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Highways presents:
An Evening of Global Butoh
Featuring world-renowned Butoh Master
Katsura Kan from Kyoto, Japan -- making his LA debut
with performances by
Corpus Delicti, LA-based butoh performance lab
Black Stone Ensemble from San Francisco.
Friday, May 25th + Saturday, May 26th
Show Time: 8:30pm
Ticket Price: $20.00 + $15.00 (Students/Seniors)
Highways Performance Space
1651 18th Street, Santa Monica
1/2 Block North of Olympic Blvd
Ticket Reservations: www.highwaysperformance.org
Ticket Info call: 310-315-1459
GO TO OUR WEB PRESS PAGE
(for online ticket reservations & more!)
www.jungle8.com/globalbutoh/
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Performance detail:
"Fable in Two"
Katsura Kan, with duet partner Gabrielle Daris
Live music by Francios Sardi
"Fable in Two" blends Butoh and Western dance. The work is characterized by improvisation, embodiment of character and striking visual images. It investigates ideas about humanity and the environment, the world of technology and nature, and the natural cycle of things. The viewers bring to the performance their own imagination, ideas and questions to find meaning for themselves in the images and ideas presented.
Katsura Kan, a native of Kyoto, is a Master Butoh artist from among the ranks of Japan's first generation of Butoh. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe, "Byakkosha" (1979-1981) known for its austerity and integrity, rather than the theatrical glamour other troupes became known for. He is a celebrated solo and collaborative performer as well as choreographer. Kan has worked with what he calls "minority dancers" all over the world, in remote locations throughout Africa, Europe and South East Asia for the past 28 years, in addition to his creative works in cosmopolitan culture. Currently, he is researching "Global BUTOH" in NYC and preparing the "ELDERLY" project taking place in the UK 2007.
"Mi Casa Es Su Casa"
Corpus Delicti, butoh performance lab
Alessandra Santos, Heyward Bracey,
Rosemary Candelario, Alvin Gaines-Molina
Directed by Joe Talkington - Soundscape by Rick Potts -
Lights by Gustavo Brum
From the personal to the transpersonal, "Mi Casa Es Su Casa" is an examination of outer war on inner territory. Mind over border.
Da'suqah ya da'suqah, tiri ba'da min al-bayat
Baytuki yahtarq wa atfaluki dhahbu ba'ida
"Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,
Your house in on fire and your children are gone.”
Corpus Delicti is a LA-based butoh performance company born out of the historical mass movement to oppose the U.S. Empire. Debuting on February 15th, 2003 with 25 performers - joining over 100,000 protestors in Hollywood for the largest Anti-War march in LA history. Since then, Corpus Delicti has moved with ease and acclaim between the street, the gallery, and the stage. Reflecting the diversity of audiences it attracts, the company has been invited to perform at REDCAT Theater, LACMA, NOH Space in SF, Highways Performance Space, Track 16 Gallery, Hollywood Forever's Annual Dia de los Muertos Festival, Theater of Note, UCLA & Occidental College. Corpus Delicti is the brainchild of Carla Melo & Joe Talkington. www.corpusbutoh.org
"I-Human"
Black Stone Ensemble
Allison Wyper, Bob Webb,
Iu-Hui Chua (guest artist), Misti Boettiger (guest artist)
iHuman explores our relationship with technology at a time when humanity is rapidly succeeding the upright animal homo sapien, and quickly evolving into the cyborgian posthuman.
Using a trans-disciplinary style rooted in physical theatre and Butoh dance, iHuman inhabits the "transhuman" ideology.
We find ourselves aliens on the frontier of new technology.
How do we make sense of what we find here? Of who we become?
How do we cope?
Black Stone Ensemble is a movement-based experimental performance company making original work that is taut, conceptual, stark, filmic, violent, sensuous, absurd, grotesque and recognizeably human. We critique common daily experience in acute relief; a bizarre burlesque of the contemporary moment. Founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Allison Wyper, San Francisco based Black Stone Ensemble’s trans-disciplinary performance style is derived from the artists’ varied backgrounds in Butoh dance, physical anddramatic theatre, Japanese Kyogen theater, Iyengar yoga, and the visual arts. Members of Black Stone Ensemble have performed with Kitsune Butoh Company (Boston), Pilgrim Theatre Research and Performance Collaborative (Boston) and David Dorfman Dance (NYC), and continue to perform in San Francisco and internationally with Koichi and Hiroko Tamano’s Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Company, and Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s La Pocha Nostra. WWW.BUTOHSF.ORG/BSE
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Additonal 'Global Butoh' Attractions:
"A Corpus Living Room"
An interactive, multi-media installation in Highways Gallery
2 Photo Exhibits:
- Corpus Delicti photo collage by Simone Missirian & Ana Baer-Carrillo
- Photos by Karolina Bieszczad, mixing butoh with classic paintings
Short films & video projections
by Troy Perry, Ana Baer-Carrillo & James Cui
An Evening of Global Butoh
Featuring world-renowned Butoh Master
Katsura Kan from Kyoto, Japan -- making his LA debut
with performances by
Corpus Delicti, LA-based butoh performance lab
Black Stone Ensemble from San Francisco.
