ButohWORKSHOP 'Embodying the Spirit: the body finds its way' by Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh
Schedule
Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 10:30 am
UTC+02:00Location
Tanzhotel | Wien, WI
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This workshop is a process of erasing and re-creating the body through guided improvisation inspired by nature imagery.Experience training methods towards a supple body and mind and investigate aesthetics common to butoh through creative explorations. ETS explores endless questions: What is life? What is the human condition? What is the body? In this workshop we will embody the natural elements: wind, water, earth, etc. and focus on the body composed of these elements and various materials: wood, glass, stone, etc. Mixing human and animal forms and energies we will explore evolution and de-evolution leading to continual transformation. Partner work will facilitate participants’ individual and collective journeys.
The workshop draws from Joan’s training with Butoh Masters Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo and her background as a Tai Chi practitioner and professional gardener.
About Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh
After studying with Kazuo Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo in the late 80s and performing with Ashikawa’s group Gnome, JOAN LAAGE settled in Seattle and directed Dappin’ Butoh from 1990-2001. She is a co-founder of DAIPANbutoh Collective, which produces an annual butoh festival.
Joan has performed at many festivals including the first New York butoh festival, at the Hybrid Butoh Vienna Art Festival (2023) and Paris’ En Chair et en Son Acousmatic Festival in Paris (2022 and 2023) and was invited by Vangeline to present a solo in New York City in April 2022.
She has taught workshops and performed in Krefeld, Freiburg, Vienna, Basel, Oslo, Milan, Warsaw, London, and Liverpool and was a featured artist at the Winterwerft Festival in Frankfurt.
A Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University, who wrote on the butoh body and Certified Movement Analyst (NYC), she is featured in Sondra Fraleigh’s books and in Tanya Calamoneri’s Butoh America.
She creates site-specific work for Seattle Japanese gardens annually and tours every winter in Europe.
Since living in Krakow 2004–2006, she has been known as Kogut (rooster).
Date:
11.&12.10.2025, 10:30-17:00
Open for everyone!
Location:
Tanz*Hotel I Studio 1
Zirkusgasse 35, 1020 Wien, Austria
Fee:
EUR 180
If you would like to get to know Joan’s choreographic work and perform with her on October 18th, you may attend additional classes:
14.10.2025, 18:45-20:45
15.10.2025, 17:00-20:00
16.10.2025, 15:00-18:00
Please bring some different white clothes that you may use as costumes.
Additional Fee: EUR 100
Remark: We heartily welcome you for the workshop 11th & 12. October only but it is not possible to take part at the additional dates alone.
Registration: [email protected]
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Where is it happening?
Tanzhotel, Zirkusgasse 35,Wien, Österreich, AustriaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
