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Northwest Butoh Wave A unique opportunity to study with International masters and experience
the diverse and innovative Butoh scene in the Northwest/Regional U.S.
DAIPANbutoh Collective presents:
AGOGO Performance Regional Butoh Festival
November 5th & 6th, 2010. 8PM at Velocity Dance Center, Seattle WA USA
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practices and pilates. Holds a MFA degree in dance from UW. Her work has been presented in the US, Korea, Mexico and Beijing. [www.diana-garcia.com]
Joan Laage, Kogut Butoh Joan studied under Butoh Masters Ohno Kazuo and Ashikawa Yoko, and performed with Ashikawa’s group Gnome while living in Tokyo in the late 1980’s. She founded Dappin’ Butoh in Seattle in 1991, and is noted as a pioneer in bringing Butoh to the Pacific Northwest. She is featured in Sondra Horton Fraleigh’s books Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan, and performed and taught at Paris, New York, Chicago, Portland and Boulder Butoh Festivals. [www.seattlebutoh.org]
Haruko Nishimura Haruko Nishmura is artistic director of Degenerate Art Ensemble. In the near future, she will be performing at Robert Wilson's Watermill center in New York and will be presenting her group's exhibition/performance at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle 2011. [www.degenerateartensemble.com] Helen Thorsen "My soul is turning to ashes. If I breathe out They spill from my body. I breathe myself in and out. My soul floats throughout the sky As it turns to ashes and falls." Kazuo Ohno
Celebrating our 27th year on Capitol Hill, we would like
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DAIPANbutoh is a performance collective formed for the purpose of melding the talents and energy of
its eight Seattle-based Butoh founding members: Sheri Brown, Diana Garcia-Snyder, Joan Laage, Douglas Ridings, Alex Ruhe, Vanessa Skantze, Alan Sutherland, and Helen Thorsen. Our purpose is to devote our energy to bringing Butoh to Seattle audiences. Seattle is one of the strongest international hubs of Butoh in the world community. Butoh is a deeply moving and evocative Japanese performance that has been steadily growing in Seattle since the early eighties. A movement form that emerged from post war Japan in 1959, Butoh seeks nothing less than the transformation of the world, one performance at a time. Fifty-one years later, these two evenings of our Agogo offer a full-spectrum of today’s emerging American Butoh ascendancy. Thank you for your vital role in community transformation through your deep listening presence. We hope you relish the richness of these nights and take with you inspired new views of being.
Northwest Butoh AGOGO Staff: Artistic Director: Sheri Brown Production Manager: Joan Laage Marketing, Web & Graphic Designer: Diana Garcia-Snyder Front of House & Volunteer Coordinator: Helen Thorsen PR Distribution & Workshop Host: Danse Perdue Lighting: Jason Harber Stage Manager: Compass Noce Program designer: Kaoru Okumura Videographers: Kaoru Okumura, Jonathan Clarren Volunteers: Sister Angela Merici, Sister Mary Tyler
Moregasm, Nicholai Michael Spicer, Libby Lourie, Shelli Park, David Thornbrugh, Katrina Ellison, Cesario Larios, Consuelo Gonzalez
DAIPAN AGOGO is made possible by donors and sponsors: Dr. Matsunami, Sheri Brown, Laura Weeks, Jessica Ludescher, Helen Thorsen, Diana Garcia-Snyder, Sue Ellen Harrison, Haruko Nishimura, Willow Fox, Francoise Hovivienne, Len Davis, Sisters Of the Mother House Of Washington (S.O.M.H.O.W.) , Octo Sushi.
www.daipanbutoh.com
www.seattlesisters.org
© Briana Jones, © Kaoru Okumura
Day 1: November 5th, Friday
Pre-show D.I.S.T.A.N.C.E. movement installation: Diana Garcia-Snyder; Concept & Costume Design: Bo Choi
Ainsi Soit-Il : Sheri Brown Music: Vokuro, Bjork, Doublequad, Void, Melts Slowly, Marron/dubmarronics, Tonolec
The Emancipation of Pauline and Juliet: Danse Perdue Music: Lube Fondue
BONE SOUP: Douglas Ridings Music: Stephen Fandrich <Intermission>
(): Kokoro Dance Music: Sigur Ros; Costume: Tsuneko Kokubo
Jyl Brewer Jyl lives on Vashon Island and continues to practice and teach Zen and Butoh, having lived and trained in Japan and France under Shodo Harada Roshi, Katsura Kan, Kazuo Ohno, Min Tanaka, and Genno Roshi. Joe and Carol both live on Vashon Island and attribute their Butoh training to practicing with Jyl, but mainly to their varied and interesting lives.
