Death Posture, Butoh, Sound Experiments @ Christoff Gallery, Georgetown, 12/8, 8:30pm (events » live music) Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 8:30 PM 28 RSVPs >
> > On Saturday night, 12/8, 8:30pm, there will be a
> butoh
> > > dance/improvised music event entitled Wind of
> > Bones
> > > at the Christoff Gallery in Georgetown, 6004
> 12th
> > > Ave South. Featuring performances by:
> > >
> > > Briana Chittenden-- butoh Noise Poet Nobody
> > > sound
> > >
> > > Death Posture butoh celadon/natasatan and
> Noise
> > > Poet Nobody sound
> > >
> > > Sheri Brown and Lin Lucas butoh Rosalynn de
> > > Roos and Monica Shley sound
> > >
> > > Alan Sutherland butoh In the Deep Museum
> sound
> > >
> > > admission is $5 21 and over
> > >
> > > hope to see you
> > > take care
> > >
> > > Vanessa
> > >
> >
> >
> > www.myspace.com/deathposture www.deathposture.org
> > people.tribe.net/deathposture-alexruhe
> > inthedeepmuseum.com/
> > maia-arts.com/music/
> > www.xaxiswye.com/noisepoet...y/home.htm
> > www.myspace.com/billhorist
> > www.myspace.com/voxvespertine
> >
> >

Death Posture Presents: FLOOD, Jan 19, 8pm (events » live music) Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 8:00 PM 28 RSVPs greetings to you here is notice of our next
> > offering-- please forward extravagantly-- and we
> > hope to see you there
> >
> > Vanessa
> >
> >
> > Death Posture presents a new butoh performance
> work,
> > FLOOD, at the Chapel performance space at Good
> > Shepherd Center in Wallingford on January 19th.
> >
> > Dancer Vanessa Skantze lived in New Orleans for
> over
> > a decade, where she cofounded the ensemble Death
> > Posture in 2001. Less than a year after her
> arrival
> > in Seattle to join her dance partner Alex Ruhe,
> > Katrina fell upon the Gulf Coast. Vanessa began
> > conceiving of this piece after her first return to
> > New Orleans in July 2006. FLOOD journeys through
> > invocations of the spirit of the land and the city
> > of New Orleans with all her revelry and anguish,
> as
> > well as imagery drawn from the catastrophe of the
> > storm and the wrenching loss and devastation in
> its
> > wake. FLOOD is danced by Death Posture (Vanessa
> > Skantze and Alex Ruhe), Sheri Brown, Helen
> Thorsen,
> > Azrael, and Lin Lucas. Original score is created
> by
> > celadon and natazatan of In the Deep Museum along
> > with percussionist Dean Moore.
> >
> > Saturday, January 19th at 8 p.m.
> >
> > The Chapel performance space at Good Shepherd
> Center
> > in Wallingford
> > 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. near 50th
> >
> > $5- $15 donation
> >
> > www.deathposture.org
> >
> >
> >
> > www.deathposture.org
> >
> >
>
> www.myspace.com/deathposture www.deathposture.org
> people.tribe.net/deathposture-alexruhe
> inthedeepmuseum.com/
> maia-arts.com/music/
> www.xaxiswye.com/noisepoet...y/home.htm
> www.myspace.com/billhorist
> www.myspace.com/voxvespertine


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Seattle Butoh Classes Feb-April (events » arts) Friday, February 1, 2008 - 7:00 PM 29 RSVPs Butoh is Back! Regular butoh studies resume on February 1st at Tashiro Kaplan Artists Lofts in Pioneer Square. All levels are welcome to participate. Share in this unique opportunity to study with some of Seattle's most seasoned and devoted butoh practitioners*. Drop-ins welcome; regular participation is strongly encouraged however, especially for those interested in participating in the culminating performances.

$10.00 suggested donation per session.
Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, 115 Prefontaine Pl. S. (between 3rd and 4th Ave. S and Washington St.
For more information, please contact Sheri Brown at sheribrown@gmail.com or 206.940-6078.

