Butoh, Sensuality, and the Nervous System
Online Workshop Taught by Vangeline
via Zoom
June 7, 9, 10, 11
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 access to Vangeline’s online lecture on the topic as a companion to the workshop.
Dates and times:
Wednesday, June 7, 6 pm to 8 pm Eastern
Friday, June 9, 6 pm to 8 pm Eastern
Saturday, June 10, 2-4 pm Eastern
Sunday, June 11, noon to 2 pm Eastern
An email link with the zoom login info will be emailed to you a few hours prior to class. If you have not received your link, thank you for checking your spam, or email us at butohinstitute@gmail.com to request the log in info again.
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FEES
4 days: $100
Single days $25
SINGLE DAYS
Wednesday, June 7, 6pm to 8 pm Eastern
Friday, June 9, 6pm to 8 pm Eastern
Saturday, June 9, 2-4pm Eastern
Sunday, June 10, 12-2pm Eastern
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 OPEN Indy 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
