Japanese Butoh Workshop with Master Daisuke Yoshimoto

The Vangeline Theater hosts Butoh master Daisuke Yoshimoto for a 3 - day workshop on June 16, 17 and 18, 2006. Daisuke Yoshimoto (Japan), integrates formal studies in theatre with extensive butoh training and multiple collaborations and co-creations with Kazuo Ohno, Hisayo Iwaki, Yukihiko Sakai among others. During the 1990's he performed and led workshops throughout Europe, as well as curated a butoh dance festival at the Grotowski Center in Poland.

Butoh is a form of contemporary dance born in Japan in 1950's. It strains against the influence of restrictive social tradition and gives an unprecedented freedom through artistic expression. Like Surrealism, the early butoh used the distortion of nature. Like Dada, butoh has used chance as a means for composition. Butoh is one of the boldest attempts to transmit the mysterious, often suppressed life of the unconscious through the interpersonal, public medium of theatre.

The Vangeline Theater is a Post Modern Butoh Dance troupe fostering a general appreciation of French, Japanese and European culture through performances and workshops. The company also offers Butoh classes to performers, members of the incarcerated population as well as the general public.

Date
June 16 (Fri) 5:30 - 10:30 PM
June 17 (Sat) 5:30 - 10:30 PM
June 18 (Sun) 5:30 - 10:30 PM

Place
Puffin Room
435 Broome Street between Crosby St and Broadway

Cost
$90/ day, 3 days $270

To Register
Yukari Koyama / The Vangeline Theater
vangelinetheater@yahoo.com

For more information:
www.vangeline.com