"Growth and Decay"

Butoh Class with Madelyn Sher

Sunday September 13

5:30-7:30pm

115 Wooster Street

Dance Studio 2nd Floor

$25

In this class we will attune to the forces of growth and decay that permeate all living beings. In doing so, we embrace both our fragility and resilience, and find embodied play with the rhythms of change. The class will move through group exercises, butoh imagery, and solo improvisation.

Madelyn Sher is a dance and theater artist, educator, and native New Yorker. She is deeply interested in the sentient body: how it gathers experience, moves through systems, processes cycles of change, and negotiates the tensions between fate and agency. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals across the country, including Emory University, American College Dance Association, CUNY Lehman College, Snug Harbor Dance Festival, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Queer Butoh Festival, and WestFest: All over Westbeth. Madelyn currently dances with Nami Yamamoto, Chloe London, and Vangeline Theater, and has performed in works by Bebe Miller and Angie Hauser, Duane Lee Holland, Evan Ray Suzuki, REDi Dance Company, and others. She also has a background in acting, working in theater and television as a recurring character on the hit show, "The Baker and the Beauty." Recently, her choreographic work has been supported by a Staten Island Arts DCLA Premier Grant, an Emory Project Grant, and the 2025/2026 PASS Artist Residency at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Gardens. She has an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College and was the 2025/2026 Arts Fellow in Dance at Emory University. 

This class is non refundable

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and the City Council.