butoh festival 2003 -Londyn

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Full Festival Programme 2003:

Butoh: Dancing on the Borderline

The full year-long programme of workshops, performances, associated festival
performance events, conference, platform and lectures provides a rare
opportunity to experience work by Japanese and Western practitioners who are
recognised internationally as being at the forefront of experimentation and
engagement with Butoh, the radical approach to dance that emerged from Japan
in the late 1950's. Produced by Marie-Gabrielle Rotie for Butoh UK.

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Double-Bill performances April 3rd, 4th, 5th 2003. at 8pm
Jacksons Lane Theatre, 291 Archway Road, N3 ( Highgate tube)
Tickets for each night £10/8 Box Office: 0208 341 4421

April 3rd Masaki Iwana - Floating atop a hesitant heart- solo.
Masaki Iwana is considered to be one of the most acclaimed Butoh performers
in Japan today, one of the rare Butoh performers in the world who maintains
the original Butoh Spirit. His performances are distinguished by a tremendous
inner concentration and stillness, his body shifting seemingly imperceptibly
between states. 'Butoh is an ineffable kind of behaviour produced by the body
itself, possessing neither name nor form'.( Masaki Iwana 1995)

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie and Company Coelacanth - The Collector - trio
Three women are captured and held as specimens in the room of a Collector of
Butterflies. Themes of confinement and freedom evoked by commissioned
sculpture-costumes by Lindsay John. A choreography of stillness, minimal
distillation and strong emotional presence complimented by Prize -winning
composer Nick Parkin's electroacoustic sound, atmospheric lighting by Karen
Norris and haunting fragments of text and projected film.
The Collector also shows at the 291 Gallery in June and The Place, November
2003.

April 4th Sayoko Onishi - Chaser - solo
An expressionist solo about a man who is chased by the devil and is also the
devil himself. Onishi has twice presented her work in the UK before to
tremendous response ' she moved with the fluidity of liquid gold' ( Total
Theatre) and she has won numerous prestigious prizes for her athletic
performances which marry Butoh, ballet and contemporary dance to emotive
effect.

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie and Company Coelacanth - The Collector

April 5th Liz Lea/Rotie - Refract - duet.
Rotie joins forces with Contemporary dancer Liz Lea:Two bodies neither flesh
nor shadow sculpted by the forces of light and water.
'minimal movement to maximal effect .. a wonderfully evocative piece of quiet
intensity ... (Dance Europe). Film by Lucy Baldwyn, Sound by Nick Parkin and
lighting by Karen Norris completes the setting for this poetic duet.

Sayoko Onishi - Chaser


April 12th Platform and April 13th Conference at

at Chisenhale Dance Space, 64-84 Chisenhale Road E3.
For Bookings and full programme information contact: 0208 981 6617

April 12th Butoh UK Platform 8pm £5/4
4 young UK artists/groups experimenting with Butoh in varied approaches
ranging from pure movement works to those embracing combined art forms.
Selected by panel from an open submission -See below for application
information.

April 13th World of Butoh Conference 10.30 am - 5pm £10
Consisting of workshops, lectures, talks and plenty of debate with writers
and practitioners. Speakers include Fran Barbe, Carole Kew, Masaki Iwana,
Stuart Lynch, Rachel Sweeney; workshop led by Jeannie Donald on her link
between dance movement therapy and Butoh and Marie-Gabrielle Rotie introduces
her personal training approach which values stillness and interiority. Video
footage of Kazuo Ohno, Ko Murobushi and Hijikata will be shown.

Workshops
Bookings contact: 0208 674 1518 email [e-mail]

Masaki Iwana April 7th -11th 11am-5pm cost £130/110 at Chisenhale Dance
Space.
Open for performers, researchers, dancers, visual artists, architects and all
other professional artists who might be interested in participation, the
course provides body training in contemporary Japanese dance butoh and the
way they can be individually interpreted as a body language.
The course suggests a system of training exercises in 4 directions: body
training; defined dance; inspiration dance; free dance.

Katsuro Kan May 17th/18th Jerwood Space £70/60 all levels. Back after the
success of his workshop for IWF!

Tetsuro Fukuhara June30th-July 4th cost £130/110 5 days 11am-5pm venue
LBAC, Eastbourne House, Bullards Place, E2.
Suitable for all levels - particularly mature movers and beginners. Pure
Improvisation approach with emphasis upon experiencing internal and external
space and relation to digital media. Workshop participants are invited to
also perform as part of a site-specific work. A great communal experience!
See below for details.

Ko Murobushi September cost £100/ 90 precise dates and venue tbc. Advance
booking strongly reccomended!
Intermediate level. Quite physically demanding and based upon Ko's unique
choreographic approach which instills the discipline and excitement of some
of the pure forms of Butoh.
Associated Festival Event.
Flesh Mirror
Yael Karavan, Yumino Seki, Shane Irwin and Fran Barbe present 3 evenings of
works inspired by Butoh which relate to the unique atmopshere of the venue.
27th, 28th and 29th March at 8pm The Space, 269 West Ferry Road, E14 3RS cost
£5/4 Box Office 0207 515 7799

Cafe Reason 21/22nd March 8pm Pegasus Theatre Oxford 'The if Path' box office
01865 722851



Future Performances
.
Tetsuro Fukuhara and Space Dance co. July 5th 4pm (site-specific location
at Mile End Ecology Pavilion) Free Entry.

Tetsuro, an internationally acclaimed practitioner, is a well-know visitor to
the UK and his Space Dance company approach involves research into the
meeting of body, architectural space and digital space. His company
comprising UK and Japanese artists and workshop participants will perform in
a site-specific venue

Ko Murobushi September The Place, Robin Howard DanceTheatre (final date to
be confirmed) cost £5-15 Box Office:

Ko is a living legend, and is for Butoh what Pina Bausch is for contemporary
dance. He has been hugely instrumental since the 1970's through groups such
as Ariadone/ Carlotta Ikeda, and Sebi in developing Butoh in the West and is
a regular workshop and coaching teacher each year at ImpulseTanz in Vienna.
His Edge 01 solo has toured the USA, Mexico, Europe, Japan to great acclaim.
Originally a mountain monk he saw Hijikata perform and from their decided to
devote his life to dance.

Ko Murobushi and Marie-Gabrielle Rotie Duet
Choreographed and performed together. Research showing in London. venue and
date tbc.


For Further information about the programme, interviews, photos, press
tickets etc please contact:

Butoh UK/ Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
7 Trinity Rise London SW2 2QP
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Butoh UK Platform 2003
Application guidlines:

Deadline March 12th 5pm.

Butoh UK (formerly London Butoh Network) invites applications for
participation in a 1 day platform hosted and funded by Chisenhale Dance
Space.

As part of a year long series of events, Butoh: Dancing on the Borderline,
curated and produced by Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Chisenhale Dance Space are
hosting a 1 day Platform on April 12th and a 1 day conference on April 13th
2003.

The Platform is open to any artist or group resident in the UK who is/are
clearly