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Vangeline is a dancer, teacher and choreographer from France. She is a Butoh artist and the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater, a Dance company founded in December 2002. The Vangeline Theater’s mission statement is to educate the public through performances and workshops, and to utilize dance and various forms of artistic explorations as healing tools for our community.
Vangeline has taught Butoh workshops and classes at New York University, Brooklyn College, STAC (Herricks High school), Robert Junior School of the Arts, Battery Dance company, Links Hall, The Jewish Community Center, Bikram Yoga Chelsea, Capoeira Angola, Dance Mission Theater San Francisco, and Bayview Correctional facility in Manhattan. She has taught incarcerated women, high school students, MFA students, senior citizens, dancers, adult beginners. She also coaches actors, singers and performers privately on specific performance projects.
Vangeline first started studying Butoh, a Japanese style of Ritual Dance, with Diego Piñón from the Butoh Ritual Mexicano. With Diego, she studied Bioenergetics, Core Energetics, and Gestalt; as well as theater techniques (Ritual Theater), and various release techniques.
She was invited to Japan to deepen her study of Japanese Butoh by Master Tetsuro Fukuhara and trained and performed with him in Tokyo. Among her other teachers are the renowned Butoh masters Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai, Yumiko Yushioka, Ko Murobushi, and more recently Butoh master Katsura Kan, who personally invited her to further her studies and perform with him in 2009.
In addition to her butoh training, Vangeline has also trained extensively in jazz dance, Katherine Dunham technique, Restifo technique, Alexander and Klein techniques, yoga, ballet, contemporary dance.
Vangeline passionately believes in guiding the actor, dancer, singer, adult beginner through a unique learning experience so that they may recover their personal energy through the study of Butoh.
Testimonials:
Michael Cavadias, actor
"My name is Michael Cavadias. I am an actor, singer and writer. I've worked in television, film (Wonder Boys) and on stage (The Citizens Band). I studied at NYU's experimental theatre wing. I've had the chance, over the years to work with some amazing directors and teachers such as Curtis Hanson and Andre Gregory. On my most recent project, “The Mystery of Claywoman” at The New Museum I had the opportunity to work with Vangeline. I have to say she rivals any teacher or director I have had in her ability to completely and quickly transform my work and my relationship to it. I had been working on this piece for over a year. Vangeline came in a few days before the performance and worked with me on my physicality. That first encounter with her so fundamentally deepened my understanding of a character I had written that I went home and rewrote part of the show. I can honestly say I don't know what I would have done without her.
I hope more performers have the opportunity to work with her as she is truly among the great teachers of our time."
Raquel Almazan writer/performer
"Having trained with Vangeline for two years and working with here on my own solo work has been a catalyst for my growth as an artist and in the butoh form. Her technique is so inviting to artist of all levels of butoh exposure. In her sessions there is a true space of limitless possibilites. Going to the deep places that my work required to explore. Most importantly Vangeline offers what most instructors take a lifetime to develop, the ability to take you on a massive journey. A journey that moves you through space,
emotional dimensions and your unlocked truths. "
www.raquelalmazan.com
Irena Grgona, Actor
"I feel that Vangeline's work and the high artistic standards that she upholds complement the Meisner acting, movement, voice and masks techniques that I have studied at William Esper. I would highly recommend her classes to any actors wishing to uncover, explore and express sides of themselves and their humanity creatively in a safe and stimulating environment. Her gentleness, love for people and Butoh, made this an extremely inspiring and safe environment in which to explore, break free and create without the pressure of performance. She is one of the most passionate, generous, gentle and gifted artist and person that I know. "
www.irenagrgona.co.uk
Stanka Usha Tsonkova, visual artist, 57 years old
"Thank you, Vangeline, for your generous feminine energy! I believe this is the begining of a healing process which I will keep developing..."
Stacia, Performing Arts High School student (STAC)
"Dear Vangeline,
You have been such an inspiration for me for the past few months. You working with us has opened my mind to new, more expressive ways to dance, and you have taught me how to put my soul on stage, not just as a performance, but as an offering, putting all inhibitions aside. Thank you for all you have taught me."
Nick Gorham, Actor
"I have to say that the class I came to as absolutely amazing and very liberating. I Just wanted to let you know that after that one class, I want to make this a practice."
Richard Favaro, Student, Ithaca
"Vangeline has something very valuable to offer - This class will open you up and change you; physical movements, concentration - compassion and connection - very intense - very effective - especially good If you are shy and inhibited - be prepared to experience being REAL. "
Amanda Mee Ae Caughey, dancer
"Vangeline offers her knowledge, heart, and soul, to each participant of the class, responding energetically to everyone's individual needs. Through her words, and presence, I feel energized to push past the limits of my body and mind, and safe to release emotional blockages, and express my true heart's desires. She provides an environment where I can explore my true being, and push through my fears. Her classes are an oasis which offer an authentic connection to others, and my purest self."
Kat Mac Millan, performer, doula, mother
"When I work with Vangeline I am immediately reminded on a basic visceral level WHY I perform, and WHO I am. Vangeline, with her precise care and strong direction creates a space where I immediately feel safe enough to touch my truth and vulnerability, my strength and humor and then dance and move from this place. In a quest for authenticity and excellence both onstage and in daily life, my work with Vangeline is fundamental. She offers each one an opportunity to access themselves and then, through vigorous investigation open and express like never before."
Shoshana Green, Dance therapist
"Vangeline's teaching provided me an unforgettable opportunity to deeply feel, express and shed layers of conditioning which so often hide my humanity. The explorations in her workshops allowed me to deeply listen and respond to a raw honesty in movement, which continues to impact the quality of my artistic and daily life but also the creative energy I offer back to the community.
Eva Perrotta, Choreographer, Nu Dance Theater:
"I have been working with Vangeline since a few years. Her work is always pushing my boundaries helping me to dig deeper into my personal journey. Connecting with my core, with what is essential, and forgetting about the rest. Forgetting about all I learned before everything become possible, open for me to explore. She is always leading me in a intense emotional journey, where my body is telling me as I go along the story.
Connecting with myself, and with others, with no judgement, deeper, and to a strong emotional level. Vangeline is creating a safe and inspirational environment to explore, breaking social and conventional boundaries, allowing to be true to ourselves, and to share.
Vangeline has also been leading workshops for my dance company, helping the dancers, to release their emotional dimension to the dance, not being afraid of showing their hidden parts, and discovering their freedom.
The intensity of her work is unique and deeply inspiring to me."
Kenneth Colao, assistant superintendent/Programs,
Bayview Correctional Facility.
about the " Dream a dream project"
" I believe that all the elements you have instilled in the participants such as respect, hard work, commitment, and team work, are all attributes which help the rehabilitation of our population. It is evident to me that these participants have had a growth in self esteem by being part of this program.."
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