Radical Resonance - A workshop in Butoh Dance
Schedule
Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 10:30 am to Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
251 Avenue des Pins O, Montréal, QC H2W 1R5, Canada | Montreal, QC
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Dearest Artist Community, Cher.e.s Artistes,MAISON SOMA-BUTÔ HAUS et SPY&DNY
ont le plaisir de vous inviter à un atelier de 3 jours avec l'exceptionnelle et de renom, Julie Becton Gillum.
Cet atelier sera dirigé en anglais, avec des possibilités de traductions en français.
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Ouvert à TOUSTES les créatifs et aux curieux ! / Open to ALL creatives and the curious!
Cost/Coût: 3 days/ jours: 180$ CAN (132$ US)
per day /par jour: 75$ CAN (55$ US)
Sched/Horaire:
Vendr/ Friday:10h30-17h
SAT-SUN/ SAM-DIM : 13h-20h
With breaks and
possibility to work outdoors if the weather is good.
Avec pauses et la possibilité d'expérimenter dehors s'il fait beau.
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Radical Resonance a Workshop in Butoh Dance
During the workshops, participants will explore movement and stillness by investigating the body's natural anatomical potential, including floating, hanging, and using strings.
Exercises from Noguchi Taiso water body practice and aspects of butoh will help remove customary societal and cultural behaviors, guiding dancers toward bodily emptiness.
Without the constraints of old habits, the unconscious body can respond freely to sensations, forces, and emotional states, becoming a fully expressive body.
Dancers will be instructed in lessons to expand their range of movements, including subtle, unrestrained, fading, animal, and revolutionary styles.
Biography:
Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of the 14-year-running Asheville Butoh Festival, has been creating, performing, and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico for over 40 years. She has practiced butoh for 27 years.
Gillum was awarded the 2008-09 North Carolina Choreography Fellowship and used the funds to travel to Japan to study Butoh.
Julie has recently returned from training and performing in Japan with butoh masters Katsura Kan, Saga Kobayashi, Moe Yamamoto, Mari Osanai, Seisaku, and Yuri Nagaoka. Julie performed her own choreography as well as that of the butoh masters. On February 18, she performed with Katsura Kan at a festival in Kyoto at the URBANGUILD; March 30, Julie performed with Moe Yamamoto in Kanazawa, Japan. On April 19 she performed at the Aomori Cultural Arts Center and Chuo Simin Cultural Center in Aomori Japan with Mari Osanai.
Since 2019, Gillum has been active in India, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Mexico, and the USA. Recent performances at the Amsterdam Butoh Festival (October 2023), Seattle Butoh Festival (November 2023), NYU Abu Dhabi Art Museum (February 2024), UNFIX Festival in NYC (May 2024) were well received.
Photo: Sandee Johnson
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