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Awakening InterArts: we, the trees, the atmosphereworkshop with Diane Butler
in Point Reyes, California
Friday evening 17 June thru Sunday 19 June 2022
Art Human Nature gathering, Sun. 19 June 2022 afternoon
This 10-hour AWAKENING INTERARTS: WE, THE TREES, THE ATMOSPHERE workshop for dance/movement, theater, music and architecture/environmental design students and practitioners is inspired by two principles from biodiversity preservation. One is that trees and plants are the lungs of the world, which maintain the air that we and other living creatures breathe. Another is the part-to-whole connection of the ‘small world, micro-cosmos’ of the human body with the ‘large world, macro-cosmos’.
Diane will guide practice in outdoor sites based on daily life postures and solo movement improvisation to explore the diverse qualities of our physical roots, trunk and limbs. We will then create small group art constellations; transforming in relation to the pulse of life in the surrounding ecosystem as a dialogue of we, the trees, and the atmosphere.
-- Contact Hours: 10 hours
-- Workshop Fee: US $90
-- max. 15 people (including part-timers)
-- Inquiries and to Register:
Diane Butler – awakeningartworkshops (at) gmail (dot) com
co-organizer, Claire Burns – clairedburns (at) gmail (dot) com
-- Schedule and locations:
Fri., 17 June 2022
5:00 to 8:00 pm in a studio garden in Inverness
Sat., 18 June 2022
8:30 to 11:30 am and 2:00 to 4:00 pm in a grove in Point Reyes
Sun., 19 June 2022
8:30 to 10:30 am in a grove in Point Reyes
and
Art Human Nature gathering 2:00 to 6:00 pm
-- Accommodation:
Participants cover their own lodgings, food, transportation, and park entry costs; information on rideshares, camping sites, hostel and airbnb is available
-- Covid-19 Protocols:
All participants and visiting artists should be fully vaccinated. We invite you to take a PCR Test 2 to 3 days prior to arrival. Outdoor practice and presentation sites will be mask optional spaces; if maskless sensitivity to physical distance is recommended.
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ART HUMAN NATURE gathering to herald the June Solstice is a public program initially held on the 21 June Solstice 2001 in Bolinas, California co-organized by Dharma Nature Time, Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo and Tamalpa Institute. Continued as an annual program of Dharma Nature Time, the gathering is for exchanges between dance-movement and somatic practitioners and artists of other mediums; to share histories, approaches and creative work in relation to nature, humanness and art. This 19 JUNE 2022 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm in Point Reyes, visiting artists are welcome to join, witness workshop presentations and share brief artistic presentations.
-- RSVP for Art Human Nature to:
dharmanaturetime (at) gmail (dot) com
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Diane Butler, Ph.D., is a dance-movement artist, teacher, and cultural program director who has collaborated with traditional and contemporary artists from diverse cultures and faiths in the Americas, Europe, and Asia for 37 years and since 2001 resided in the villages of Bedulu and Tejakula in Bali, Indonesia. She co-initiated with Suprapto Suryodarmo a cooperative international foundation, Dharma Nature Time, with members in eight nations that carry out activities to support interculture in cultural environments through sharing in the arts, religiosity and nature. Diane is also an alumna of the 2011 UNITAR World Heritage Training held in Japan. In the 1980s, she lived in New York City and assisted and performed in site-specific dance works by Ruby Shang with American, Asian, and European artists in the USA, France, Japan and UK. In the 1990s, she served as an Associate Professor, Founding Chair of InterArts Studies, and Director of Dance/Movement Studies at Naropa University in Colorado and Assistant Director of the 2000 and Director of the 2001 Naropa Study Abroad program in Bali. She holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School; MALS in Dance & Culture from Wesleyan University; and is the first non-Indonesian to earn a Ph.D. in Kajian Budaya (Cultural Studies) from Universitas Udayana, Bali where in 2014 she was appointed as a volunteer Associate Professor. Diane has been leading Awakening InterArts workshops since 1997.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Point Reyes National Seashore, 1 Bear Valley Rd,Point Reyes Station,CA,United States