Butoh Class with Margherita Tisato
Sunday, October 9, 2022
4:00-6:00 pm EST
Online Via Zoom
Hosted by Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute
$20
An email link with the zoom log in 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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Margherita is a movement practitioner and a seeker of somatic wisdom and integration.
As a principal dancer with the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble she has danced with the company for over 10 years. She’s a founding member of Dances We Dance, and is also a Isadora Duncan dancer, studying and performing with Dances by Isadora. As a Butoh artist and teacher, Margherita worked with The Vangeline Theater for over 10 years and has been leading classes and workshops nationally and internationally both independently and as a representative of the New York Butoh Institute. She started Butoh-Somatics, a class inspired by somatic movement principles led through Butoh-based improvisational techniques, during the pandemic and led weekly online classes until this spring.
She facilitates and presents work through a range of movement techniques spanning from modern and contemporary dance, to Butoh, shibari and flesh hook suspension and her offerings are informed by all her practices and interests, including seemingly less embodied subjects like poetry, metaphors, neuroscience, and music.
Aside from performance, Margherita is a movement educator focusing on anatomy, somatic movement, and Trauma-Informed yoga, and her work includes teaching in prisons, therapeutic rehabilitation and alternative to incarceration facilities, as well as individuals affected by Trauma.
She has co-created a curriculum in Embodied Pedagogy for the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and is currently working on a research grant to increase emotion detection and processing through embodiment for folk dealing with addiction.
Our Butoh classes are trauma-informed; however, we recommend that prior to taking any class, prospective students familiarize themselves with our studio policy, particularly students with a history of PTSD or students with any mental health condition. Please read OUR STUDIO POLICY before taking a class. Thank you!
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.