Corporeal Reformation: Butoh Explorations and Body as Phenomenon (Workshop)

Corporeal Reformation: Butoh Explorations and Body as Phenomenon

Featuring live musical accompainiment by Nicki Chen

Remembering is a form of empowerment. As it pertains to this experience that includes the body the term corporeal reformation is used. It is a way of saying at this moment my body needs a reevaluation, a reorganizing, a re-shifting that is deep and spiritual. A remembering of something that came before that is so embedded in ourselves that it is a part of well being. It is a daily practice that by no means will be complete.

Artist divinebrick (josie j) is a self iconoclast search for the sacred primordial being. divinebrick name is a placeholder for an idea that the self is a divine phenomenon holding and care taking the grander whole. Decolonizing the self is the remembering of the soil the self is made of. The name “josie j” is the further erasure of the colonized self accepted for autonomy.

In 2010 josie j began studies in dance with Koichi and Hiroko Tamano. The Tamano’s are Berkeley based Butoh Masters, once students of Tatsumi Hijikata.

josie j has also studied movement with Oguri In Venice, Ca. Oguri being a greatly influential dancer in josie j’s style. While in San Francisco working with the Tamanos josie j worked with performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena, who works in a Psycho Magic style.

Gung Fu and Tai Chi practice is also influential in josie j’s corporeal explorations. Studying these Chinese ancient medicines with James Ibrao, from 2013 till his passing in 2020. Sifu James Ibrao was a martial arts legend living in Los Angeles, CA.

Visual, sound, video and craft arts are also mediums that often are used in josie j’s work.

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About Nicki Chen:

Hi I'm Nicki.

Music is my homing signal, reaching out to old souls and those ready to look within. This is my way of searching for soulmates.

I’m a violist that uses improvisation to embrace instability and search for forgotten experiences and hidden energy. 

I love spontaneous improvisation with people I have never met before. This special energy of familiarity and the myth of a stranger fuels something beautiful and exhilarating with each new experience. Themes of home, community, loneliness, and perseverance also drive my sound but I also acknowledge and enjoy that often people have different ways of relating to my work in a way that would be the most healing or cathartic for them.

I invite the audience to join me in surrendering to the process of peeling back armor to reveal raw emotions without fear of judgment or imperfection.

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No one turned away for lack of funds. All experiences welcomed. Keep up to your body's ability. Ticket Price: $55 (sliding scale is available)

Please email [email protected] or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.

WAIVER AND RELEASE OF LIABILITY

By registering for this event, the attendee agrees to and acknowledges the following: I hereby represent that I am in good health and able to engage in physical exercise, be it active or passive. I understand that it is my responsibility to consult with a physician prior to and regarding my participation in a "Butoh workshop". I represent and warrant that I have no medical condition which would prevent my full participation in a Butoh workshop.

I understand that this class (“Corporeal Reformation: Butoh workshop”) may include physical activity, meditation, breathwork, and the use of essential oils, and the use of the facilities at Philosophical Research Society (“PRS”), may involve the risk of injury. I voluntarily accept full responsibility for my participation in Butoh workshop, and I expressly waive and release any claim that I may have at any time for injury, damage or loss of any kind against the facilitator josie j or PRS, or any person or entity involved with the facilitator or PRS, including without limitation their respective affiliates and representatives.

To the extent that statute or case law does not prohibit releases for negligence, this release is also for negligence on the part of the facilitator and PRS, and their respective agents and employees. In the event that I should require medical care or treatment, I agree to be financially responsible for any costs incurred as a result of such treatment.

In the event that any damage to equipment or facilities occurs as a result of my or my guest’s willful actions, neglect or recklessness, I acknowledge and agree to be held liable for any and all costs associated with any actions of neglect or recklessness.

I acknowledge that I have carefully read this Waiver and Release and fully understand that it is a release of liability.

ACCESSIBILITY

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REFUND POLICIES

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In the event that PRS is forced to cancel an event entirely, tickets will be refunded or vouchers offered for a rescheduled event.

PARKING

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States