Rivers Running Red: A Performance by Joan Laage / Kogut Butoh
Schedule
Sat Oct 19 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Salon Dreiklang | Berlin, BE
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Rivers Running Red [please note the time is 7:00 pm in Berlin]Created & performed by Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh
Original musical score by Michael Shannon & Joey Largent
Costumes by Joan Laage & Shoko Zama
Rivers Running Red is a homage to the female body and menstruation. The piece is inspired by
an article exposing the practice in certain traditional societies of sending women off to the
mountains to remain in huts and, all too often not surviving the harsh conditions. This practice
is fueled by the belief that women are unclean while menstruating. The piece is also a reflection
on this monthly cycle being celebrated as a sacred passage in other cultures. RRR was first
performed as a duet with Italian butoh artist KeaTonetti in Milan, then as a solo in Pontedera at
Spazio NU, in Antagon theaterAKTion’s Winterwerft Festival in Frankfurt, in the Seattle Butoh
Festival and in New York City produced by Vangeline.
Bio:
Joan Laage studied under Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo in the late 80s
and performed with Ashikawa’s group Gnome, one of very few non-Japanese to have this
extraordinary opportunity. Returning to the US, she settled in Seattle and directed Dappin’
Butoh from 1990-2001. She is a co-founder of DAIPANbutoh Collective. Joan has performed at
many festivals including the first New York butoh festival, Vangeline’s Women Defining Butoh
Festival, Vienna’s Hybrid Butoh Festival and Paris’ En Chair et en Son Acousmatic Festival. She
wrote a dissertation on the butoh body and is featured in Tanya Calamoneri’s Butoh America.
She is an avid Tai Chi practitioner with a background in traditional Asian dance/theater and a
professional gardener. Since living in Krakow 2004–2006, she has been known as Kogut
(rooster). www.seattlebutoh-laage.com; https://www.facebook.com/joan.laage
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Where is it happening?
Salon Dreiklang, Paul-Robeson-Straße 47, 10439 Berlin, Deutschland,Berlin, GermanyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
