Unveiling Seattle Butoh festival 2023
YAW Theater 6520 5th Ave S
6520 5th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108, USA
Washington
47.5448574
-122.32806
Description
DAIPANbutoh Collective presents Seattle Butoh Festival 2023: Unveiling at Georgetown’s YAW Theater on November 17-19. San Francisco-based Shinichi Iova-Koga and Asheville (NC)-based Julie Becton Gillum, our guest artists, will teach workshops and perform as well as DAIPAN members over three days. DAIPAN has been producing this annual festival since its founding in 2010, which offers dedicated and new audiences an opportunity to witness and study this sometimes enigmatic and intriguing global performance genre.
Friday Night Performances
Julie Becton Gillum, Shinichi lova-Koga, Dhyana Garcia
Saturday Night Performances
Helen Thorsen with Mary Cutrera and Cara Ross Berman, Kaoru Okumura, Joan Laage and Julie Becton Gillum (duet)
Sunday Night Perfromances
Robyn Bjornston, Hank Logan and Clare Casey, Alycia Scott Zollinger, Shinichi lova-Koga
November 18 (Saturday): 11-4 pm Workshop with Shinichi
Butoh: Deconstruct the Darkness Workshop: Exercises develop energy-efficient motion and connectivity to build clarity and stability. With this foundation, enter the chaotic stream of life. Become wild. Let go. Enter an unknown world. Build the strength to allow weakness. Dance belongs to mystery.
Shinichi Iova-Koga serves as the Artistic Director of the physical theater and dance company inkBoat, founded by Shinichi in 1998. He has toured in North America, Europe, South Korea, and Japan, often collaborating with local artists in museums, theaters, studios, and site-specific locations. He is a contributing writer to “The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance.” In “Old Man Imitates a Cloud” Shinichi performs the boundary between the tangible and intangible manifestations of a life, adopting and shedding identities until only patterns of sound and movement remain.
November 19 (Sunday): 11-4 pm workshop with Julie
Butoh Workshop: Noguchi Taiso has been adopted by many butoh, dance and theatre practitioners in Japan especially for its ability to empty the body of various learned, superficial, and culturally derived patterns of behavior, making it more transparent, aligning it with the more universal forces that are at play.
Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of the Asheville Butoh Festival (14 years running), has been creating, performing, and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico for over 40 years. Julie's work has been influenced by extensive study with mentors: Mari Osanai, Diego Pinon, Natsu Nakajima, Anzu Furukawa, Yoshito Ohno and Seisaku, and she is known as a very experienced teacher of Noguchi Taiso. Julie will join DAIPAN’s Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh in “A Tear in the Sky,” a new duet reflecting this chaotic world with rays of intermittent sunshine.
“The materials that constitute our bodies are undoubtedly of this earth and have participated in and experienced the creation process . . . Our body, living here and now, includes the history of the earth.”
Michizo Noguchi
DAIPAN is supported by our fiscal sponsor Shunpike, Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and 4Culture
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Category
Performances
Tickets
Student/Senior per performance
20.0
USD
27
Friday performance
25.0
USD
60
Saturday Performance
25.0
USD
55
Sunday Performance
25.0
USD
60
Performance Pass all 3 performances
60.0
USD
20
Sunday Workshop
90.0
USD
2
Saturday Workshop
95.0
USD
1
Workshop Combo Sat & Sun
150.0
USD
1
Full Festival Pass for all events
190.0
USD
1
