Butoh Workshop Series with Vangeline
Hosted by Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute
Alice in Wonderland: from Macro to Micro
Mastering micro-movements and micro-expressions in Butoh
Fall down the rabbit hole and learn techniques to shift from macro to micro in this exciting 3-day butoh workshop.
This workshop is open level; beginners are welcome. Participants can take single days only.
Come take the workshop in a costume of your choice!
Dates:
Friday, January 24, 2020, 6 to 8 pm
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 1 to 6 pm
Sunday, January 26, 5 to 8 pm
Location:
Cameo Studio A
307 West 43rd Street
NY NY 10036
A, C, E to 42nd street — Port Authority
Fees: 3 days: $100
Single Days:
Friday, January 24, 2020, 6 to 8 pm — $20
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 1 to 6 pm — $50
Sunday, January 26, 5 to 8 pm — $30
About Vangeline
Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form Butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century, and the founder of the New York Butoh Institute and the New York Butoh Institute Festival. She is a 2018 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Choreography.
Vangeline's work has been heralded in publications such as the New York Times (“captivating”), Los Angeles Times, (“moves with the clockwork deliberation of a practiced Japanese Butoh artist”), and LA Weekly to name a few. She has received 4 star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival 2015, and her work has been praised by US and international critics. More recently, her solo Hijikata Mon Amour received critical acclaim in New York Butoh Institute Festival 2019 (“a triumphant experience for both performer and viewer” –Broadway World).
She is the founder of the 12-year running, award-winning program “Dream a Dream Project", which brings butoh dance to incarcerated men and women at correctional facilities across New York State. Widely regarded as an expert in her field, Vangeline has lectured about butoh at Cornell University, New York University, Brooklyn College, CUNY and Princeton University (Princeton Atelier). She has taught and performed internationally Chile, Hong Kong, Germany, Denmark, France, UK, and Taiwan.
Vangeline is the winner of the 2015 Gibney Dance's Beth Silverman-Yam Social Action Award and the 2019 Janet Arnold Award from the Society of Antiquaries of London. Film projects include a starring role alongside actors James Franco and Winona Ryder in the feature film by director Jay Anania, 'The Letter (2012-Lionsgate). She has performed with/for Grammy Award Winning artists SKRILLEX and Esperanza Spalding, and her work is the subject of CNN’s Great Big Story - "Learning to Dance with your Demons". She is the author of an upcoming book about butoh.
Payment are non-refundable; read our studio policy here: https://www.vangeline.com/studio-policy
The Vangeline Theater does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identification. Our classes are open to everyone interested in studying butoh. Our workshops and classes are trauma-informed. We welcome students with disabilities, including students with hearing impairment, and/or students who are visually impaired or wheelchair-bound students. Our classes are open level and beginners are welcome.
Our Butoh classes are trauma-informed; however, we recommend that prior to taking any class, prospective students familiarize themselves with our studio policy, particularly students with a history of PTSD or students with any mental health condition. Please read OUR STUDIO POLICY before taking a class. Thank you!
Questions: Email butohinstitute@gmail.com
Illustration by Thats’ Original.
Part 2 of this workshop will take place on:
Friday, February 28, 2020, 6 to 9 pm
Saturday, February 29, 2020, 1 to 5 pm
Sunday, March 1st, 5 to 8 pm
More info here