Last Potato: Sacrament and Gluttony

Choreographers/Performers: Sheri Brown, Diana García-Snyder, Alan Sutherland Musicians: Pretty Abandoned: Rosalynn DeRoos, Brian Hartman, Kevin Millard, Monica Schley, Noah Wilson

The Last Potato was originally choreographed in 2007 and first presented at the Food Court of the Seattle Center. Brown, Garcia-Snyder and Sutherland have been waiting for the perfect moment to restage this piece and now they are doing it with a new perspective. Watch out! They're hungry!

Sheri Brown: DAIPANbutoh Collective Artistic Director. First butoh teacher: Shinichi Iova-Koga. Primary subsequent teachers: butoh masters Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, Joan Laage. Influential other masters: Akira Kasai, Minako Seki, Su-En, Jay Hirobashi, Natsu Nakajima, Yoshito Ohno. Grants received: Conductive Garboil, GAP. Highlights from years with American butoh -inspired troupe P.A.N.: San Francisco Butoh, Overseas Korean Arts, and Chuncheon Mime Festivals. Solo highlights: Bangkok, Boulder, Asheville and Seattle Butoh Festivals + being selected to tour Europe and Americas with Katsura Kan. Next: joining Kan in Seattle International Dance Festival, touring solo to Japan, & teaching in Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. *sheribrown.com+ Diana Garcia-Snyder MFA: Co-founder of DAIPANbutoh Collective and Part-Time Dance Lecturer at the University of Washington in Bothell. Captivated by butoh's liveliness since 2003, after more than a decade of professional ballet, modern/contemporary dance career. Originally from Mexico, Diana currently performs, choreographs, researches and teaches butoh- inspired movement. She is also a Certified Pilates instructor and this June she is fortunate to be performing a butoh inspired multimedia installation in Korea and collaborating with Sheri Brown for a performance in Japan. Alan Sutherland began studying butoh with Helen Thorsen in 1995. He has danced with Dappin’, the Degenerates, Implied Violence and was a founding member of P.A.N. Alan has shown his work around the country and has performed in Europe and Asia. He is honored to be part of this Festival.

Saturday, JUNE 4, 2011

Miserere Mei

Choreographer/Performers: Danse Perdue Music: Joy Von Spain and Masaki Satsu

Miserere Mei (“have mercy upon me”): exhibiting the stations of the body and fragments of religious rituals, this dance tells the story of the spirit seeking salvation through the harrowing of the flesh.

Since its inception in 2002, Danse Perdue, “lost dance,” has served as a performance arts company whose projects are rooted in the exploration of spiritual and physical struggle, in crisis. Danse Perdue direct Psychomachia Theater, a performance and teaching space aimed at fostering ceremonial, transgressive and experimental work. Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe and Kaoru Okumura comprise the core of the company. Vanessa Skantze has 9 years of butoh experience and has been teaching Yoga for 15 years. She is a percussionist, singer and spoken word artist, who began her career touring with Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka. Kaoru Okumura studied butoh in 1993 at Asbestos-Kan in Tokyo with Akiko Motofuji, Hijikata's wife, and had her first performance there. She has been collaborating with Danse Perdue and other performers since 2008. Alex Ruhe is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. He has performed (ritual theater, butoh, text) and shown artwork (metal sculpture, oils, photography) in many venues in the states and in Europe. The members of Danse Perdue are thankful to Atsushi Takenouchi, Hiroko Komiya, their teachers, and for the work of Min Tanaka and Tatsumi Hijikata.

Danse Perdue is very active in the performance and music communities, often with several shows each month. Check www.danseperdue.org for their schedule. Butoh classes are Mon. and Fri., 6:30-9pm. Yoga classes are Sun. 11am-1pm and Wed. 7pm - 8:30pm. *206 697 3855, www.danseperdue.org+

Soil

Choreographer/Performer: Michael Sakamoto Music: Imanishi Reiko & Isohata Shinichi

Two farmers tried for years to harvest a barren plot. Finally, one said to the other, “I’m filthy, my body is all I own, and my imagination is nearly exhausted. I thought you said this was a fertile space?” The other replied, “It’s not?”

