Date: August 17 (Sunday)Time: 10am-3pm
$50.00 for 5 hour workshop
Space is limited.
Butoh attempts to affirm the dance which lies within the body--the body is, in itself, contmplated as a small univers..." -Goda Nario, "on Ankoku Butoh"
"The Poetic Body Butoh" is an internal meditation through dance. In this class, students will explore the process of reshaping ones experience though body awareness and image work. Nothing is ever as we think it is. The body is a constantly changing form. This work can go from slow, intensive focus to quick chaos. To become what you are doing and to not merely pretending is our aim.
In Butoh, we move from metaphors and atmosphere added to the body until we become sometimes unknown even to the self. Imagination: fluid, flowing like lightening coursing through the veins of a tree and a fish swimming in your stomach. We begin to understand that moving nature is a paradox in space and time. It is exposed and present. Students will become aware of stillness, disappearing, holding and exploding through solo, partner and group exercises.
Class is open to all levels of movement experience.
The Instructor: Jennifer Hicks M.F.A, R.Y.T is an instructor at Naropa University in the MFA in Contemporary Performance Department and hails as a performer, choreographer, teacher and artist. She received her MFA from Naropa University in Contemporary Performance and BFA from Tufts University. She was also a recipient of the Traveling Scholars Award from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her interest in Butoh sparked in the mid 1980's and she began to study seriously in 1994. Since then, she has been dancing with KASTURA Kan in his international Butoh company for over 8 years and has founded her own company, Fragile Creep which will be performing this summer in the Boston area and in Colorado. In addition, Jennifer is a certified Shintaido Instructor, Trance Dance International Facilitator and a Yoga Instructor registered with the National Yoga Alliance.
Contact Information
Email: Janna Meiringjanna@eliotstreetcollective.com
Website: http://www.eliotstreetcollective.com/
"The Poetic Body Butoh" is an internal meditation through dance. In this class, students will explore the process of reshaping ones experience though body awareness and image work. Nothing is ever as we think it is. The body is a constantly changing form. This work can go from slow, intensive focus to quick chaos. To become what you are doing and to not merely pretending is our aim.
In Butoh, we move from metaphors and atmosphere added to the body until we become sometimes unknown even to the self. Imagination: fluid, flowing like lightening coursing through the veins of a tree and a fish swimming in your stomach. We begin to understand that moving nature is a paradox in space and time. It is exposed and present. Students will become aware of stillness, disappearing, holding and exploding through solo, partner and group exercises.
Class is open to all levels of movement experience.
The Instructor: Jennifer Hicks M.F.A, R.Y.T is an instructor at Naropa University in the MFA in Contemporary Performance Department and hails as a performer, choreographer, teacher and artist. She received her MFA from Naropa University in Contemporary Performance and BFA from Tufts University. She was also a recipient of the Traveling Scholars Award from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her interest in Butoh sparked in the mid 1980's and she began to study seriously in 1994. Since then, she has been dancing with KASTURA Kan in his international Butoh company for over 8 years and has founded her own company, Fragile Creep which will be performing this summer in the Boston area and in Colorado. In addition, Jennifer is a certified Shintaido Instructor, Trance Dance International Facilitator and a Yoga Instructor registered with the National Yoga Alliance.
Contact Information
Email: Janna Meiringjanna@eliotstreetcollective.com
Website: http://www.eliotstreetcollective.com/
