The London Butoh UK Autumn Festival
2009
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie/producer is delighted to confirm the programme for
the autumn. She has previously produced 4 Butoh festivals, countless workshops
and events and more recently has concentrated on managing Ko Murobushi's solo
tours for Dance Umbrella and The Place Theatre 2003 and 2007.
Please note our new postal mailing address for cheques and payments
is 1 Christchurch Square
LONDON
E9
7HU.
performances
Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya solo dance and after show
lecture/discussion November 11th 6pm Goldsmiths University of London
Yuko Kaseki and Marie-Gabrielle Rotie solos December 13th and 14th Cockpit
Theatre, London 7.30pm
workshops
Atsushi Takenouchi November 12th - 15th cost 130 /120
Yuko Kaseki December 11/12 cost ￡75
Sayoko Onishi December 4/5/6/ cost ￡100/90
weekly Classes taught by Marie-Gabrielle Rotie run
as:
Tuesdays
7-9pm October 6th - December 1st ( 9 weeks) ￡110/ ￡100
concessions
( please
note these are not drop in and the whole terms needs to be
booked)
PERFORMANCES
Cockpit Theatre
Gateforth Street (Off Church
Street)
London, NW8
8EH
Yuko Kaseki solo UNSPELLED and
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie solo BLACK MIRROR December 13th 7.30pm
ticket ￡15 at Cockpit Theatre
UNSPELLED by Yuko
Kaseki is
a solo dance performance confronting the landscape of the body before its
configurations of language or orientation.
Playing
in deconstruction and construction of self-image, territory of emotion,
sexuality, and geometrical weight, the dance repeats death and birth,
rhythmically piling up memory and cutting out moments of
silence.
BLACK MIRROR commissioned by Laban and British
Council in Portugal and Almada festival has toured since 2007 and makes a rare
return to London. Black Mirror is inspired by the early silent film Nosferatu
and childhood fears of darkness. www.rotieproductions.com
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie new solo MYTHIC at Cockpit Theatre plus screening of two short
films December 14th 7.30 pm ticket ￡15 at Cockpit
Theatre
This new solo/installation work in progress
explores themes of death, memory and Hijikata's exploration in butoh that
the dead live on is us, and is a tribute to her late grandmother.
Double billed with special screenings of the films Dreamt in Flesh
and 1/4, also featuring Colin McClean, made in collaboration with Ian
Pons Jewell
Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya : JINEN
with post-show talk and screenings hosted by PRF at Goldsmiths Drama
department, chaired by Marie-Gabrielle Rotie.
at George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths Drama Department, University of
London, New Cross, SE14 6NW (nearest overground train is New Cross or
New Cross Gate) November 11th 6pm reservations: 0207
919 7414
This performance “JINEN” is an
improvisational dance, based on Atsushi Takenouchi’s impressions of the moment,
formulated from the space, location, architecture, people, the air, the climate
including the spirit of the space, history and memory of the space.
Having had dancing tour in
the various locations and nature stage in Japan in order to face to the origin
of it, Takenouchi had encountered very native Japan which was ancient but still
alive, being hidden in the each lands, climates, peoples, music, customs,
languages and the other localities. It probably is the source of a myriad of
gods. He has absorbed it directly during that travel of more than 3 years with
over 600 performances. Since then, he has been dancing and travelling over the
world with no bound endlessly.
He feels that dancing with
the space has brought back the memories, which were sleeping, in his DNA. He
uses the memories of once being a tree, grass, animal, wind, soil, fire or water
in his dance. He dances with feeling the life of the earth and harmonizing with
the air and the environment.
