Kiahkeya Butoh Workshop with Atsushi Takenouchi July 28th &29th in NYC!
KIAHKEYA PRESENTS:
IMPROVISTATIONAL BUTOH SPIRIT
DANCE WORKSHOP / INTENSIVE NYC
By Master Butoh Spirit Dancer ATSUSHI TAKENOUCHI & Musical accompaniment by HIROKO KOMIYA www.jinen-butoh.com
Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of JULY 2007
Time: 1-8pm both days (14 hours total)
Open Level / For dancers, actors, performers and more.
For Class: Bring SNACKS and WATER for during breaks
Workshop Website: www.resonant-wave.net/dance2007
AT: Battery Dance Space, New York City
Address: 380 Broadway, 5th Floor Manhattan
SIGN UP & Pre-Registration: DEADLINE July 18:
Complete Workshop (14 hours) $170 Deposit $80 payable by check or cash before July 18th
One Day Workshop (7 hours) $90 Deposit $50 payable by check or cash before July 18th
Late Registration:
Complete Workshop (14 hours) $220 after July 18th
One Day Workshop (7 hours) $110 after July 18th
Send Check Deposit To: KiahKeya, 707 Lorimer Street, #4, Brooklyn, NY 11211 INFO or Questions at: Telephone: 718-387-8680 Email: workshops@kiahkeya.com
ATSHUSHI TAKENOUCHI
Biography
Atsushi Takenouchi joined Butoh dance company"Hoppo-Butoh-ha" in Hokkaido in 1980. His last performancewith the company "Takazashiki" (1984) was worked on byButoh-founderTatsumi Hijikata. He has been working on his own Jinen Butoh since 1986 andcreated solos "Tanagokoro", "Ginkan", "ltteki" as a universal expression of nature, earth and ancient times and his impression of themoment, formulated from the people around him, and the environment. Atsushi has danced at sights such as the Killing Fields in Cambodia, Kobe earthquake,Auschwitz-Birkenau, sacred temples around the world, thousands of year old trees, and desolate environments in Asia, Brazil , Eastern Europe.Atsushi has been touring Japan, Asia and Europe extensively in the lastdecades. Since 2002 he has taught wilderness dance workshops in the US , and collaborated with dancersand actors in Europe and the United States. He currently lives in Paris.
Dancing Life
"Dance is devotion of life." I learned this while mytraveling nature fields called JINEN. This means I should dance to "my life," to the moment, and to now which lasts forever. I feel we have forgottenmemories of days when we lived connected with nature's gift (such as water, wind, grass, trees, and animals). A long time ago we danced, forgetting day andnight. We forgot ourselves, and became just as one life with the earth? What about now? We've been choreographed to fit into given pattern.
Improvisation "It's a dance without choreography. You dance as you feel,sharpening your senses, with conviction. You can't improvise unless you can enjoy what you are doing and act alive. Sometimes we may looklike two dragons, or two jellyfish talking with each other, the moon and the sun, or two dancing cranes in love. We all have the blood of anative and spiritual dancer."
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