February

Led by Sheri Brown* on Tuesdays | Led by Vanessa Skantze, A. Ruhe* on Fridays

February 1st - Sessions start
March 4th - Dress rehearsal
March 6th - Performance

March
Led by Helen Thorsen* on Tuesdays | Led by Alan Sutherland* Fridays

March 7th - Sessions start
April 1st - Dress rehearsal
April 3rd - Performance

April
Led by dk pan* on Tuesdays | Led by Maureen Freehill* on Fridays

April 4th - Sessions start
April 29th - Dress rehearsal
May 1st Performance at TK VC

*For more information on study session facilitators, please visit www.sheribrown.com/workshops.htm
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seattle butoh classes: Update: New Location (events » arts) Monday, February 4, 2008 - 7:00 PM 29 RSVPs New Location !Seattle Butoh Study 2008 - February through April!
Bingo, Baby!

NEW LOCATION:
Nova Alternative High School drama room (wood floors!)
2410 E. Cherry St.
(off of 23rd and Cherry, in the Central District, right across from Garfield High)
7-9 pm

> Butoh is Back!
>Regular butoh studies have resumed!
>All levels are welcome to participate.
> Share in this unique opportunity to
> study with some of
> Seattle's most seasoned and devoted butoh
> practitioners*. Sessions are Tuesday and Friday evenings from 7 - 9 pm.
>Drop-ins welcome;
> regular participation is strongly encouraged
> however, especially for those
> interested in participating in the culminating
> performances.
>
> $10.00 suggested donation per session.

NEW LOCATION:
Nova Alternative High School drama room (wood floors!)
2410 E. Cherry St.
(off of 23rd and Cherry, in the Central District, right across from Garfield High)

LOCATION ONLY FOR FIRST THURSDAY PERFORMANCES AND DRESS REHEARSAL SESSIONS (Mar. 4, Apr. 3, & Apr. 29)
> Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, 115 Prefontaine Pl. S.
> (between 3rd and 4th
> Ave. S and Washington St.


> For more information, please contact Sheri Brown at
> sheribrown@gmail.com or
> 206.940-6078.
>
> February
>
> Led by Sheri Brown* on Tuesdays | Led by
> Vanessa Skantze* on Fridays
>
> *February 1st* - Sessions start at NOVA ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL
> > *March 4th* - Dress rehearsal at TK VCR
> > *March 6th* - Performance at TK VCR
> >
> > March
> > Led by Helen Thorsen* on Tuesdays | Led by
> Alan Sutherland* Fridays *March
> > 7th* - Sessions start at NOVA ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL
> > *April 1st* - Dress rehearsal at TK VCR
> > *April 3rd* - Performance at TK VCR
> >
> > April
> > Led by dk pan* on Tuesdays | Led by Maureen
> Freehill* on Fridays *April
> > 4th* - Sessions start at NOVA ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL
> > *April 29th* - Dress rehearsal at TK VCR
> > May 1st Performance at TK VCR
> >
> > *For more information on study session
> facilitators, please visit
> > www.sheribrown.com/workshops.htm
> > ---------------------------------------


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Death Posture Presents: Lucifer, 8pm, March 8, 15 & 16 (events » live music) Saturday, March 8, 2008 - 8:00 PM 31 RSVPs LUCIFER: a harrowing performance by Vanessa Skantze
March 8, 15, & 16 at the Chamber Theater at Velocity, Seattle

Seattleperformance artist Vanessa Skantze will present a new interpretation ofher emotionally charged piece Lucifer on March 8, 15, and 16 at theChamber Theater on Capitol Hill. Combining movement and voice withsound accompaniment, Lucifer embodies the anguish and joy of carnalityat its most extreme – a being of light willingly becoming flesh.

Lucifercombines movement, voice, and song with a soundscape created byVanessa’s bandmates celadon (bass, electronics) and natazatán (guitar)of In the Deep Museum. Vanessa recreates Lucifer’s descent from thepurity of light to darkness and flesh unclothed, wearing only bodypaint.

