Initial Posting to my butoh world tour with butoh master Katsura Kan. Currently in home town, Durango, Colorado, USA; will head to home in Seattle, Washington, USA; then to Greece, Sweden, L.A., and Buenos Aires (July, August). Then to Seattle, Boulder, Durango (September, October). Then to China, Tibet, Nepal, Indonesia, and/or India (October, December).
Outcome? Adventure, discovery, growth. Something real to share and develop. Hopefully, the initial seeds of a settling down in fruitful partnership and further community enhancement too. Pioneer Square a hub of international weaving of a butoh web.
Healing, transformation, expansion.
It gave me great pleasure to announce to my community my unanticipated, imminent world tour with butoh master Katsura Kan. Â His humbling and exciting invitation resulted in my decision to resign from my day job to follow and work with Kan for the next 6 months. Â Briefly, the tour starts in Greece July 14, goes to Sweden, bounces to L.A. and then Buenos Aires before a Boulder butoh festival and film project, back to Seattle in October for DAIPAN'S presentation of work and then on to any or all of the following countries in
ReplyDeleteDetailed information about the Greece and L.A. components of the trip are below.
Also, FRIDAY, JULY 9, all were invited to an informal evening of Butoh performances by local butoh mama Joan Laage, me, and special guests from Brazil's Teatro Ritual. Donations at this event went to my upcoming Butoh adventure overseas.
If you couldn't make it to this performance evening but would still like to donate toward my travel expenses, please make your tax-deductible checks payable to Shunpike (2324 1st Avenue;Â Seattle, WA 98121 (206) 905-1026, contact: Â Ellen Whitlock-Baker) with a note, "Sheri Brown Butoh World Tour"; they will make sure you get the proper receipt for your tax purposes. Your donation would ensure I could afford participation in the the full tour, also enabling me to give back to to the community by sharing workshops and/or performances based on what I learn in Seattle and other communities when I return. Any amount, really, would help; if you can afford it, I would be ever-so-appreciative.
Whether or not you can donate much or any at all, however, you are sincerely appreciated as a part of my cherished world community network.
Peace and good will, power to the people, art, nature, progress, and so on:)-
Sheri Brown
www.sheribrown.com
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Details about first stop: GREECE:)-->
ReplyDeleteThe Research and Artistic Ensemble of Athens University – Philosophy School DRYOS TOPOI, in collaboration with the Study Group of Ancient Orchesis, the “Theatro tsi Zakythos†& - Youth Cultural Initiative - YOU.C.I
The 8th  workshop of dance theatre* – Summer School with dance master Katsura Kan
July 2010 for 12 days:«Body and Voice» Noh Theatre/ Butoh in conjunction with Ancient Greek Tradition and Antiquity.
The choice of the island as a venue for the seminar is due to the rich historical theatrical tradition of the island, to its natural beauty and global significance for the environment and the preservation of rare species - the turtle caretta-caretta and the seal monachus - monachus. Butoh, a revolutionary form of contemporary dance with specific applications in the ancient drama, but also in Dance Therapy and artistic exploration, means a new philosophical stance on man - nature, body - dance.
Workshop will be realized in Zakynthos island and includes
Daily practical workshops with Katsura Kan
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Voicing and chanting with Elena Kazantzidis – Niskria
Introduction to ancient Greek dance and traditional Pontos dances
Presentation of dance theatre performance at the end of the workshops (Workshops in Athens University and Zakynthos island in July. The seminar will be realized in open & closed spaces.)
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