BUTOH WORKSHOP WITH KATSURA KAN IN NEW YORK HOSTED BY VANGELINE THEATER

BUTOH WORKSHOP WITH KATSURA KAN HOSTED BY VANGELINE THEATER IN NEW YORK

June 7, 8, 9, 10, 2012

LOCATION: TRISKELION ARTS IN WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN
118 North 11th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211-1914

L train to Bedford Avenue


DATES AND TIMES:

Thursday, 6/7/2012: 6pm to 9pm- Studio X
Friday, 6/8/2012: 6pm to 9pm- Studio X
Saturday, 6/9/2012: 1pm to 5pm- Studio A
Sunday, 6/10/2012: noon to 4pm-Studio A


Katsura Kan is a Japanese choreographer, dancer, art director and instructor, currently based in Kyoto, Japan. He began his Butoh career as a Butoh dancer with the Japanese group Byakkosha in 1979. He founded the multinational Dance Company "Katsura Kan & Saltimbanques" in 1986. Since then, Katsura Kan been leading research projects funded by the Japan Foundation with asian artists and have held the international workshop festival "Harvesting Beauty in the field" in Kyoto (1991~94); in 1997, he moved to Bangkok to collaborate with contemporary asian theatre. In 2001, he started a research project about "minorities" with the intention to collaborate with dancers in Bosnia, Serbia and Greece. He is currently working on a Samuel Beckett text called "Beckett Butoh Notation" in Paris, France and Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

www.katsurakan.com

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

"Surrealism of Flesh 2012"
"Butoh" has an intention "To create something that can not be named on stage" therefore, instead of expressing something by body, "Butoh" performs this mysterious "body" itself.
Content:
1) Observation (Natural Walk)
2) Carrying the Landscape;Wind work & Scuffing -Noh walk; )
3) Meaning and no meaning

;Kan’s Butoh Notation;
4) Transformation work 1 (Visual-Sound-InnerSence-Movement-Communication and Memory)


FEES AND REGISTRATION INFO:

Prices and fees:



Early Bird Special:
ENROLL BEFORE MAY 30th, 2012:


4 days: $240
2 classes only (Thursday and Friday only): $90; $45 each class
Week end only (Saturday and Sunday only) $150

ENROLLMENT: contact vangelinetheater@yahoo.com

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