Michael Sakamoto is an interdisciplinary artist active in Butoh-based dance, contemporary theater, media art, and photography. His works have been performed and/or exhibited in Japan, Thailand, Mexico, and throughout Europe and North America. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including from the Japan Foundation, Meet the Composer, Arts International, Asian Cultural Council, California Community Foundation, and others. He has been an artist-in-residence at Arizona State University, Djerassi Resident Artists Foundation, CAMAC (France), and Watts Towers Arts Center. Michael has taught classes and workshops at numerous universities and colleges, including California Institute of the Arts, Chiang Mai University (Thailand), Arizona State University, and many others. He is currently on faculty in the MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College and lives in Los Angeles (USA) and Chiang Mai. *www.michaelsakamoto.com+

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1,000 Cracks

Choreographer/Performer: Tanya Calamoneri Director: Kenn Watt Sound design: Matt Tennie and Tanya Calamoneri Costumes: Mioko Mochizuki

This piece is inspired by Sarah Palin, Noh Theater, and ice fishing.

Tanya Calamoneri is the Artistic Director of Company SoGoNo and has been studying butoh intensively for more than a decade with Ko Murobushi, Minako Seki, Shinichi Koga, Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Su-En, Yuko Kaseki, Carlotta Ikeda, and many others. She was a member of Shinichi Koga's inkBoat from 2000-2003, touring Cockroach in the US and Germany, and co-choreographing the award winning piece, Heaven's Radio with inkBoat and her company violent dwarf. In addition to butoh, Tanya has been researching through movement for more than 30 years, ranging from ballet to circus to somatic movement therapy. She is also a PhD student writing about butoh, and brings a scholarly perspective on the history and philosophical basis of butoh dance to her teaching. *www.sogono.org+

Swallowing the Moon

Choreographer: Douglas Ridings Performers: Joan Laage (Rahu the serpent head, the moon, Saturn), Sheri Brown & Diana Garcia-Snyder (The Silent Twins, one-eyed witches and jackal bitches), Douglas Ridings (Ketu the serpent tail, the black sun, Saturn's crow)

Musicians: Stephen Fandrich, Mark Ostrowski Costumes: Jon Caberoy Sim

A dance for the shadow planets, Rahu and Ketu. They are the severed head and tail of the cosmic serpent who became the lunar nodes. The serpent head periodically attempts to swallow the sun and moon, causing an eclipse. Next full lunar eclipse: June 15, 2011.

Douglas Ridings has been dancing butoh since 1993. He has performed with P.A.N, Locust, Dappin' Butoh, Katsura Kan and Implied Violence. He is also a member of the Odissi group Urvasi, under the direction of Dr. Ratna Roy. He has performed extensively in the US, as well as in the Donau Festival Krems, Austria, the Teatro Pradillo in Madrid, Spain and the Kharavela festival in Bhubaneswar India. Like Bharata, legendary author of the Natya Shastra, he views performance as a kind of yogic discipline with the ultimate goal being spiritual liberation for both performers and audience. See Friday’s program for Joan Laage, Sheri Brown, and Diana Garcia-Snyder’s bio.

Dance of Darkness Staff Lighting: Jason Harber Stage Manager: Compass Noce House Manager: Lin Lucas Graphic Design: Diana Garcia-Snyder Program Design: Kaoru Okumura Door: Lin Lucas & David Thornbrugh Volunteer Coordinator: Compass Noce / Sheri Brown and we thank our many volunteers: Amanda Alice, Lugh, Bob Webb +2, Janet Qualman, Will Fredo, Jessica Ludescher and more.

Ankoku Butoh & Yoga Flow at Teatro de la Psychomachia, in SoDo

1534 1st Ave S. Seattle, WA 98134 by Danse Perdue www.danseperdue.org

Butoh classes: Mon & Fri, 6:30 - 9pm Yoga Classes: Sun 11am – 1pm, Wed 7 - 8:30pm

Contact Vanessa (206) 697-3855 15 years teaching experience

psychomachia.theater@gmail.com

Kokoro Dance (Vancouver, BC) in Seattle Butoh Festival 2010

Harupin Ha 哈爾賓派

(Koichi & Hiroko Tamano) Saturday, JUNE 4, 2-5 pm & Sunday, JUNE 5, 11:45 am - 2:45 pm, $50 each day Velocity Dance Center, 1621 12th Ave. Seattle WA 98122