Friday, May 25th + Saturday, May 26th
Show Time: 8:30pm
Ticket Price: $20.00 + $15.00 (Students/Seniors)
Highways Performance Space
1651 18th Street, Santa Monica
1/2 Block North of Olympic Blvd
Ticket Reservations: www.highwaysperformance.org
Ticket Info call: 310-315-1459
GO TO OUR WEB PRESS PAGE
(for online ticket reservations & more!)
www.jungle8.com/globalbutoh/
----------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Performance detail:
"Fable in Two"
Katsura Kan, with duet partner Gabrielle Daris
Live music by Francios Sardi
"Fable in Two" blends Butoh and Western dance. The work is characterized by improvisation, embodiment of character and striking visual images. It investigates ideas about humanity and the environment, the world of technology and nature, and the natural cycle of things. The viewers bring to the performance their own imagination, ideas and questions to find meaning for themselves in the images and ideas presented.
Katsura Kan, a native of Kyoto, is a Master Butoh artist from among the ranks of Japan's first generation of Butoh. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe, "Byakkosha" (1979-1981) known for its austerity and integrity, rather than the theatrical glamour other troupes became known for. He is a celebrated solo and collaborative performer as well as choreographer. Kan has worked with what he calls "minority dancers" all over the world, in remote locations throughout Africa, Europe and South East Asia for the past 28 years, in addition to his creative works in cosmopolitan culture. Currently, he is researching "Global BUTOH" in NYC and preparing the "ELDERLY" project taking place in the UK 2007.
"Mi Casa Es Su Casa"
Corpus Delicti, butoh performance lab
Alessandra Santos, Heyward Bracey,
Rosemary Candelario, Alvin Gaines-Molina
Directed by Joe Talkington - Soundscape by Rick Potts -
Lights by Gustavo Brum
From the personal to the transpersonal, "Mi Casa Es Su Casa" is an examination of outer war on inner territory. Mind over border.
Da'suqah ya da'suqah, tiri ba'da min al-bayat
Baytuki yahtarq wa atfaluki dhahbu ba'ida
"Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,
Your house in on fire and your children are gone.”
Corpus Delicti is a LA-based butoh performance company born out of the historical mass movement to oppose the U.S. Empire. Debuting on February 15th, 2003 with 25 performers - joining over 100,000 protestors in Hollywood for the largest Anti-War march in LA history. Since then, Corpus Delicti has moved with ease and acclaim between the street, the gallery, and the stage. Reflecting the diversity of audiences it attracts, the company has been invited to perform at REDCAT Theater, LACMA, NOH Space in SF, Highways Performance Space, Track 16 Gallery, Hollywood Forever's Annual Dia de los Muertos Festival, Theater of Note, UCLA & Occidental College. Corpus Delicti is the brainchild of Carla Melo & Joe Talkington. www.corpusbutoh.org
"I-Human"
Black Stone Ensemble
Allison Wyper, Bob Webb,
Iu-Hui Chua (guest artist), Misti Boettiger (guest artist)
iHuman explores our relationship with technology at a time when humanity is rapidly succeeding the upright animal homo sapien, and quickly evolving into the cyborgian posthuman.
Using a trans-disciplinary style rooted in physical theatre and Butoh dance, iHuman inhabits the "transhuman" ideology.
We find ourselves aliens on the frontier of new technology.
How do we make sense of what we find here? Of who we become?
How do we cope?
Black Stone Ensemble is a movement-based experimental performance company making original work that is taut, conceptual, stark, filmic, violent, sensuous, absurd, grotesque and recognizeably human. We critique common daily experience in acute relief; a bizarre burlesque of the contemporary moment. Founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Allison Wyper, San Francisco based Black Stone Ensemble’s trans-disciplinary performance style is derived from the artists’ varied backgrounds in Butoh dance, physical anddramatic theatre, Japanese Kyogen theater, Iyengar yoga, and the visual arts. Members of Black Stone Ensemble have performed with Kitsune Butoh Company (Boston), Pilgrim Theatre Research and Performance Collaborative (Boston) and David Dorfman Dance (NYC), and continue to perform in San Francisco and internationally with Koichi and Hiroko Tamano’s Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Company, and Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s La Pocha Nostra. WWW.BUTOHSF.ORG/BSE
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Additonal 'Global Butoh' Attractions:
"A Corpus Living Room"
An interactive, multi-media installation in Highways Gallery
2 Photo Exhibits:
- Corpus Delicti photo collage by Simone Missirian & Ana Baer-Carrillo
- Photos by Karolina Bieszczad, mixing butoh with classic paintings
Short films & video projections
by Troy Perry, Ana Baer-Carrillo & James Cui
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