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Embodying the Spirit: The Body finds its Wayby Joan Laage / Kogut Butoh
This workshop is a process of erasing and re-creating the body through guided improvisation inspired by nature imagery and Ukiyoe prints.
Experience training methods towards a supple body and mind and investigate aesthetics common to butoh through creative explorations. ETS explores endless questions: What is life? What is the human condition? What is the body? In this workshop we will focus on imagery from the Earth Tomes Project, which has been performed in collaboration with local artists in Germany, Italy, England, Norway, an upstate New York residency and in the NW in Seattle and Port Townsend. Earth imagery – earth, trees, roots, stones – will be layered with explorations of the elemental body (water, wind, etc.) and animals as we celebrate the body as nature. Partner work will facilitate participants’ individual and collective journeys. The workshop draws from Joan’s training with Butoh Masters Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo and her background as a Tai Chi practitioner and professional gardener.
ABOUT:
Joan Laage / Kogut Butoh
After studying with Kazuo Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo in the late 80s and performing with Ashikawa’s group Gnome, Joan Laage settled in Seattle and directed Dappin’ Butoh from 1990-2001. She is a co-founder of DAIPANbutoh Collective, which produces an annual ButohFestival. Joan has performed at many festivals including the first New York Butoh Festival, in Vienna (2023) and at En Chair et en Son Acousmatic Festival in Paris (2022 and 2023) and was invited by Vangeline to present a solo in New York City in April 2022.
She has taught workshops and performed in Krefeld, Freiburg, Vienna, Basel, Oslo, Milan, Warsaw, London, and Liverpool and was a featured artist at the Winterwerft Festival in Frankfurt. A Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University, who wrote on the Butoh body and Certified Movement Analyst (NYC), she is featured in Sondra Fraleigh’s books and in Tanya Calamoneri’s Butoh America. She creates site-specific work for Seattle Japanese gardens annually and tours every winter in Europe. Since living in Krakow 2004–2006, she has been known as Kogut (rooster).
DATE:
03.05.2024, 16:00-21:00
04.05.2024, 11:00-18:00
LOCATION:
Tanz*Hotel I Art*Act
Zirkusgasse 35 I Studio 1
1020 Wien
FEE:
170€
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION:
Dani(ela)Manu
E: [email protected]
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tanzhotel, Zirkusgasse 35, 1020 Wien, Österreich,Wien, Österreich, Austria
