[PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Listserv] Saturday - Butoh Workshop with Master teacher, Katsura Kan

[nicole bindler]

Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to study with Katsura
Kan, a Master Butoh dancer from Japan. There's still time to
preregister and get the discounted rate! The workshop will be from 2-5
p.m. at the Parlor, 1170 S. Broad St., at a sliding scale rate of
$15-35 (prereg), $20-$40 at the door. ($2 off scale w/ dance pass)
What a bargain! To preregister email nicolebindler at gmail.com with the
word "preregister" in the subject heading.

Kan will also be performing at a Bowerbird show that evening with
saxophonist, Jack Wright.
http://www.bowerbird.org/newsite/events/080426/ Please see below for
Kan's bio
and workshop description. Please spread the word. This is an amazing
and rare opportunity! -Nicole Bindler

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Based in KYOTO since 1979 Master Butoh artist, choreographer and
teacher Katsura Kan is a Butoh artist among the ranks of Japan's first
generation of Butoh. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe
"Byakkosha" (1979-1981). Kan has worked with what he calls dancers in
remote locations throughout Africa, Europe, South East Asia for the
past 28 years, in addition to performing his creative works in
cosmopolitan cultures. Kan graduated from Buddhism University (Kyoto)
and studied Noh theater with master Hirota (Kongoh School). In 1986,
He established his own multinational Dance Troupe named "KATSURA Kan &
SALTIMBANQUES" whose purpose was the free interpretation of divers
genres as a contemporary dance scene. In 1992, he founded another
research group, HARVESTING BEAUTY IN THE FIELD who aims contemporary
Asian art form among the Asian artists for 4 years throughout Japan
and Indonesia. In 1997, Kan has been a recipient of multiple grants
from Japan Foundation and worked on numerous collaboration projects
with researchers, visual arts, music, computer art, architecture,
dramatic art during his residence in Thailand for 5 years. In 2001, he
started his extensive performance career throughout the world. In
2006, he co-founded together with Gabriella Daris, the butoh
variations collective salto donec moriar. His significant Dance
theatre works are "Bhagavad-gita" from MAHABHARATA of Indian
historical Play, " La Mort D'Empedocle" of Greek tragedy in Paris and
"Curious Fish" in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where his group got
the five star rating. Katsura Kan is seeking the globalization of
Butoh and enlightenment on the classical Japanese Noh theatre.

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Here is what Kan says about his workshop:

KATSURA Kan's workshop centers on the idea of communication between
yourself and your tradition. BUTOH, Kan believes, is capable of break
through our conscious barrier and reaching our precognitive identity,
which we all hold deep within us. The body is "TIME SHIP" to carry
your ancestor's soul from the past to the future. Who has been wearing
the costume called "Tradition". Kan will guide you the way to find
your costume through silent walk, create the rhythmic patterns in the
stillness and identify the quality of movement with non human
movement.

Kan's Butohworkshop is aiming to focus dark-side of the moon for the
sake of new movement of performing arts on the stage since 1979. I'd
like to share the idea of Butoh with you from its history nearly 50
years since 1959 which I've been learning from many Masters especially
Butoh Founder, Noh Master of Kongoh School and Ben SUHARUTO in
Jogjakarta in Indonesia.