This is a unique opportunity to study with artists who embody the techniques and spirit of Butoh founder Hijikata, having studied and performed under him for over 10 years. Hijikata called Koichi the “bow-legged Nijinsky”. Koichi studied and worked under Hijikata as an apprentice till 1972. He was always by his side during Hijikata’s most productive period. Hiroko Joined Koichi’s company “Harupin-Ha & his invisible troupe” 3 years later, and after his debut in the USA, their home base moved to Berkeley, California. The Tamano’s have been performing and teaching throughout the United States since 1979. Through the workshop, participants will learn a variety of practices that explore an intensified, embodied presence using nature imagery, the imagination, and rigorous physicality.

Tanya Calamoneri Monday, JUNE 6, 6:30 – 9:30 pm, $50 Teatro de la Psychomachia (SoDo), 1534 First Ave S. Seattle, WA 98132

Tanya Calmoneri Is the Artistic Director of Company SoGoNo and has been studying Butoh intensively for more than a decade with Ko Murobushi, Minako Seki, Shinichi Koga, Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Su-En, Yuko Kaseki, Carlotta Ikeda, and many others. She calls her workshop “Expandable

Habitats”. Laugh, tremble, and surprise yourself. Dancing imagery allows us to catch a ride on our dreams and becoming something else entirely. Using Japanese Butoh movement techniques, this class guides participants to free the body from artifice and fall into dance. We will work extensively with imagery to invoke quality of movement and to inform improvisations. Warm-ups use Noguchi gymnastics to foster efficiency of movement, increasing articulation, awareness, endurance, and exploding to the edges.

Michael Sakamoto Tuesday, JUNE 7 6:30 – 9:30 pm, $50 Teatro de la Psychomachia (SoDo), 1534 First Ave S. Seattle, WA 98132

Michael Sakamoto is a trans-disciplinary artist active in dance, theater, performance, and media art. He is perhaps best known as an innovator in contemporary Butoh, which is the physical and philosophical base of all of his works. Michael is a scholar and educator who has taught and lectured internationally on Butoh, published articles on dance and spirituality, and is a professor of interdisciplinary art at Goddard College in the USA. Based in philosophical concepts and embodiment practices from Zen and Butoh, his workshop “Mind/Body/Time” leads students through individual and group exercises in image-based movement, focusing on dialectic engagement with perceptions/projections of self and other and a variety of social, personal, and imagined binaries (e.g. internal/external, local/global, desire/fear, etc.). The goal is to give participants some basic tools for heightening awareness of their own mental/physical/energetic presence and its relationship to and symbiotic effect upon the surrounding environment and community.

Contact Vanessa (206) 697-3855 for reservation

Stepping Into Darkness Master Workshops

Historical Context of Butoh

Friday, JUNE 3, 11:00am

Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave. Seattle WA

NW butoh pioneer Joan Laage heads up a talk on butoh’s history and development including a wide range of illuminating films and commentary from festival artists.

Sheri Brown is the emcee and Joan Laage is the main speaker with commentary by special guests Koichi and Hiroko Tamano (SF), Tanya Calamoneri (NYC), Michael Sakamoto (LA) and DAIPAN members and associates: Maureen Freehill, Diana Garcia-Snyder, Vanessa Skantze, and Helen Thorsen. A Q&A with audience participation follows the film screenings and commentary.

Spirituality/Zen/Philosophy in Butoh

Sunday, JUNE 5, 4:00pm Seattle University, 901 12th Ave. Seattle WA 98122, Wychoff auditorium, Engineering Building, Room #200 (enter at the Broadway entrance)

This forum includes a panel of butoh & Zen scholars and butoh masters.