Performance details:

- Sat. March 8, Sat. March 15, & Sun. March 16
- Chamber Theater, 915 East Pine Street in Seattle
- Doors will open at 8 p.m. and the show will begin at 8:30
- A $10 - $20 donation is requested.

Luciferis based on Vanessa’s radical reading of Milton, informed by nearly sixyears of intense butoh dance training and performance and voiceexperimentation. The piece joyously renounces the opium of heaven for arealm of raw sensuality that simultaneously tears and feeds the soul ineach moment.

Vanessa performed Lucifer in Brooklyn, New York andBarcelona, Spain in May 2007 as part of a brief European tour. Sheoriginally presented Lucifer at Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments in NewOrleans in 2001 with her creative partner Alex Ruhe. “The essence ofthe piece which compelled me to return to it is the willing descentinto the flesh, which is my chosen instrument. As a butoh dancer myart is a kind of willed possession, my body constantly transforminginto energies/elements/creatures.”

Vanessa is amulti-disciplinary artist whose work embraces butoh dance, voice,percussion, writing, and spoken word performance, along with metal andstone sculpture. She has practiced and taught butoh dance since 2001when she co-founded the ensemble Death Posture in New Orleans withexperimental guitarists Donald Miller and Rob Cambre and dancer AlexRuhe. She trains and performs yearly with her teacher AtsushiTakenouchi, creator of Jinen Butoh, which embraces life and death in abody always dancing at its limit.

Vanessa will be accompanied bymembers of her band, In the Deep Museum, which performs improvisedart/rock/noise. An industrial - electronic musician, celadon (EricMaia) has released a CD titled “Post-Industrial Delicacies.” celadoncrafts intricate soundscapes from found sounds, feedback, and othersonic sources. He also provides engineering and recording for In theDeep Museum's projects. natazatán's metal background is revealed in hisearly band, cure for god. His guitar performance with In the DeepMuseum ranges from delicate to eerie to thunderous.

Video clipsfrom the New Orleans performance of Lucifer and other Death Postureperformances may be found online at www.youtube.com/celadonmusic

Moreinformation, photos and video clips are available atdeathposture.org or by contacting Vanessa atvanessa@deathposture.org

Death Posture Presents: So Beautiful Here Where My Death Waits For Me (events » live music) Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 8:00 PM 30 RSVPs
Greetings-- here is word of our next performance offering-- falling upon the full moon-- it is a joy to collaborate with so many gifted dancers and musicians and we are honored to share the fruits with you.
take care,

Vanessa


Death Posture presents

a night of butoh/sound improvisation and new work

so beautiful here where my death waits for me

solo and duet improvisations danced by Death Posture (Vanessa Skantze and Alex Ruhe)
and played by Paul Rucker (cello) and Bill Horist (ravished guitar)

new work created by Death Posture-- so beautiful here where my death waits for me

the body rife with fear and desire at the thresholds of the unknown

danced by Alan Sutherland, Alex Ruhe, Kaoru Okumura and Briana Chittenden
original soundscape by In the Deep Museum (celadon, soundscapes, bass; natazatan, guitar; Vanessa Skantze, voice/percussion)
with special guest vox vespertinus (voice)

Saturday, April 19th at 8 p.m.

The Chapel performance space at Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. near 50th

$5- $15 donation

www.deathposture.org



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Death Posture reunion performances, Seattle and Portland 6/13 - 6/16 (events » live music) Friday, June 13, 2008 - 8:00 PM 33 RSVPs Greetings to everyone... we have a very special weekend of performances before Alex and I leave for Italy to study with our teacher Atsushi.


