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ButohKan Mayu is delighted to welcome two wonderful female performers in Vienna:Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh: Rivers Running Red
Tiziana Longo: Spaghetti
ABOUT JOAN LAAGE I KOGUT BUTOH & RIVERS RUNNING RED:
RIVERS RUNNING RED is a homage to the female body and menstruation. The piece is inspired by an article exposing the practice in certain traditional societies of sending women off to the mountains to remain in huts and, all too often not surviving the harsh conditions. This practice is fueled by the belief that women are unclean while menstruating. The piece is also a reflection on this monthly cycle being celebrated as a sacred passage in other cultures. RRR was first performed as a duet with Italian Butoh artist Kea Tonetti in Milan, then as a solo in Pontedera at Spazio NU, in Antagon theaterAKTion’s Winterwerft Festival in Frankfurt, in the Seattle Butoh Festival and in New York City produced by Vangeline.
Created & performed by Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh
Original musical score by Michael Shannon & Joey Largent
Costumes by Joan Laage & Shoko Zama
JOAN LAAGE studied under Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo in the late 80s and performed with Ashikawa’s group Gnome, one of very few non-Japanese to have this extraordinary opportunity. Returning to the US, she settled in Seattle and directed Dappin’ Butoh from 1990-2001. She is a co-founder of DAIPANbutoh Collective. Joan has performed at many festivals including the first New York butoh festival, Vangeline’s Women Defining Butoh Festival, Vienna’s Hybrid Butoh Festival and Paris’ En Chair et en Son Acousmatic Festival. She wrote a dissertation on the butoh body and is featured in Tanya Calamoneri’s Butoh America. She is an avid Tai Chi practitioner with a background in traditional Asian dance/theater and a professional gardener. Since living in Krakow 2004–2006, she has been known as Kogut (rooster).
MICHAEL SHANNON offers performance and recordings of his discoveries into the nature of sound's ontology through the use of strings and wind instruments (Asian, African, and western), electronics, field/studio recordings, and sound objects. Further research into innately occurring abstraction is presented in films and video. Michael’s contributions to the musical score include: erhu, dilruba, cello, sound objects, voice.
JOEY LARGENT's work focuses on exploring long-duration compositions and improvisations for acoustic ensembles and solo performance. Beyond generating music alone, his goal is to offer a space for introspection, releasing from attachment, beauty, and connection. He has collaborated with numerous dancers, musicians, and interdisciplinary artists over the years, and has studied North Indian Classical singing with several disciples of Pandit Pran Nath, primarily Michael Harrison and Rose Okada. Joey's contributions to the musical score include cello, voice, sheng, percussion, bowed cymbals and reed organ.
SHOKO ZAMA a Japanese visual artist living in Seattle. She started to study Butoh with Joan Laage in 2013. Since then, she has participated in many of Joan’s performances as a Butoh dancer and collaborated with her costumes. The white kimono costume in River Running Red was commissioned by Joan in 2019. “IROHA UTA”, a Japanese poem composed around the 11th century, which expresses impermanence of life, was calligraphed with sumi ink, and embellished with gold paint.
ABOUT TIZIANA LONGO & SPAGHETTI:
SPAGHETTI is an unique dance piece to experience and witness as a one-of-a-kind dance experience . A deep encounter with a shifted Body-Space-Time organism showcasesing the art of Butoh in a captivating, innovative and thought-provoking manner.
Daily reality converted into a surreal dimension becomes a dream where the human emotions melt into each other until the Zero root. There the transformation progresses and becomes change, innovation, absurdity in its full creative power.
The future succulent sauce to be tasted.
Buon Appetito!
The piece is a ritual which honours the hardships of life and convert them into Spaghetti.
It talks the search for liberation from societal' s structures, the cultivation of self-love and empowerment.
Concept, Dramaturgy, Dance: Tiziana Longo
TIZIANA LONGO is a choreographer, dancer and teacher, co-founder of the Motimaru Dance Company based in Berlin since 2010.
Her work ranges from Japanese Butoh dance, which she studied in Japan for five years, to movement dramaturgy and composition, in dialogue and contextualization between East and West.
On the multidisciplinary intersection of these performance disciplines, in 2021 she won the DisTanzSolo prize with, in progress, a book in completion.
From 2004 to 2009 she studied butoh with Yoshito Ohno, son of Kazuo Ohno, and worked with him as a dancer, stage assistant, and simultaneous interpreter of his workshops in Yokohama and on tours abroad.
In 2010, she left Japan to begin field research on local and traditional dances in Japan, India, Nepal, Spain and Bali, in search of a specific methodology for Eastern/Western dance and theatre and common principles for dancers and actors.
She studied modern, contemporary Balinese dance with Agun Anom Putra, I Made Djimat.
Since 2010 in Berlin she has performed and taught in:
Venice Biennale 2010, 9th International Choreography Competition "No Ballet", International Dance
Festival Lucky Trimmer 2016, University of Hildesheim, University of Leipzig, Academy of
Multimedia Arts Cologne, University of Oulu, etc., in Europe, Asia, Australia in over 35 cities.
Currently teaching in Tanzfabrik, Berlin
LIMITED SEATED - PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A RESERVATION!
Ticket prices:
Single Performance: 20€
Combined Ticket (both performances): 35€
Reservation: [email protected]
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tanzhotel, Zirkusgasse 35,Wien, Österreich, Austria
