Photo by Marion Gray *taken in 1989 at The Lab, San Francisco, of the Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Company
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If October is to far for you and SF in close....
Forwarded from Shelley Cook-Contreras:
HIROKO TAMANO DANCE BUTOH CLASS SERIES:
at The Bayview Winery Studio, San Francisco
Hijikata~Tamano Butoh Method with
Master-Teacher Hiroko Tamano,
Assisted by Shelley Cook-Contreras
WHEN: September 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th,
4 Saturdays, 12 PM~3 PM
WHERE: 3030 Ingalls Street, San Francisco, Ca 94124.
COST : $40 per class. or 140.00 for series
*Pay at the door. CASH/CHECK ONLY
CONTACT: Shelley, text/cal 661-478-9983
These classes are fun, healing to body and spirit, and appropriate to all level “movers”! It’s a rare opportunity to train with Butoh Master Hiroko Tamano, in the experimental, imaginative discipline of the Hijikata~Tamano Dance Method.
Shelley Cook-Contreras will lead Regenerative-Body Warm-ups, and Discussion, with special practices each week.
HIROKO TAMANO / co-director of Harupin-Ha Dance Company. Hiroko Tamano first studied Butoh Dance from its Founder, Tatsumi Hijikata. She is famous for her passionate and imaginative teaching style, using poetic image to inspire and direct. Her award-winning 40+year career includes performing and teaching internationally. In dance, as in life, Hiroko’s aim is to create experiences that are at once primal and universal, awakening memories immediately recognizable to each of us. Creating a landscape of sensation, the Tamano Method expands time into a dreamlike place. Hiroko and her renowned partner, Koichi Tamano, perpetuate Hijikata’s spirit in their own dance method, blending elements of Tokyo and California with the cosmos. She can be contacted at butohtama@gmail.com
SHELLEY COOK-CONTRERAS is an internationally exhibited performance artist. She earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres Department, and has taught performance at colleges and universities.Her performance projects have been funded by the California Arts Council and the National Endowments for the Arts. Shelley trained extensively in Butoh Dance with Hiroko Tamano, Diego Pinion, and Maureen Fleming, creating many solo and ensemble works within the Butoh discipline. She sees art as the dreams of society,and , like dreams, art communicates hidden truth in its images. Her teaching blends art practice with the healing wisdom from 30 years as a bodywork practitioner, (freemotionbodywork.com) She can be contacted at freemotionbodywork@gmail.com
DIRECTIONS: The Bayview Winery Studios - 3030 Ingalls Street, San Francisco, CA 94124 (Don’t miss this chance to dance in this beautiful studio!) Please note~cats present! In SF: Between Hollister and Gilman St., go two blocks to Ingalls Street, take a right. House/Studio is on the right, big turquoise-green gate! Parking on street. 2 blocks from 3rd street rail and bus.
IF you still are cravin Butoh....
Sankai Juku will be performing in LA and in Berkeley but this is the only workshop I know of.
Forwarded from Bay Area Butoh
Berkeley, CA
SANKAI JUKU FREE BUTOH WORKSHOP
Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 10am
Center for Arts and Religion, Doug Adams Gallery (2365 LeConte Avenue, Berkeley)
Movement workshop exploring elements of butoh, a form of Japanese dance theater that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques, and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. RSVP requested. Please note: separate Butoh Discussion offered at 11:30am (separate registration requested).
Register Here https://calperformances.org/performances/2019-20/world-stage/sankai-juku-meguri-teeming-sea-tranquil-land.php
