Performances from each workshop will happen at the first Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square in the Vandenbrink Community Room in the Tashiro Kaplan building.
115 Prefontaine Pl. S.
Seattle, Wa 98104

Dress-rehearsal Tuesdays are in the Vandenbrink Community Room in the Tashiro Kaplan building.
115 Prefontaine Pl. S.
Seattle, Wa 98104

Workshops will be held at Universal Fitness Center
517 Main Street Seattle, WA 98104
(between 5th and 6th Aves., in Pioneer Square; sign on front door reads, "Universal Fitness Center")

First Thursday performance dates:
March 6th
April 3rd
May 1st

April 2008

Led by Dk on Tuesdays | Led by Maureen on Fridays Tuesdays and Fridays 7:00 - 9:00 pm $10.00 suggested donation per class April 4th - Classes start April 29th - Dress rehearsal May 1st Performance at TK VCR (5 - 10 Suggested donation) "bodies and memories. like the time you fell over backwards and saw the tarantula on the ceiling... or drowned with pennies in your pockets to weigh you down...or choose-your-own -adventure books eaten in an afternoon..." dk pan was born in Seoul, Korea (1972), moved to the US in 1976 with his family. His mother was born in Pyoungyang and his father was born in Seoul. dk works in the fields of performance, installation art, and media. He has performed throughout Europe, Japan, South Korea, and US, presenting solo works as well as with music & performance groups - Degenerate Art Ensemble and the Infernal Noise Brigade. His work has been supported by a number of government and foundation grants. In 1999, he co-founded an art & performance group, P.A.N., which has produced over 30 original works for theater, galleries, museums, festivals, and site-specific installations.

Maureen Freehill is dedicated to the revelation of soul through the body. She has performed and taught butoh, dance, theater and yoga for over 20 years. Her training includes an MFA in Directing Asian Performance and Yoga Teacher Certification. She lived in Japan, performed and studied with butoh founder Kazuo Ohno for nearly 5 years. She is regularly seen performing locally and tours internationally. In the recent past, Maureen was a full-time drama instructor and director of the Seattle Central Community College Drama Department. Maureen will focus this 4 week series on the heart as a powerul organ of perception and transformation. We will also investigate impermanence of the body (and all things) and how that relates to our butoh practice. This workshop will enhance any performance, creative, healing and artistic practices by exercising imagination and increasing energy flow to reveal hidden gifts of the soul through the body. We will cultivate capacity for freedom of movement, powerful presence and transformation. Read more about Maureen here.

 

March 2008

Led by Helen Thorsen on Tuesdays | Led by Alan Fridays Tuesdays and Fridays 7:00 - 9:00 pm $10.00 suggested donation per class March 7th - Classes start April 1st - Dress rehearsal April 3rd - Performance ($5.00 - $10.00 Suggested donation) Butoh thrives when the performer is able to occupy the intersection of complete surrender to the moment and complete mastery of that moment. Both of these modes must be explored fully in a non-performance setting for them to manifest in front of an audience. Class with Helen and Alan consists of exercises that instill, through sharing, the deep aesthetic of the butoh body, as well as longer journeys through landscapes of imaginative embodiment. Helen has danced since she was a little girl, in Seattle since 1983. She was a founding member of the Joan Laage's seminal troupe, Dappin Butoh. Alan began performing butoh in his forties and has danced with Dappin, PAN, the Degenerate Art Ensemble, and Death Posture.

February 2008

Led by Sheri on Tuesdays | Led by Vanessa on Fridays Tuesdays and Fridays 7:00 - 9:00 pm $10.00 suggested donation per class February 1st - Classes start March 4th - Dress rehearsal March 6th - Performance ($5.00 - $10.00 Suggested donation) Sheri found butoh in Seattle seven years ago, after 11 years of theatre and street performance. She found it satisfied her need to explore and express the place between words and dance inside her connection to her innermost self, the world, and the universe. She began serious study in San Francisco with Shinichi Momo Komo and has trained with numerous butoh masters since that time including Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, Akira Kasai, Minako Seki, Su-En, Joan Laage, and Jay Hirobashi.

Vanessa Skantze began performing spoken word in 1993, touring the U.S. with Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka. She premiered her solo piece "Eye of the Beholder" at Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments in New Orleans in 1996. In 1997, Vanessa founded Teatro de la Psychomachia, Theater of the Soul Struggle, whose name expresses the desire for liberation from self-perpetuated barriers that fetter and frustrate the experiential and expressive freedom of mind and body. Read more about Vanessa here.