ETS explores endless questions: What is life? What is the human condition? What is the body? How can we experience infinity within the body/mind? The workshop structure includes exercises and exploration of physical body, elemental body, and ethereal body, and ends each day in free improvisation which will lead to developing characters. Group and partner work will facilitate participants’ individual and collective journeys. The workshop draws from her training with Butoh Masters Kazuo Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa (the major disciple of Butoh’s founder Tatsumi Hijikata) and her background as a Tai Chi practitioner and professional gardener.
Joan Laage (Kogut) studied under butoh masters Kazuo Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa and performed with Ashikawa’s group Gnome in Japan in the late 80s. After settling in Seattle in 1990, she formed Dappin’ Butoh, a company known for its appearances in Seattle’s fringe theater and dance festivals. Joan has performed and taught at national and international butoh and dance festivals, and was a featured artist at the UCLA Butoh Symposium in May 2011, and has been an adjunct faculty at Cornish College of The Arts (Seattle). She is featured in Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, And Japan and Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy by Sondra Horton Fraleigh. She performs frequently at the Seattle Japanese Garden where she is a docent. Joan is a founding member of DAIPANbutoh Collective which produces an annual butoh festival in Seattle.
Workshop
Kursraum/ppWerkraum Warteck/ Basel, Burgweg 15
20 march 17-21h
21/22 march 13-17h
costs: 190.-/ 160.-
Deadline of application: 1st of march
your application is valuable as soon as you made the moneytransfer. contact und info: ghisalbertiflavia@hotmail.com
Performances
21 march 22h Performance Improvisation with Joan Laage// Kulturbeiz 113/ ppWarteck/ Basel http://kulturbeiz113.ch/
22 march 19h Performance with students // Münsterplatz/ Basel
(everyone who might perform bring dark clothing , also dark shoes/boots and make sure any clothes can get dirty because we’ll be on the ground as well)