Upcoming Events

Performing a work in progress with Oscar Suh-Rodriguez at Green Lung Studios

Wednesday, September 3rd

7 pm

22 Commerce Street

Brooklyn, NY 11231

Facilitating "Interbeing": Butoh/Contact Improvisation Classes

All Saturdays

September 6, from 1-4 pm

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:

All 4 classes: $55-$160 sliding scale

Single class for $15-35 sliding scale

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.