Diego Pinon's Ritual Mexicano Open Three-DayWorkshop

For all people interested in the transformation of energy through dance

Friday, September 21, 5 - 9pm
Saturday & Sunday, September 22 & 23, 10am - 5pm

Chamber Theatre/Dance Space
915 E Pine (4th floor of Odd Fellow's Building)
Seattle, WA

$295 before August 1, 2007 / $320 after

To register, email Diana Garcia-Snyder: diana@dgsprojects.com
For details and information, email Diana or Sheri Brown:
sheribrown@gmail.com

Diego offers an open and integrated view into the realm of Butoh Mexicano Ritual Dance. In his unique style of teaching, Diego incorporates over 25 years of experience and practice in the fields of Mexican energetic traditions, Japanese Butoh, ritual dance, contemporary modern dance and
theatre. Diego has developed techniques that stimulate, open and recapture energy from the body and senses. He guides in how to use perception, imagination and creativity to develop personal dances from individual experiences. Butoh Mexicano Ritual Dance, is physically challenging and
intense. Diego uses the body to awaken sensitivity and vital energy to transform the limitation we normally percieve in ourselves. This transformation then propels us to new places in our bodies' capacity to dance. The workshop techniques and exercises provide focus, center and balance with clear directions and intentions with which to move the body.

sheri brown butoh

His Butoh Mexicano Ritual Dance Workshop Includes:

• Stimulating body work that incorporates intense warm ups that circulate energy also using breath and sound.
• Explorations of the environment outside through communal and internal connections.
• An emphasis on personal explorations using the energies of the group and the space that allow for personal impulses to "speak" with the unconscious to expose human and natural qualities through dance.

• Explorations of physical conditions to expand and suspend energy through the breath.
• Stretches using the use the center core for balance.
• Excersises that stimulate and open energetic centers, that provoke and allow the expression of different impulses.
• A training of the senses, perceptions, imagination, and consciousness that open the internal spaces, sensations, feelings, and extreme energetic levels.
• An exchange with a communtiy.
• Support of a personal and ritual dance.
• Creating and energetic exchange the with an audience.

 

Aloha! - Joan Laage one-day workshop August 27

Announcing a special one-day opportunity to study with Joan Laage, the very special woman who brought butoh to Seattle years ago!
Though Joan now lives in Korea, she will be passing through Seattle soon for a few days and will be offering a four-hour intensive at the Chamber Theatre on Capitol Hill Monday August 27 from 5:30 - 9:30pm. Fee is $40. (More information about Joan and her butoh below.)
To register and/or get further details, please email Sheri Brown.

Embodying The Spirits explores questions: What is the human condition? What is the body? How can we experience infinity in the body? We will concentrate on the marriage of mind, body, and image within Butoh aesthetics beginning with recalling the consciousness of our cellular body and our primal roots. ETS is based on Joan's Butoh training, her Laban/Bartenieff, Tai Chi, and Yoga background, and observances of nature. The training involves vigorous warm-ups, breath and energy exercises, exploration of the body as a fetus with developmental patterning, and primarily nature imagery. Through continual transformation we move from chaos to form.

Joan Laage studied under Butoh masters Ohno Kazuo and Ashikawa Yoko, and performed with Ashikawa's group Gnome while living in Tokyo in the late 1980s. She first saw Butoh in 1982 in Tokyo. Founded in 1991, Dappin' Butoh had its debut performance in Seattle, Washington in 1991. Since then, as a soloist and with her company, Joan has performed widely in the USA including the Paris, New York, San Francisco and Seattle Butoh Festivals, as well as in Europe, New Zealand, and in Asia. Joan is featured in Sondra Horton Fraleigh's book, Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh Zen & Japan . She moved to Jinju in September 2006, and frequently performs at festivals in Korea.