Saturday June 14th (the day Vanessa breathed her first) will be a reunion performance of the completeoriginal Death Posture along with special guest drummer Greg Campbell. Death Posture was formed in New Orleans in 2001by improvisational dancer Vanessa Skantze, and guitar ravishers DonaldMiller (of Borbetomagus fame) and Rob Cambre (who through Anxious Soundis responsible for the exquisite flow of experimental music into NewOrleans lo this decade or more). They performed in repeatedly in NewOrleans and at the Pauline Oliveros festival in Houston. Alex Ruhejoined the ensemble the following year. The quartet traveled to theBirmingham Improvisation Festival and created numerous performances andworkshops in New Orleans. Death Posture collaborated with TatsuyaNakatani, Chris Cutler and New Orleans luminary Kidd Jordan as well assinger Claudia Copeland.
DeathPosture dancers Vanessa Skantzeand Alex Ruhe arrived in Seattle in 2004 and collaborate with manylocal and international dancers and musicians. Death Posture's major2008 works include VIVA! a piece for eight dancers, and FLOOD, for sixdancers. Both premiered at the Chapel performance space. BothVanessa and Alex study and perform with Jinen Butoh founder AtsushiTakenouchi. Jinen dances the manifestation of the universal nervoussystem, the interwoven cycle of life and death, time and space.

There will be a Samdi on Friday the 13th, at Vanessa's house, 2511A E. Yesler Way, to celebrate Donald and Rob's visit and Vanessa's birthday. Noise Poet Nobody will perform at 10 p.m. Libations/donations toward our trip very much welcomed but not necessary.

Donald and Rob will also be performing at LoFi with Bill horist and Wally Shoup. Details below. We also have a portland performance on Monday June 16th-- please forward to anyone you know down there. I am adding/attaching Donald & Rob's bios and a couple of photos of Donald. We are updating the site... many new video clips and lots of photo galleries... updated bios forthcoming as well.

www.deathposture.org

Hope you are well -- looking forward to seeing you


thank you and take care
Vanessa

June 14th Chapel performance space at the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N. in Wallingford
DARK WATER
A night of butoh/sound improvisation
featuring the first reunion in four years of the complete Death Posture
Vanessa Skantze and Alex Ruhe, butoh dance
from New Orleans: Donald Miller and Rob Cambre, guitars
with special guest Greg Campbell, drums
show 8 p.m. $5-15 donation


June 15th LoFi Performance Gallery
429 Eastlake Ave E.
9 p.m. $5-15
a night of sublimely assaultive improvisation
from New Orleans, Donald Miller and Rob Cambre, guitars
with special guests Bill Horist, guitar and Wally Shoup, saxophone


June 16th The Fez Portland
with Nequaquam Vacuum
Power Circus
and special guest Matt Hannafin, percussion



Rob Cambre bio:
Guitarist and organizer Rob Cambre has been anactive force in his home of New Orleans for over a decade, building ascene for improvised music in the city of jazz's birth by bringing manyof the leading lights of the music in for concerts and by forging hisown music in a range of settings, from solo guitar performances to thefree jazz of Dry Bones Trio to the movement & sound group The DeathPosture (with butoh dancer Vanessa Skantze and Borbetomagus guitaristDonald Miller). Additionally he has collaborated with an impressivecast of internationally-recognized musicians across the full spectrumof approaches to improvised music, such as Tatsuya Nakatani, RogerTurner, Frank Gratkowski, Suzanne Thorpe, Davey Williams, FrodeGjerstad, Annette Krebs, Greg Kelley, Peter Kowald, Bhob Rainey, DanielCarter, Tetuzi Akiyama, Bonnie Jones, Kidd Jordan, Paal Nilssen-Love,and many more. Cambre explores and exploits the full potential ofthe electric guitar, from hornlike lines and textural damage toharnessing the singing qualities of controlled feedback and saturatedfuzztones to set the room ringing.


Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 00:53:56 -0500
Subject: Donald Miller bio & pix
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To: serpentpariah@hotmail.com

Butoh Performances at Arts in Nature Festival, Seattle, Aug 23, 24 (events » arts) Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 2:00 PM 34 RSVPs

Location: ARTS IN NATURE FESTIVAL Festival schedule available at
AUGUST 23 AND 24TH www.nature.org
AT CAMP LONG in West Seattle
5200 35th SW
bus route # 21
BUTOH PERFORMANCES BY: Helen Thorsen, Death Posture, Diego Pinon
PERCUSSION BY: Dean Moore

1. 2:15pm 2008-08-23
Butoh Performance Saturday August 23rd 2:15pm Cabin #7
I Miss You
By:
Danse Perdue / Death Posture-
Alex Ruhe & Vanessa Skantze
Music Dean Moore
The Loss of Things Is More Real Than My Life
Children?s Faces
I Take Care For My Dead Children ...
__________________________________________________________________
Date & Time: 2008-08-23 4:00 PM
Butoh Performance Saturday August 23rd 4pm Cabin #7
What Burns? What Endures?
"What is to give light must endure burning" Victor Frankl
A Butoh Dance conceived and directed by
Helen Thorsen
Music by: Dean Moore
Each dancer has created their own dance on the theme of memory and loss
Dancers: Mary Cutrera, Briana Jones, Connie McDivitt, Alex Ruhe, Vanessa Skantze, Nancy Shellenberg, Alan Sutherland, Helen Thorsen
__________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________
Butoh Performance Sunday August 24th at 4:23 pm Cabin #7
BUTOH RITUAL MEXICANO PERFORMANCE - OFFERING
By/ from intensive workshop participants: Sheri Brown, Diana Garcia-Snyder, Lin Lucas, Whitney Lawless, Jessica Gallusca, David Flaig, Kathryn Hightower, ViolaRose, & Caroline Riman under the guidance of Ritual Butoh Mexicano master Diego Pinon. Accompanied by live gong and percussion soundscape by Dean Moore.
Through this process [the offering] , the dancer creates an artistic performance, deeply exposing who they are, making their request and their offering, creating an energetic exchange with the audience, inviting everyone to encounter a deep part of themselves and their connections to others. We can tranform our dance and our daily life, including our personal attitudes and behaviors, as well as our physical well being.
Then we experience a source of energy and knowing that is beyond our identity and imagination, connected deep into the earth, our ancestral origins, the energy within and beyond nature and all of who we are."
From Diego PiZón's website www.diegopinon.com

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Butoh Workshops with YUKO OTA, Seattle, Portland, Fall 08 (events » arts) Friday, September 12, 2008 - 3:00 PM 34 RSVPs Greetings Creatures, Dancers, Musicians,

Vanessa and I are making arrangements for our Jinen Butoh dance compatriot

Yuko Ota

to come across the waters ... to dance with all of us, and make workshops. Her time frame to be in the North West is

Sept 12 - October 26.

It is pretty rare and exciting that we get an opportunity to work with someone for so long a time ... but I know that it is really short notice. I really hope that we will find a way to share and work and dance with as many of you as possible.


We have one Seattle Workshop already set ... and we are working to plan for Portland and other places (Port Townsend, Vancouver, and..?).

Please let me know as soon as you can if you would like to participate.

So, WORKSHOPS!

YUKO OTA
Northwest Workshops of Jinen Butoh
fall 2008
Workshops will be for up to 15 people.

Seattle:
October 10, 11, 12
M’Illumino Studio
6921 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle WA 98115
Friday, Oct 10: 5-9pm; Saturday, Oct 11: 10am-5pm; Sun, Oct 12: 3-8pm
Price: $175.00 3 days. $60.00 for Friday

Please Register Early to Reserve Workshop Space! JA!

To do this, write to Me (Alex) at
alexanderuhe8@gmail.com or call Vanessa 206 697 3855
and
Send Checks to
Alex Haverfield (who is that? I don’t know.)
2207 A East Terrace St
Seattle WA 98122

a $50.00 registration/promise/pact thing to hold your spot is OK!
If you have strong interest in an earlier workshop as well, write me this in your mail, and I will work towards making that happen.

Portland,
Vancouver,
Port Townsend and ? To Be Announced...