“The body is a container for
one soul, which cannot be changed by anything.” Dancing with those bodies is a
common culture for all human beings. Performing this primitive dance in the
place where people have gathered together since ancient time, where music and
dance were born from prayer, is an important ceremony which traces where we came
from and where we are going.
workshops
venue for all workshops: LBAC,
eastbourne house, bullards place, bethnal green
E2
NEW ADDRESS!! cheques payable to: marie-gabrielle
rotie/Butoh UK 1 Christchurch Square
LONDON
E9
7HU
Atsushi Takenouchi November 12th - 15th 11-5pm. cost ￡130/or 120
concession
The Apollo(Amaterasu) and
Dionysus(Susanoh) element in butoh”
In Japanese myth,
there are many various 800 of gods existence as Greek myth.
The most
important two gods are named “Amaterasu ( the sun )” and “Susanoh ( thunder
god). Both of them has the character just like The Apollo and Dionysus of Greek
myth. In this workshop, we will interpret this two elements of this two gods by
butoh movement.
Yin and yang ? light
and darkness, shape and energy, Apollo and Dionysus. Two principles which
conflict and complement each other.
During
the seminar we will explore our body as breath, movement and sound in relation
with the Apollonian and Dionysian primordial
action.
The power of light, symmetry, harmony and
transcendental of the Apollonian presence and the power of earth, fire, ecstasy
of the Dionysian action shall be expressed through the body with movement and
sound,voice.
Live music by Hiroko Komiya will accompany the
workshop (Percussion, natural material sounds, voice
improvisation) This workshop is addressed to dancers, actors, performers
and generally to all who love body, movement and
sound.
Atsushi Takenouchi joined Butoh dance
company "Hoppo-Butoh-ha" in Hokkaido in 1980. His last performance with the
company "Takazashiki"(1984) was worked on by Butoh-founder Tatsumi Hijikata. He
has been working on his own Jinen Butoh since 1986 and created solos
"Tanagokoro", "Ginkan", "Itteki" as a universal expression of nature, earth, and
ancient times and his impressions of the moment, formulated from the people
around him, and the environment. He toured Japan between 1996 and 1999. In 1999
he toured Jinen Butoh "Sun & Moon" and led Butoh workshops in Europe and
Asia for six months. Since autumn 2002 he has been mainly based in Europe for
one year arts fellowship funded by a Japanese government. And he has been
working on Butoh dance collaboration project with dancers and actors in France,
Poland and other countries. he has taught workshops on 4 previous occasions for
Butoh Uk and also performed 3 times in Uk, twice in duets with Marie-Gabrielle
Rotie.
Yuko Kaseki December 11th/12/cost
￡75
Me・Mento ? Memory ?
Moment
The improvisational body existing in each
moment.
A moment running through memory, a memento to reach
new experiences.
Break habits and find the
body in momentum.
Collect and leave new memories in an instant.
Here
we begin to dance, Me・Mento.
The workshop’s emphasis is to
develop original movement through physical training, details of body awareness,
and improvisation with image, gesture, space, and relationship.
Every
Participants find out own theme of solo performance, the end of workshop we will show
small presentation.Physical training is based on Noguchi gymnastics, Butoh
methodology, and elements of Tai-Chi. We practice for the whole body to be
permeable and awake to deeper layers of sensitivity. We work from the center of
our body (Tanden), to cultivate our energy source. We try to listen honestly to
the variants of inner body and develop this in relation to the outer.The workshop offers the possibility to seek and
experience in solo, duet and group improvisations. Through intensity and
reduction everyone can dive deeply into movement and translate it into
individual manifestations. It is important for each person to find a unique
body, reality, and exposure.
Yuko Kaseki is a dancer, choreographer and teacher.
She is the founder of the Berlin based company cokaseki with Marc Ates in 1995.
The works are based on a constantly changing form of Butoh
dance. Cokaseki’s productions are
presented through out Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico and Japan. Prize and
nominations by various dance competitions. Collaboration with inkBoat (SF), CAVE
(NY), Floor of Sky project(SF), and others. Since 2004, Kaseki has organized and
performed with international performers and musicians, the ongoing improvisation
series AMMO-NITE GIG.
www.cokaseki.com
www.youtube.com/user/cokaseki
www.myspace.com/cocokaseki
Sayoko Onishi December 4/5/6 cost ￡100/90
in the form of the formless: becoming ghost
The
workshop will be based on the poems written by Tatsumi Hijikata
and Kazuo Ohno for their choreography.