Moderator: Helen Thorsen Managing Director DAIPANbutoh

Panelists: Michael Sakamoto PHD Candidate, Tanya Calamoneri PHD Candidate, Koichi and Hiroko Tamano members of Hijikata’s (Butoh Founder) dance company, Jyl Shinjo Brewer (Zen monk and Butoh practitioner), Sheri Brown (Artistic Director DAIPANbutoh), Kaoru Okumura (DAIPANbutoh & Danse Perdue), Elizabeth Sikes PHD Seattle University, Vanessa Skantze (Danse Perdue & DAIPANbutoh), Christian Swensen Seattle University & DAIPAN Affiliate

Cultural Cross Currents

Thursday, JUNE 9, 7:00pm Cornish College for the Arts, Raisbeck Hall, 2015 Boren Ave. Seattle WA

Cultural influence/acceptance of diversity/overlap with contemporary dance, relationship with criticism: Katsura Kan, Tonya Lockyer and DAIPAN community discuss butoh’s interface/influence with contemporary dance aesthetics.

Moderator: Tanya Lockyer Panelists: Butoh Master Katsura Kan (Japan) as key speaker, with DAIPANbutoh Collective representatives Douglas Ridings, Haruko Nishimura, and Sheri Brown. Also on panel: Critic Omar Riley. Forum suggested Donation $5

The Transpacific Butoh Forums Forums

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919C NE 70th St. Seattle, WA 98115 Cell: 206-930-7293 Studio:206-709-3900

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Donors

We thank our Kickstarter Angels: David Thornbrugh & Joan Laage, Helen Thorsen, Lisa Whitsitt, Sheri Brown, Alan Sutherland, Robin Dorn, Tomasz Gil, Yulia Arakelyan, Mizu Desierto, Paula Foster, Eugene Nemirovsky, Bob Lyness, Patti King, Fran Buchanan, Teresa Malinowski, Laura, Jordan Rosin, Erik Ferguson, Cheryl Burns, Davis Limbach, Numbskull, Mary Cutrera, Elsbeth, Diane Tchakirides, Michael Sakamoto, Dean Moore, Laura&Monte, Sung Nicholas Kim, Tessa Bray, Eric Hodgins, Matt Rooke, Mary Montgomery, Rebecca Spainhower, Tormoz, Bruce Fogg, F. CRUZ, Mary Moore, Maria Nohs, Deborah Austin, Lin Lucas, Will Fredo, Joy Von Spain, William Kiesel, Gregory Macaraeg, Douglas Ridings, Linda Lins, Consuelo Gonzalez, Isaac Bekker, Alan Briones, Tom Belic

Raffle donors: Ballet, Jigsaw Renaissance, The Load Levelers, J4 Metal Works, Miguel Edwards Photography, The Idaho Meth Project, Retrofit Home, SuperGenius Tattoo, Victrolla Coffee, The Crypt, Babeland, Vermillion, Barca, The Unicorn, Mehndi Madness, North West Massage Clinic, Tenzing Momo & Co, Capitol Loans, The Feed Bag, Bootyland, Sweat Box Yoga, Platinum Records, Capitol Loans, Douglas Ridings, Danse Perdue, Horizon Books, Local bands cds, Diana Garcia-Snyder, Hardware Studios, Kaladi Brothers Coffee, Robin Abrahams, Grande Tours, Compass Noce

Coming Events Seattle International Dance Festival - Art on the Fly. JUNE 11.

2:15pm Performance Danse D’Etre Joie at Whole Foods Market, 2210 Westlake Ave.

3:15pm flash-mobbic Performance Katatonic and Butoh processional at Lake Union Park, 860 Terry Ave N.

Seattle International Dance Festival - Inter|National Artists Series, JUNE 10-11.

8:00pm Performance Katsura Kan (Japan) performing Voyagers - a duet with Sharoni Stern Siegel (CO) at Cornish Collage of the Arts, Raisbeck Hall Theater, 2015 Boren Ave.

JUNE 18, 8:30pm: Performance by workshop students at Teatro de la Psychomachia, 1531 1st Ave.

JUNE 11. Butoh Performance in Seoul Korea at Doosa Gallery by Diana Garcia-Snyder

JUNE 18. Performance in Osaka Japan at FLOAT "AnOtherSide" by Sheri Brown and Diana Garcia-Snyder

JULY 30, 3-6 pm “Wandering and Wondering” at the Seattle Japanese Garden - a site specific sound and movement event directed by Joan Laage and Susie Kozawa.

Strengthening the presence of Butoh in Seattle and the Northwest

Performance | Workshop | Cross-cultural Exchange

http://www.daipanbutoh.com/