Japanese Contemporary Dance Butoh – Workshop & Performance with Katsura Kan

09 – 13 Dec 2015
The Black Box & Kinergie Studio

From the organizer:

Following the successful debut in 2013, the leading Japanese artist Katsura Kan will come back to Hanoi to introduce Butoh Dance – Workshop and Performance.

Starting as an Experimental Performance in 1950s-60s, one of Japanese avant-garde art movement, Butoh is called “Surrealism of Flesh” nowadays as a contemporary dance form.

1. Video Lecture

Time: 4pm – 5.30pm October 12th, 2013
Venue: Kinergie Studio, 7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
Fee (after concession): Free

This is a presentation about “Surrealism of Body” – a short history about a Japanese avant-garde art movement after WW Ⅱ in 1950s-60s as an origin of Butoh.

2. Butoh Dance – Practical workshop

Time: 18.00 pm – 22.00pm 10th, 11th, 12th December 2015
Venue:
1. The BlackBox, 2nd floor 56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi: 10th, 11th December 2015
2. Kinergie Studio, 7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi: 12th December 2015
Fee (after concession): VND 700,000 (For Kinergie Students, the fee is VND 500,000)

Language: Vietnamese, English
Dress Code: Comfortable, easy for movements

The Butoh workshop explores the idea of “curious body” through the Group Observation of daily life, which is the key to Kan’s understanding of main stream of Butoh as a movement ideas. Participants will be instructed how to “awake the noise”, “focus on the other side of one’s reality” through his experiences of the significant elements of Butoh.

The workshop is suitable for everyone with and without previous Butoh experience.

Participants from workshop will have a performance on 12th Dec evening at Kinergie Studio.

3. Butoh Performance

Time: 20.00 – 22.00 pm, Sunday 13th Dec 2015
Venue: Kinergie Studio, 7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
Fee (after concession): VND 150,000

Katsura Kan, Master of Butoh dance from Japan will perform his solo, and the collaboration work choreographed by Kan and Do Hoang Thi Ngoc, with the Kinergie dance group.

Participant: artists, dancers, and everyone who are interested in creative movements and dance.

Language: English – Vietnamese

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