To Portland People:
We will be performing with Noah Mickens & Nequaquaam Vacuum, Bill Horist and maybe Power Circus, maybe Soriah, on September 20 (sat) or 21 (sun)
This is very short notice for a workshop, but we can probably organize one with Mizu Disierto at her new space.
If you would like to do Sept 19-21 Fri, Sat, Sun workshop, or Sept 20, 21 Sat, Sun workshop, please write me right away. If I can get about 10 people, I can work to confirm this ... and it is possible that we could come back for a second week in October. Otherwise, We try to organize just the workshop for October.

To Traveling people
... if you come from out of town we can probably find a place for you to stay.

To Everyone:
It's more than a month, but still, we don’t get to keep Yuko very long, so we are trying to do as much as possible, with as many people as possible ... if you have an idea for a collaboration, performance, event, etc. please write me (alex) at alexanderuhe8@gmail.com and we can talk about possibilities.


The following information is collected and abbreviated from my discussions with Yuko and Atsushi and from their websites. I hope only to give you a clear first impression of the themes and philosophy of JINEN Butoh, but it is still a lot of information. If you’ve come this far, you have already read the workshop essentials. So, please only continue to read if it feels good to you.

ok, here we go:

INFORMATION ON WORKSHOPS,
ON YUKO
AND ON JINEN BUTOH...

The principles of Yuko’s Butoh stem from the style Jinen Butoh created by Atsushi Takenouchi. She has spent several years working as Atsushi’s assistant and as one of the principle dancers in Atsushi’s company, Globe JINEN. She also has influence from, Yoshito Ohno, Toru Iwashita, Tenko Ima etc. In parallel, from 2003 to 2006 she worked in a French company: Les Transe-Mutants (trans-disciplinary art/dance; afro-Cuban, kathak, martial arts, modern, classic...)

Here is Atsushi’s explanation of Jinen Butoh

Jinen is an old Japanese word. Its meaning encompasses ALL that is even larger than nature.

Jinen is ALL, Jinen Butoh is a life force that dances with ALL.
Jinen ... is the swirl of the River of the Universe that embraces all life and death, light and dark..

Sea, mountain, grass and trees, even machine, car, gasoline, computer---
-- they do not belong to people. They are already alive. Even our body is not ours. We are simply lives facing one another -- so we resonate, rebel, grow angry , cry, laugh, and dance with them. All of them are JINEN.

Jinen Butoh is to join together with all the life that are already dancing, to dance with the flow of the universe that is Jinen. We remove the wall of consciousness that perceives dance as the individual " I " dancing. We are dancing with, and are danced by , the Jinen, accepting all the environment and conditions around us as Jinen.

Atsushi Takenouchi’s Website:
www.jinen-butoh.com/


Yuko’s Butoh has a little more of the theatrical element to it than does Atsushi’s (until the performance itself, Atsushi’s work is almost entirely primal, and specific to the practical mechanics of the body and its possible transformations) ... but her Butoh remains that of embodiment, of the forces of nature, and of transformation. During this recent month that we worked together, this time in Italy, I learned so much, and was so inspired and challenged by dancing with Yuko. Like Atsushi, her willingness to be human, to take risks and make mistakes makes it a lot easier to feel like you are learning together. That no one is above the others.

I should say, along with the basic philosophies of Jinen butoh, the communal beliefs that come along with it are very strong. There is a negation of the idea that the teacher is a better person, a better or higher human being ... and in the dance, any body and any style of dance is to be celebrated as long as it pushes itself towards its total meaning -- not acting, but emanating from inside and connecting to the nervous system of the universe.


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS & THEMES
-What is the individual body?
-Is it truly body, which the skin divides the exterior and the interior?
-But, what is the body without skin as border?
-Do we really control our own body with intention?
-Or does something else control us?

-No one exists independently or separately.
-All are in the influence All are always changing the form among relationships with others, with the earth.
-Let’s manifest the nature that is already with us.
-Let’s dance the life in transforming from one form to another.

