Butoh, Sensuality, and the Nervous System
Workshop Taught by Vangeline
New York City
June 1, 2, 3, 4
Drawing from her own background as a go go/burlesque/vaudeville And butoh dancer, Vangeline teaches a workshop that explores the link between sensuality AND Butoh, as well as receptivity and its impact on the nervous system. THIS WORKSHOP WILL ALSO DRAW FROM TECHNIQUES OF NOGUCHI TAISO.
Participants will have free acess to Vangeline’s online lecture on the topic as a companion to the workshop.
Dates and times:
Thursday, June 1st, 7 to 9pm
Friday, June 2nd, 6:30-8:30pm
Saturday, June 3rd, 4:30pm to 7:30pm
Sunday, June 4, 6-8pm
Different locations-check below
FEES
4 days: $125
Thursday, Friday, Sunday: $25/day; Saturday $35
SINGLE DAYS
Thursday, June 1st, 7pm to 9pm
Location: Cameo Studios, Studio A, 307 West 43rd Street, NYC 10036
A/C/E to Port Authority
Friday, June 2nd, 6:30-8:30pm
Vangeline Theater Studios, 126 10th Street Suite 207, Brooklyn NY 11237
F/G/R to 4th Avenue
Saturday, June 3rd, 4:30 to 7:30 pm
Location: Cameo Studios, Studio A, 307 West 43rd Street, NYC 10036
A/C/E to Port Authority
Sunday, June 4, 6-8 pm
Location: Cameo Studios, Studio A, 307 West 43rd Street, NYC 10036
A/C/E to Port Authority
NOTE: DO NOT GOOGLE THIS ADDRESS! BUT GO TO CORNER OF 8th Av and 43rd Street in Manhattan. Cameo Studios are down the street between 8th and 9th Avenue. Number 307. Buzz studio A.
Vangeline draws on 20 years of experience as a Butoh teacher and dancer, and has 35 years of expertise in the field of dance. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book of non-fiction Butoh: Cradling Empty Space. With her all-female dance company, Vangeline’s socially conscious performances tie together butoh and activism. Vangeline is the founder of the New York Butoh Institute Festival, which elevates the visibility of women in butoh, and the festival Queer Butoh. She pioneered the award-winning, 15-year running program The Dream a Dream Project, which brings butoh dance to incarcerated men and women at correctional facilities across New York State. Her choreographed work has been performed in Chile, Hong Kong, Germany, Denmark, France, the UK, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Vangeline is a 2022/2023 Gibney Dance Dance in Process residency and the winner of a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Dance Award. She is also a 2018 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Choreography for Elsewhere (a work that began as an artistic commission from Surface Area Dance Theatre with support from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Heritage Lottery Fund UK); the winner of the 2015 Gibney Dance Social Action Award as well as the 2019 Janet Arnold Award from the Society of Antiquaries of London. Her work as an educator, choreographer, and curator has been supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, Japan Foundation, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Council on the Arts, Robert Friedman Foundation, and Asian American Arts Alliance.
She is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine. She teaches trauma-informed Butoh classes. Vangeline welcomes students with disabilities, including students with hearing impairment, and/or students who are visually impaired or wheelchair-bound students. All workshops are open level and beginners are welcome.
Cancellations for this class must be made 48 hours before the class start time. Students that do not attend the class will not receive any form of credit or exchange.
Photo Credit: Michael Blase
