Noguchi Taiso | gentle release work with Gerry Morita
Schedule
Wed Oct 09 2024 at 01:00 pm to 02:30 pm
Location
9931- 78 Avenue, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Alberta | Edmonton, AB
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Noguchi Taiso | gentle release work with Gerry MoritaNoguchi Taiso is a Japanese form of bodywork which is one of the basis for butoh. It uses movements in the body connected to nature and imagination to find ease of flow and movement that reduces tension and increases flexibility.
CLASS INFO
Wednesdays from 1-2:30 PM
$15 drop-in
Mile Zero Dance, 9931-78 Avenue
CLASS SCHEDULE
Sept 18
Oct 9, 16, 23, 30
Nov 6, 13, 20, 27
About Gerry Morita:
Originally from rural Saskatchewan, Gerry Morita (BA Dance/ MFA Theatre. She has lived and worked in Vancouver, Montréal, and Tokyo as a dancer, choreographer, performance artist and teacher before moving to Edmonton and becoming Mile Zero Dance’s Artistic Director in 2006. Her work has toured Poland, Turkey, Estonia, Canada, and Japan.
Morita’s body of work involves continuous inquiry into new ways of seeing movement, the body, and the spaces between us. She studies and teaches contact improvisation, Noguchi Taiso and other somatic-based and improvising techniques, working with artists from all disciplines in a vast array of both conventional and site-specific venues. She has received the Mayor’s Award for Innovation in Artistic Direction, the Edmonton Salute for Excellence, Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund and was one of Alberta’s 25 Influential Artists recogn
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