In there, one can find the basic
themes of Butoh, in the form of Butoh-fu and texts which encourage physicality
through imagination and form. This workshop will partly focus in the
physical and imagistic form of the ghost, which often features in the writing
and choreography of Hijikata. Sayoko Onishi is one of the rare younger
generation of Japanese butoh performers to have trained thoroughly with both the
Hijikata method and with Yoshito and Kazuo Ohno with whom she currently
has close links. This gives her workshops a special rigor, depth and
understanding and she helps to bring the more specific Japanese elements of
Butoh into clearer understanding for western participants.
Sayoko has appeared in several previous butoh
festivals in the Uk and has taught on several occasions. Her solo work has
received critical acclaim from the Uk press. In 1986 she
studied dance butoh with Mr. Ipei Yamada in the dance
company Hoppo-Butoh
Ha, afterwards she began an
intensive artistic collaboration under the supervision of Mr. Hironobu Oikawa,
absorbing from his mastership the style and the choreographies of butoh dance.
From 1990 she began a brilliant carrier as a solo professional dancer
within Europe, working at
the same time as a choreographer and as a teacher. In 2000 she began living and working in Palermo (Italy), where she started working as a teacher and choreographer for
the Associazione Siciliana
Danza.Sayoko has received various important international prize, among them in
1997 the 1 prize at the International Dance Competition in Augusburg (Germany) and in the same year the 2 prize at
the International Dance
Competition in Leipzig (Germany).In 2006 the 1
prize at the Die Platze
contemporary dance competition inTokyo.She has performed
mostly as a soloist in international renowned theatres: The Melkweg in Amsterdam, Jackson Lane Theater in London, Tanz
Fabrik in Berlin, Art
Festival Five
Project in Tokyo, Teatro Furio
Camillo inRome. In 2005 she starts teaching as a
guest teacher at University of Palermoand
founded the International Butoh Academy in collaboration with theAssociazione
Siciliana Danza and
Master Yoshito Ohno from Japanese Butoh Institute. www.butoh.it
weekly classes taught by Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
Tuesdays
7-9pm October 6th - December 1st ￡100 ( for 9
weeks)
Butoh acts as a radical challenge and catalyst for a deep and
personal enquiry into the moving body. Butoh is not about doing movement but
about being moved. Concentration is turned inward, away from the external mirror
image of the body, to encourage a deep connection to the origin and impulses for
movement. Participants are introduced to the value and power of working
from imagination and from guided poetic imagery and butoh -fu as tools for
transformation. The body can discover many selves and extend into animal, plant
or non-human entities. Each session begins with a short body training session
incorporating yoga, voice and Butoh techniques that concentrates on wave, spiral
and circular movement patterns allied to breath and voice. Butoh walks are
taught as tools for realising the power of movement within stillness,
silence and emptiness. Group and solo structures, improvised and
choreographic allow participants time to explore the fluid
interface between inner and outer space and to enjoy the delicious quality
of slow motion work allied to working with dynamic energy and
impulses. .The weekly classes are a wonderful opportunity to explore both
choreographic and improvisatory butoh methods and approaches, over a period of
time, allowing space and time to understand and reflect. Suited to all levels
the classes attract both experienced practitioners and complete
beginners.
NEW ADDRESS!! cheques payable to:
marie-gabrielle rotie/Butoh UK 1 Christchurch Square
LONDON
E9
7HU
cancellations - up to
10 days before a workshop 100 percent refund and no refund thereafter.
Participants who cancel 5 days before the course are not refunded but can
however transfer their payment to a future course.
disclaimer - butoh uk
and its teachers cannot accept responsibility for injury or illlness caused
during a workshop and participants must ensure they are in good health before
taking part.
(supported by
Goldsmiths University, Ellis-Miller , Cockpit Theatre and Butoh
Uk)