Upcoming Events
Performing "Mudwound" for the DanceAction Garden Series
Friday, September 12th
7 pm
Upper West Side, NY
*Ticket holders will receive exact address.
Teaching Open Butoh Classes
for New York Butoh Institute/Vangeline Theater
Sunday, September 14 from 5-7 pm
Sunday, October 12 from 5-7 pm
115 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10012
Drawing upon personal performance practice and eco-somatics, these classes will explore butoh rooted in ephemerality, memory and collective consciousness. Through visuals of transience and disappearance the body will expand upon itself guided by reaching towards past selves, situated through the sensorial breath individually and collectively. As we travel through time, we evade it. Come join and explore this methodology with any level of experience.
Performing "CHIMAERA", a work in progress with Oscar Suh-Rodriguez for "Tiny Slices" in the East Village
Sunday, September 21st
7 pm
Manhattan, private residence- email for address.
Performing in"Hurricane" by Cate Christiansen
Saturday, September 20th
8 pm
Triskilion Arts
106 Calyer St.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Hurricane is a multimedia performance piece born from an investigation into the effect that preservation has on ephemera. By examining our relationships to technology, desire, temptation, greed, decay, and time; Hurricane investigates the opposing forces of the virtual world vs. the natural world, the individual vs. the collective, and the past/future vs. the present. We move through worlds without shape, shapes without form, words without meaning, music without time.
Choreography & Direction by Cate Christiansen
Original score by Noam Rapoport
Camera: Lucas Manuel-Scheibe
Dancers: Brigitte Manga, Calvin Mamis, Eilish Henderson, Ella BakerSmith, Havi Millar, Hunter Barnett, Ivy Lockhart, Leah Yassky, Madi Gibson, Megan McHugh, Rachel Moe, Sal Kimura, Yuxi Ma
Facilitating "Interbeing": Butoh/Contact Improvisation Classes
All Saturdays
September 27, from 1-4 pm
October 18, from 12-3 pm
November 1, from 1-4 pm
at Kestrels
188 6th St.
Brooklyn, NY
These open classes, entitled "Interbeing", facilitated by Eilish Henderson will act as a continuing inquiry into the ways in which we can approach contact improvisation from a butoh lens. The essence of our being is interbeing- with eternal and necessary threads connecting us to the land, rivers, and one another. Grounded in the notions of the body as water vessels, these classes will act as a supportive movement practice that engages a deep sense of listening-prioritizing care, slowness, and awareness of gravity in moments of contact. Each session will be distinct and informed by those present.
The flow will look something like this: arrival/grounding, several guided exercises with images/textures, open jam/improvisation, and a closing. No prior experience with butoh or contact improvisation is necessary.
Fee Structure:
$15-35 sliding scale