BODY TRAINING
-Mixed practices, including Yoga and Noguchi gymnastics.
-Recovering body which resonates wholly by the observation of one part of body and of the rest which are always connected to this part, and also body which follow the external force: gravity

IMPROVISATION
-Research on the starting point of the movement and the reason by dancing various existences of the life, natural elements and conditions
-How and why do they move, wave, wind, fire, grass, baby, stone, tree, bird, cat, and sneak…?
-How and why does the body move, in sorrow, in anger, in joy, in love, in despair, in bad weather, in intense heat or severe cold…?

Workshop Skills
WALKING
-Balance
-Neutral walk which doesn’t have a meaning
-Walk changing with mental images
-Walking by transferring your weight.
-Life walking, Death walking.
-Walking in the various situation with restriction.

FEELING INTERIOR & EXTERIOR WORLDS
-The way of body operating to make the movement come out from inside.
-Sketch the things in the nature world like living life, animal, natural material by body properly.
- one cycle of an embryo, a baby, a child, an adult, an old man.
- an insect, a beast, trees, grass, a flower.
- a gas, a liquid, a solid, gel, amoeba, an organism, minerals.
-Capturing a conscious movement and an unconscious movement as a dance.
-Dance a fragmented dream.
-Gravitation and floating.
-Various sound and body expression, voice.
-Dance the seasonal body of your own.
-The process of the metamorphosis.
-The dance by organic and inorganic contact with other life.
-How we can be desperate.
-A collaboration and an improvisation by body and sound.
-Find out your own expression coming from your emotion with focusing on really personal things which is inside of you.


“My dance is never anti conventional dances.
If anything, it is the extension of human being’s idea
and my fundamental principle of butoh is
on the discovery of the possibility
to metamorphose human body into all,
including animal, plant and object without life.”
--Tatsumi Hijikata


Biographical Sketch of Yuko Ota:

Dancer living between Japan and Europe.
She is born in 1977 in Fukuoka (Japan).
In 1999, she encounters butoh in a workshop of Atsushi Takenouchi
in Kyoto to where she had moved for her studies on
French language. She was deeply touched by butoh and discovered
the world of dance. Since, she followed lessons and
workshops of several masters of butoh : Yoshito Ohno, Toru
Iwashita, Tenko Ima etc.
She takes a part, essentially as dancer and assistant, of the
company Globe JINEN directed by A. Takenouchi.
In parallel, from 2003 to 2006 she participates to a French
company : Les Transe-Mutants (trans-disciplinary art/dance ;
afro-Cuban, kathak, martial arts, modern, classic...) which she
met in Paris and in which she deepened physical techniques.
Today, she executes her own researches on butoh around the
question about the way to live dance of lives and bodies at the
crossroad of connection with others, in organizing workshops
of butoh in the same way as solo performance.

Yuko Ota’s Website:
millenary-euphoria.net/



Yet more information...?
I will whisper for you
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Death Posture and Yuko Ota perform Saturday, September 13 @ good shepard, Seattle (events » arts) Saturday, September 13, 2008 - 8:00 PM 34 RSVPs Death Posture (Danse Perdue) presents a new work

I MISS YOU

created by Death Posture (Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe and Celedon)
based on the work of their teacher, Jinen butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi

With A Solo Dance Performance by YUKO OTA

Saturday, September 13, 2008 8 p.m.
Chapel performance space at the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Avenue N. in Wallingford
$5- 15 donation

PERFORMERS

Dance: Yuko Ota, Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe, Kaoru Okumura, Lin Lucas, Helen Thorsen, Azrael, Briana Jones, Katrina Ellison

music: celadon soundscapes, bass Noise Poet Nobody prepared stringboard, noise vox vespertinus voice

I MISS YOU is created from this experience with Atsushi. I MISS YOU explores our often isolated and anguished natures and the longing to connect with one another and with Jinen, the life in everything. I MISS YOU exhibits the cycles of seasons and animal life and the incomplete nature of every encounter ... of every love, of every violent act.

