2007
NEW YORK
BUTOH FESTIVAL
BUTOH FESTIVAL
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Art for Families workshop with Yuko Kaseki: Dancer Yuko Kaseki leads an introductory butoh workshop for families with children ages 5 to 11. (More details) Venue: Noguchi Museum |
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Nancy Zendora: The Reluctant Wanderer Nancy Zendora will perform among the elegant and serene art of Isamu Noguchi, a contemporary of butoh founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kuzuo Ohno. (More details) Venue: Noguchi Museum |
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CUNY Butoh Film Series: This film series is dedicated to butoh dance's co-founder Kazuo Ohno and is comprised of the videos he gave over to John Solt. Brief remarks and an audience Q&A with John Solt will follow each video. (More details) Venue: Martin E. Segal Theater Center |
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Yuko Kaseki: A physically charged workshop drawing upon techniques from butoh, Noguchi gymnastics, and Tai-Chi. Concentration on the center of the body (tanden) is the focus. (More details) Register Venue: Dance Theater Workshop |
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Yuko Kaseki: See Oct 15. (More details) Register Venue: Dance Theater Workshop |
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Butoh Marathon Program: On October 27, Kazuo Ohno's actual 101st birthday, there will be a marathon of performances from U.S.-based artists whose artistic visions have been influenced by butoh. Closing the evening is Emptiness (Kuu), a solo by Yoshito Ohno, son of Kazuo Ohno. The evening will culminate with a Birthday Party open to ticket holders. (More details) Venue: Japan Society |
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Akira Kasai: Students will generate inner-energy for dance and create the flow of "inner-time and inner-space" while discovering and experiencing KasaiÕs eclectic choreography. (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Dance Theater Workshop |
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Yoshito Ohno: Students are invited to ask themselves: "What does it mean to create the presence of the body?" Dancers will be introduced to the foundation of butoh, as imparted by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Movement Research |
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Yoshito Ohno: See Oct. 28 (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Movement Research |
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Akira Kasai: See Oct 28 (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Dance Theater Workshop |
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Yoshito Ohno: See Oct. 28 (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Movement Research |
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Akira Kasai: See Oct 28 (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Dance Theater Workshop |
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CAVE Artist Talks: Yoshito Ohno (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: CAVE |
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CAVE Artist Talks: Ko Murobushi (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: CAVE |
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CAVE Artist Talks: Akira Kasai (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: CAVE |
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Ko Murobushi Students are guided through fundamental butoh exercises involving relaxation, breath control, sensory exploration and image-based transformations. (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Movement Research |
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Ko Murobushi See Nov. 2 (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Movement Research |
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Anthology Film Archives Butoh Program:
Summer Storm (2003) by Masao Arai (More details) Venue: Anthology Film Archives |
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Ko Murobushi See Nov. 2 (More details) SOLD OUT Venue: Movement Research |
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Anthology Film Archives Butoh Program:
Beauty and Strength (2001) Assembled by NHK Software (More details) Venue: Anthology Film Archives |
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Anthology Film Archives Butoh Program:
Beauty and Strength (2001) Assembled by NHK Software (More details) Venue: Anthology Film Archives |
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Anthology Film Archives Butoh Program:
Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali; The Seashell and The Clergyman (1928) by Germain Dulac
(More details) Venue: Anthology Film Archives |
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Garnica Leimay AcTS Lab: A Timeless Kaidan (World Premiere) Garnica Leimay AcTS Lab brings together a group of three Japanese butoh dancers: Takuya Ishide, Daiji Meguro,Yuko Kaseki; a design team composed of video and installation artist Shige Moriya, sound designer Nao Sakamoto and a group of ten young New York based performers in an incandescent interdisciplinary performance about human fear. (More details) Post-performance opening celebration! Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Garnica Leimay AcTS Lab: A Timeless Kaidan (World Premiere) See Nov 6. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Garnica Leimay AcTS Lab: A Timeless Kaidan (World Premiere) See Nov 6. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Atsushi Takenouchi: Kizamu (NY Premiere) Kizamu means to carve very important experience or memories into the body. Takenouchi dances the memory of the space, air and sounds, which he has encountered in the various corners of the world and has carved into his body. Performing with live music by Hiroko Komiya, they collaborate in bringing alive memories in the moment of space and sound. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Ko Murobushi: Quick Silver (U.S. Premiere) Ko Murobushi's latest solo exudes boundless energy from his silver-painted body, like mercury that has exploded its strength away. Using only his formidable physicality, Murobushi radiates the lasting life essence of mercury powder as it waves and rolls its way in all directions across the stage. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Atsushi Takenouchi:
This workshop guides participants through a variety of butoh techniques: image body, transformation by internal and external states, conscious and unconscious movement, and a dialogue between the body and the environment. (More details) Register Venue: Movement Research |
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Ko Murobushi: Quick Silver (U.S. Premiere) See Nov. 9 (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Taketeru Kudo: Go-Zarashi (Karma Exposer) (U.S. Premiere) Kudo explores questions he has been harboring since the time of his debut: conflict between the folkloric blood and the wilderness of modernity. These elements will connect with his yearning for dramatic structure, creating total theater by a single man. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Atsushi Takenouchi:
See Nov. 10 (More details) Register Venue: Movement Research |
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Denise Fujiwara: Sumida River by Natsu Nakajima (NY Premiere) Sumida River is the haunting tale of a woman in search of her stolen child. Internationally acclaimed butoh choreographer Natsu Nakajima has created this spellbinding solo interpretation of the renowned 15th century Japanese noh play for the remarkable Canadian performer, Denise Fujiwara. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Taketeru Kudo: Go-Zarashi (Karma Exposer) (U.S. Premiere) See Nov 10. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Takuya Ishide: To a Wounded Bird Who Doesn't Stop Pecking Me (U.S. Premiere) "I am discovered by dancing - in addition I am judged. When my image is not real, my flesh discloses it honestly." A former dancer of Tatsumi Hijikata's, Ishide has developed as a solo improvisational dancer. Ishide's dances are characterized by a sense of risk derived from spontaneous constitution of his inner images (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: Theater For The New City |
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Sondra Fraleigh: An Introduction to ButohÕs Founders: Hijikata and Ohno Sondra Fraleigh tells the story of the founding of butoh through the partnership of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, as she weaves its aesthetic development with the social and political issues of post-World War II Japan. (More details) Venue: Martin E. Segal Theater Center |
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Yukio Waguri: HijikataÕs Butoh-Fu from WaguriÕs Notebooks Yukio Waguri will share his exploration of the nature of butoh choreography, with its intense physicality and deep relationship to poetry and the visual arts. Butoh-Fu is a system that Waguri has developed directly from the words and choreography of his teacher, Tatsumi Hijikata. (More details) Venue: Martin E. Segal Theater Center |
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Tatsuro Ishii: The International Spread of Butoh: Body as Object Tatsuro Ishii will discuss various aspects of butoh as they relate to Shamanistic traditions in Asia. Though butoh was born within the limited historical and artistic context of 1950s and 1960s Japan, it has carried with it certain universal aspects of the body that permeate ancient traditions of the body in Asia. (More details) Venue: Martin E. Segal Theater Center |
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Atsushi Takenouchi: SKIN:Improvisation #1 Special international guest improvisation. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: CAVE |
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Atsushi Takenouchi: SKIN:Improvisation #1 Special international guest improvisation. (More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: CAVE |
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Ariane Anthony,
Rachel Finan,
Leigh Evans
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Vangeline Theater
Mei-Be Whatever
Amos Pinhasi
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Parker Pracjek,
Zack Fuller,
Irem Calikusu
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Celeste Hastings,
Erin Kelly,
Tanya Calamoneri
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Ariane Anthony,
Rachel Finan,
Leigh Evans
(More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: CAVE |
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Parker Pracjek,
Zack Fuller,
Irem Calikusu
(More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: CAVE |
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Festival Benefit Performance with Yukio Waguri
(More details) Venue: CAVE |
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Vangeline Theater,
Mei-Be Whatever,
Amos Pinhasi
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Celeste Hastings,
Erin Kelly,
Tanya Calamoneri
(More details) Purchase Tickets Venue: CAVE |
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Yukio Waguri This workshop investigates the relationship between Shamanism and Dance and Body. Students will investigate the power of transformation as a fundamental element of butoh. (More details) Venue: Movement Research |
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Yukio Waguri See Nov 19. (More details) Venue: Movement Research |
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Yukio Waguri See Nov 19. (More details) Venue: Movement Research |