Butoh workshop: Butoh, Sensuality, and the Nervous System with Vangeline in Newcastle Upon Tyne
Rebellious Bodies: International Butoh Dance Festival 2023
with partners
NPO Dance Archive Network and Surface Area Dance Theatre
presents
Butoh, Sensuality, and the Nervous System with Vangeline
Drawing from her own background as a 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 the techniques of Noguchi Taiso. No dance experience is necessary; this is an all-level class, and beginners are welcome. Some experience with mindfulness or somatic practice can be helpful. This workshop is trauma-informed.
*Participants will have free access to Vangeline’s online lecture on the topic as a companion to the workshop.
Location: Dance City
Temple St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4BR, UK
November 11, 2023 at –11am-3pm
Tickets start at £15.00. For more info and ticketing, visit: https://www.dancecity.co.uk/performance/226900/hijikata-mon-amour-vangeline-the-new-york-butoh-institute/
https://www.rebelliousbodiesfestival.com/vangeline
Vangeline Bio:
Vangeline draws on 21 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, 17-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. All workshops are open level, and beginners are welcome.Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute, presents Vangeline in The Slowest Wave, a pioneering project combining butoh and neuroscience. www.vangeline.com
Top photo is by Michael Blase. Workshop photos by Yusen Gilman.
Photo descriptions:
Vangeline in the Slowest Wave. She is lying on her side a dark stage, back lit and wears a white leotard.
Vangeline is teaching at Zen Mountain Monastery. A number of people are sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on a wooden floor in an oval-like shape. The group focused on Vangeline, who sits in the upper left of the room, is closely connected and partially lit by natural light shining from above. Her hands are in a prayer gesture.
One student is lying on his stomach on a wooden floor. The sunlight casts light and shadows on his outstretched arm as he seems to be reaching for something.
Vangeline and the students lying on their stomachs in a circle, smiling and reaching for each other’s hands.