Butoh Masterclass with Butoh Master Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh

SUNDAY APRIL 9, 2023

10am–1pm

Photo by David Jennings

$50

Location

CAMEO STUDIOS

306 WEST 43rd Street

Studio A

NY NY 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 306. Buzz studio A.

Photo by Katrina Wolfe

After studying with Kazuo Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo in the late 80s and performing with Ashikawa’s group Gnome, Joan Laage settled in Seattle and directed Dappin’ Butoh from 1990-2001. She is a co-founder of DAIPANbutoh Collective, which produces an annual butoh festival. Joan has performed at many festivals including the first New York butoh festival, and most recently, at Vienna’s Hybrid Butoh Festival and Paris’ En Chair et en Son Acousmatic Festival. A Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University, who wrote on the butoh body and Certified Movement Analyst (NYC), she is featured in Sondra Fraleigh’s books and in Tanya Calamoneri’s Butoh America. She creates site-specific work for Seattle Japanese gardens annually and tours every winter in Europe. She is an avid Tai Chi practitioner with a background in traditional Asian dance/theater and a professional gardener. Since living in Krakow 2004–2006, she has been known as Kogut (rooster).

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.