Embodying the Spirit: the body finds its way / A two-day Butoh Workshop by Joan Laage / Kogut Butoh
Schedule
Sat Oct 19 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun Oct 20 2024 at 04:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Salon Dreiklang | Berlin, BE
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An Intensive Weekend in Berlin guided by Joan Laage,
a powerful female butoh dancer who studied with Yoko Ashikawa and danced in her group Gnome in Tokyo, one of the closest disciple of the founder, Tatsumi Hijikata. It is a rare occasion to have her in Germany. Carpe diem!
Workshop's description:
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 focus on imagery
from the Earth Tomes Project, which has been performed in collaboration with local artists in
Germany, Italy, England, Norway, an upstate New York residency and in the NW in Seattle and
Port Townsend. Earth imagery – earth, trees, roots, stones – will be layered with explorations of
the elemental body (water, wind, etc.) and animals as we celebrate the body as nature. Partner
work will facilitate participants’ individual and collective journeys. The workshop draws from
Joan’s training with butoh masters and her background as a Tai Chi practitioner and
professional gardener.
About Joan Laage:
Residing in Seattle WA for many years, Joan/Kogut is known as the Northwest butoh pioneer. She is one
of the few non-Japanese to study with and dance under Yoko Ashikawa in her Tokyo-based group
Gnome in the late 80s. She also studied with Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno. Joan has performed and taught at
many festivals including the first New York butoh festival, Vienna’s Hybrid Butoh Festival (2023), Paris
Butoh Festival (Tenri) and En Chair et en Son Acousmatic Festival in Paris (2022 and 2023). Joan was
invited by Vangeline to present a solo in New York City in April 2022 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, she is featured in Tanya Calamoneri’s Butoh America. Since living in Krakow 2004–2006, she has
been known as Kogut (rooster).
Registration: [email protected]
Fee: Early Bird until 1st September 200 Euro
Full price 220 Euro
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Where is it happening?
Salon Dreiklang, Paul-Robeson-Straße 47, 10439 Berlin, Deutschland,Berlin, GermanyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
