Vangeline’s Butoh Workshop in Florence
will be held in Florence from the 15th to the 17th of November 2024.
BUTOH WORKSHOP
Butoh, Sensuality, and the Nervous System
with Vangeline
15/16/17 November 2024
P.A.R.C. - Florence, Italy
Piazzale delle Cascine 7, 50144, Florence
Workshop duration: 15h
Fee: 180 € (Fee does not included travel costs or accommodation)
Schedule: Friday 1pm to 6pm, Saturday and Sunday 12am to 5pm
For Workshop info or booking contact: info@camillagiani.com or Whatsapp +39 3931872692
TIP for people travelling from abroad:
You can fly directly to Florence but also check flight to the PISA Galielo Galilei Airport, which are usually cheaper ( Ryanair, easy jet).
In case you want to share an airbnb or an hotel room I can create a whatsapp group where you can connect and I can suggest cheap solutions close to the studio.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: 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.
Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in Japanese butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese butoh while carrying it into the twenty-first century.
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.
Vangeline firmly believes that Butoh can be an instrument of personal and collective transformation in the 21st century. This transformation comes from holding a mirror to each other and integrating our many facets–the beautiful and the ugly; and from reintegrating the forgotten of our society into our midst.