Butoh Class with Margherita Tisato

Sunday, September 28, 2022
5:00-7:00 pm EST

115 Wooster Street

2nd floor dance studio

Hosted by Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute

$25

Margherita is a movement practitioner and a seeker of somatic wisdom and integration.

As a principal dancer with the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble she has danced with the company for over 10 years. She’s a founding member of Dances We Dance, and is also a Isadora Duncan dancer, studying and performing with Dances by Isadora. As a Butoh artist and teacher, Margherita worked with The Vangeline Theater for over 10 years and has been leading classes and workshops nationally and internationally both independently and as a representative of the New York Butoh Institute. She started Butoh-Somatics, a class inspired by somatic movement principles led through Butoh-based improvisational techniques, during the pandemic and led weekly online classes until this spring.

She facilitates and presents work through a range of movement techniques spanning from modern and contemporary dance, to Butoh, shibari and flesh hook suspension and her offerings are informed by all her practices and interests, including seemingly less embodied subjects like poetry, metaphors, neuroscience, and music.

Aside from performance, Margherita is a movement educator focusing on anatomy, somatic movement, and Trauma-Informed yoga, and her work includes teaching in prisons, therapeutic rehabilitation and alternative to incarceration facilities, as well as individuals affected by Trauma.

She has co-created a curriculum in Embodied Pedagogy for the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and is currently working on a research grant to increase emotion detection and processing through embodiment for folk dealing with addiction.

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