Yuko Ota will be performing a solo this night, and teaching workshops in Seattle and Portland. Yuko Ota has spent several years working as Atsushi's assistant, traveling and teaching throughout Europe. She is one of the principle dancers in Atsushi's company, Globe JINEN.

Death Posture recently traveled to Italy for a four-week intensive workshop with their teacher, Jinen Butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi. He describes Jinen:

'Jinen is an old Japanese word. Its meaning encompasses ALL that is even larger than nature.

Jinen is ALL, Jinen Butoh is a life force that dances with ALL.
Jinen ... is the swirl of the River of the Universe that embraces all life and death, light and dark..
Sea, mountain, grass and trees, even machine, car, gasoline, computer---they do not belong to people.
They are already alive. Even our body is not ours. We are simply lives facing one another -- so we resonate, rebel, grow angry , cry, laugh, and dance with them. All of them are JINEN.
Jinen Butoh is to join together with all the life that are already dancing, to dance with the flow of the universe that is Jinen. We remove the wall of consciousness that perceives dance as the individual ' I 'dancing. We are dancing with, and are danced by , the Jinen, accepting all the environment and conditions around us as Jinen.


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Butoh Performance: Dance Perdue Sat 3/28 8pm Seattle (events » arts) Friday, March 20, 2009 - 8:00 PM 32 RSVPs Danse Perdue/ Death Posture present:

ATTITUDES PASSIONNELLES

A CELEBRATION: 50 YEARS OF BUTOH DANCE, 10,000 YEARS OF HYSTERIA

Saturday, March 28, 8 pm.

the Chapel performance space at the Good Shepherd
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.
$5-15 donation



I am always late. I am always intermittent. I don't have time. I don't have time. I am beside myself. other bodies enter through me. I am beside time, I am already guilty, shadows come out of me. An aura, a wind passes through me, a breath carries strange noises through my mind. Everything about me is uncertain. I don't have time, alive or dead, at any moment I am not myself.

The word hysteria comes from the Greek hyster, meaning womb. For millenia it was believed the uterus moved chaotically through the body, driving women to distraction, licentiousness and madness. In the latter half of the nineteenth century at the Salpetriere asylum for insane and incurable women in Paris, medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot began an exhaustive photographic documentation of the inmates diagnosed as hysterics. He held the notorious "Tuesday Lectures" during which hysterical attacks and tableaux of hypnotic suggestion would be induced/performed for an audience. (A young Freud was in residence for a time at the Salpetriere.) As perpetual subjects of experimentation the hysterics received favorable treatment within the asylum, thus were encouraged to manifest the elements of the hysterical attack in response to the clinician's desire.

I am only explaining to you, through malformed gestures, that the quality of my own pain will bend to the pleasure of your desire. But the effect of our collusion is cruel.

Danse Perdue seeks to delimit desire through a dance of becoming other. We shift our inner spaces to beckon in other beings, creatures, elements, particles of sound and light.... ever desiring to flow from transformation to transformation, creating a rhythmic space of willed possessions encountering each other and the audience. In the photographs and words of the hysterics we encounter a distorted mirror: the imploded desire of catalepsy and tetanisme expressed in exquistely tortioned limbs, the hypnotized body become a malleable toy for the doctors directorial desire, the codified performances of the attitudes passionnelles with their flawlessly repeated gestural expressions of rage, religious and sexual ecstasy, fear and anguish. As we created this work, we sought a becoming-hysteric inside our bodies to erupt in unknown voices and movements and to mutate recognizable movements and voices into strange, irrevocably compelled creatures.

We are graced with a group of dedicated and brave dancers who have performed in many of our past works:

Lin Lucas, Douglas Ridings, Ariel Denham, Kaoru Okumura, and Katrina Sirena with Danse Perdue (Vanessa Skantze, Alex Ruhe).

And sound collaborators old and new: celadon, Noise Poet Nobody, and Herpes Hideaway