Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute

presents

RISING OF THE UNCHAINED SILENT SCREAMS

A solo created and performed by

Tebby W.T. Ramasike

as part of

The Online New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020

October 24, 2020, at 8 pm

(replay from our 5 pm zoom live screening)

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Rising Of The Unchained Silent Screams

A 30-min solo created and performed exclusively by Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE followed by a discussion with the artist.

Concept, Choreography & Performance:
Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE

In a state of isolation and emptiness, I listen to cries of a soul that seeks awakening in the depths
of the impossibility of silence. The spirit rises in a cry for the soul that shall inherit this earth …..for the spirit knows not where darkness is enlightening!
It is, but, cries of deliverance from the depth of confined darkness.

Music: ‘Beyond’ - ‘Pulse’ – ‘Return Featuring Yoann Francois’
With kind permission of Hiroko Komiya & Atsushi Takenouchi, from their album, ‘PENDULUM
SEA’

Video: Joël Muller

This solo is created exclusively for the New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020.

Tebby W.T. RAMASIKE, a South African choreographer, dancer, teacher/educator, researcher in
dance, Butoh practitioner, and cultural activist, arrived in Europe in 1995 after working with
different theatre and dance companies in South Africa and abroad. He traveled extensively during a period of research and collaboration. Worked with internationally acclaimed choreographers and teachers. Was nominated and won a number of prestigious choreography and dance awards. In 1999 he founded TeBogO Dance Ensemble (TBO), renamed TeBogO Dance – TBO, which since its
inauguration has been invited to perform and teach in Europe and abroad. A holder of an MA
degree in Choreography from the Dance Unlimited Programme in Arnhem, Netherlands, was the
first recipient of the international choreography bursary from the Michel Tesson Performing Arts
Trust and subsequently the Creative Arts Foundation. In 2002 he became a member of World Dance
Alliance Europe and currently, he is a member of UNESCO's International Dance Council (CID).
Co-authored an article on 'Reverie' for a chapter 'Collaboration' in the book, 'Inventing Futures'.
Currently, he is working on an interactive multidisciplinary crossover collaborative project and
continues research on his concept of the Afro-Butoh.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.