YUKIO WAGURI (Kohzensha Butoh Company)   
WORKSHOP: November 3(FR) 3-6:30 PM
                        November 6(MO) 6:30-10 PM

"body as an empty vessel…"
In Waguri's workshop, with his Butoh Kaden CD-ROM, participants will have an opportunity to put the theory of "Butoh-fu" (Hijikata's choreographic methods) into practice. Working with Butoh-fu texts, Yukio will give concrete explanations to read the poetic and abstract words as practical incidents happening in the body. Words are effective tools to pull out the senses or memories carved in the body.

DENISE FUJIWARA (Fujiwara Danse Ensemble)   
WORKSHOP: November 5 & 6 (SA/SU) 10:30-1 PM

Fujiwara brings her insights as a contemporary dancer who has found bridges into the arcane art of Butoh; training the body and freeing the mind to work from vivid internal imagery and expressing it through intense physicality. Her most influential mentors include Natsu Nakajima, Bryon Brown of San Francisco's Mangrove in the 1980s, and American theatre director Anne Bogart.

DORANNE CRABLE (Kagami Butoh)   
WORKSHOP: November 5 (SA) 2-5 PM

Using Laban movement technique, Japanese classical dance, and her background in Flamenco, Doranne blends precise technical training and improvisation in workshops designed for people with or without previous experience.

JOAN LAAGE (Dappin' Butoh)   
WORKSHOP/PERFORMANCE PROJECT with Dappin' Butoh and Mount Analog

Workshop: November 6-10 (MO-FR) 2-5 PM (no singles, with full pass $50, project only $75; Butoh experience or full workshop)
Performance: November 12 (SU) 7 PM

Dappin' Butoh's artistic director Joan Laage will teach a workshop concluding in a performance of Heaven's Hate with music live by Mount Analog. Joan's teaching has its roots in Ashikawa's methods and in developmental patterning of the body, and emphasizes the elemental "nature" body that is in continual transformation. Heaven's Hate is inspired by the hungry ghosts of Buddhist mythology, Japanese Ukiyo-e paintings, and the terror inflicted upon humanity in the name of religion. Tucker Martine of Mount Analog has worked with Dappin' on several productions, and with musicians Wayne Horvitz, Bill Frisell, and Eyvind Kang.

SUSANNA AKERLUND (SU-EN)   
WORKSHOP: November 7 (TU) 6:30-10 PM
                        November 9, 10, 11 (TH/FR/SA) 10-1 PM (3-Days $75, no singles)

SU-EN's workshops are based on the methods of Hijikata, Ashikawa and Shizune. Using words of imagery and reality, the participants are taken through " conditions" of physical life. The workshop focuses on increasing bodily sensitivity and "natural" strength to achieve an ease with improvisation and an awareness that goes beyond the individual body.

SHINICHI MOMO KOGA (Ink Boat)   
WORKSHOPS: November 11 (SA) 2-5 PM
                          November 12 (SU) 10-1 PM

Shinichi Momo Koga's workshop, Pathways to Stillness, begins in the micro-cosmos of the body and slowly moves outward. Participants are challenged to attain a balance of energy and serenity…to be a raging storm in blue skies and a breath of calm in the midst of turbulence. Momo has taught movement and body theatre throughout the US and Europe since 1991. Deeply influenced by Tadashi Suzuki's Theatre as well as his work with Butoh artists Yumiko Yoshioka and Hiroko Tamano, Momo teaches a Japanese flavored art with dashes and pinches stolen from wherever he has traveled.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION/INFORMATION
Dappin Butoh: 206.526.5756  joandav@postalzone.com   
2353 N 64th Street
Seattle, WA 98103