Sheri Brown is the Artistic Director of DAIPANbutoh. She works as an independent artist, teacher, and producer. Holding a BA in Theatre (ASU) and Masters in Education (UH), she began Butoh dance in 2001 with Seattle’s seminal post-Butoh punk protest performance troupe, the P.A.N. with whom she danced extensively regionally as well as in Asia; highlight performances include “V.V” at the San Francisco Butoh Festival and “Crosspollination” at the International Mime Festival in Korea where her troupe earned the “Dokkebi’ award for most advanced creativity. This summer Sheri was honored to accept Katsura Kan’s invitation to assist him in workshops/performances in Greece, Sweden, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Seattle. Recent creation of her work has been made possible in part by Artist Trust (GAP Grant), 4Culutre (Conductive Garboil Grant), and Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs (smart Ventures Grant). Upcoming projects include the Seattle academic/cultural Butoh conference in conjunction with Kan and UCLA (May), Fairy Orb Trip II Tour in Japan (June), and “Oracle & Enigma 2011” four-city U.S. Tour. [www.sheribrown.com]
Danse Perdue are the founders of Psychomachia Theater in SODO Seattle, a performance and teaching space aimed at fostering transgressive and experimental work. Open Butoh classes are Mondays and Fridays, 6:30-9pm (info:[email protected]). The work of Danse Perdue is rooted in ritual approaches to spiritual and physical struggle ...Crisis. “Danse Perdue reflects how empathy is mutated by violence, how we are all inextricably linked in the unspeakable. We arc towards a revolution of everyday life by eschewing the familiar, the comfortable, and instead creating work out of the unknown.” [www.danseperdue.org]
Kokoro Dance Kokoro Dance is a Butoh dance company
based in Vancouver, BC that was formed in 1986 by Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi. Kokoro Dance has created over one hundred and fifty dance works and has performed across Canada, in the United States, and in Europe. [www.kokoro.ca]
Mizu Desierto Mizu Desierto is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Portland’s Water in the Desert and The Headwaters Theatre & Center for International Exchanges in the Arts. She is a performer, choreographer, costume designer and educator whose work explores themes of personal truth, ecological sensitivity and transformation. [www.mizudesierto.com]
MomoButoh Dance Company founder Maureen "momo" Freehill, MFA lived, performed & studied in Japan with her primary teacher & life/art inspiration Kazuo Ohno for 5 years. His guidance to dance freely from heart & soul; removing separation between dance & day to day life; is a primary intention in all MomoButoh works. Next event is annual 11/11 ritual performance with Spawning Salmon. [Contact MomoButoh: [email protected]]
Douglas Ridings & Stephen Fandrich Douglas is a dancer of Butoh and Odissi, an actor, a singer and a teacher of Hatha Yoga. He performs regularly with Katsura Kan, Urvasi, and Implied Violence. Stephen is a composer, pianist, singer and multi-instrumentalist. He is director of Seattle Harmonic Voices and a member of Gamelan Pacifica. [www.douglasridings.com ]
Sharoni Stern Siegel Sharoni is executive producer of the Boulder Butoh Festival and artistic director of her own Butoh Company, Hanaji Butoh. She has worked intensively for the last three years with Butoh Master KATSURA Kan, both as his dancer and assistant choreographer. She is also an avid swing and blues dancer and teacher.
Diana Garcia-Snyder Co-founding member of Seattle's DAIPAN Butoh Collective. Mexican born performer and teaching artists. with more than 20 years of experience evolving from ballet to modern and contemporary to sacred dance, Butoh, yoga, somatic
Artist Bios
Kundalini Stavah: Diana Garcia Snyder Music: Joel Palmer; Advisors/Mentors: Marv & Peggy Thomas; Costume: Bo Choi
“Kundalini Stavah” is an offering to the POWER within. Dedicated to my husband, friends and family. In each human being Shakti (Kundalini) lies asleep in a coiled form, waiting to be awakened by the master… Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Love+Body=Landscape: MomoButoh Dance Company Maureen “momo” Freehill & Haruko Nishimura SoundScape: Jeff Huston Photography: Rex Hohlbein; Costume: Lynn Mizono Slideshow: Lee Atwell
A collaboration investigating immediacy & exchange between human & non-human landscape
ANGE DECHU: Jyl Brewer, Joe Allison, Carol Wilcox Music: Keren Ann, Vig Mihaly Music compilation: Shareyar Ataie
Silver Loophole: Sharoni Stern Siegel Choreographers: KATSURA Kan and Sharoni Siegel Music: Piano, Japanese toys and African drumming – unknown
Soft August / Hard August: Mizu Desierto Music: Johnny Greenwood, Mizu Desierto Costume: Mizu Desierto
<Intermission>
Untitled/Improvisation: Haruko Nishimura Costume: Christine Tschirgi
The River: Helen Thorsen Music: NoisePoetNobody
“You can linger there alone in the midst of dead silence, if you wish. but outside, life continues around you as though nothing were happening" Kazuo Ohno
xviii: Sheri Brown & Sharoni Stern Siegel Music: Rosalynn DeRoos & Neal Meyer
Road To Nowhere: Joan Laage [Kogut Butoh] Music: Masters of Ukranian Accordian, brYan, 10, Ewa Demarzyk
Day 2: November 6th, Saturday
Seattle Butoh Community Slide-Show (November 5th and 6th)
Photography: Briana Jones and Kaoru Okumura
Editing: Diana Garcia-Snyder
