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Butoh Workshop with Vangeline


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Online Butoh Workshop with Vangeline

Hosted by Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute

as part of The New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020

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This workshop will take place via Zoom and is open level; beginners are welcome. Participants can take single days only.

Dates:

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 12 to 3 pm

Wednesday, October 21, 6 to 8 pm

Location:

ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Once you register online, we will send you a Zoom link and password to log in.

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Fees: 2 days: $50

Single Days:

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 12 to 3 pm–$30

Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 6 to 8 pm — $20

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.

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.

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. Please read OUR STUDIO POLICY before taking a class. Thank you!


Payments are non-refundable.

Questions: Email butohinstitute@gmail.com

Photo by Brian Kwon. All rights reserved.


This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.


Earlier Event: October 18
BUTOH WORKSHOP WITH YUKO KASEKI