Community Sunday Butoh Class is on pause but please susbcribe to newsletter to hear about upcoming workshops soon.
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Community Butoh Class is curated by Butohsf teachers w/ guest Butoh artist/teachers rotating each season (Fall and Spring). Class is open to beginners and advanced
This Butoh Class utilizes energetic, imagistic, and somatic practices to help students expand their felt, embodied expression. The class supports students to dive into personal and universal metaphors and connect to their "own dance" in support of individual and collective transformation. |
TEACHERS BIOS:
Shoshana Green Shoshana is a Butoh and movement artist, teacher, curator and presenter for Butoh Programming in San Francisco. Her programming is dedicated to the appreciation, education and contemporary movement of the Butoh art-form by offering public workshops and performances through collaborations with International and National Butoh Artists. Shoshana studied contemporary, Ballet and West African dance at University of Oregon and San Francisco State University. Shoshana draws from her studies with renown Butoh teachers & masters, Vangeline, Diego Piñon, Katsura Kan, Natsu Nakajima, Akira Kasai, Tetsuro Fukuhara, Tadashi Endo and Yumiko Yoshioka. Shoshana has a Masters in Somatic Psychology and is a somatic practitioner and psychotherapist.
Shoshana sees movement as a continuous process of transformation. Through listening and moving from subtle impulses with concentration and awareness we discover and explore creative unpredictable movement from our organic human experience. Classes are supportive and allow us to start with our present moment experience enabling us to begin with a renewed sense of curiosity and appreciation for the unknown. We can lean into an expression that comes from the stream of our lives, our bodies and a wider consciousness. Shoshana sees Butoh as a mirror that reflects the full spectrum of our feelings, experiences and ways we have been influenced by our social context. Movement exploration is an opportunity to integrate and own lost parts of ourselves through the gateway of our bodies. Classes taught by Shoshana include: Energetic movement exercises, Sensitivity training, Ritual movement, Exploring body-mind states and timelessness, emptying the body, moving from water body, feeling your weight/being moved/ body listening, energetic movement exercises
Megan Nicely approaches "butoh" as a somatic training and experimental quality within choreography and live performance. An artist/scholar working at the intersection of release-style postmodern dance and Japanese butoh, her overarching interest is in states of consciousness experienced through the physical body. As a teacher, Megan seeks to bring others toward finding a sense of ease and alert presence in the body informed by anatomy, somatics, and actualizing what has not yet been thought. Megan began her studies in the early years of the San Francisco Butoh Festival with artists such as Akira Kasai, Yumiko Yoshioka, Saga Kobayashi, Setsuko Yamada, Katsura Kan, and Maureen Fleming, at the Colorado Dance Festival with Eiko and Koma, and later visited Japan to take classes with Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno, Akiko Motofuji, and in Noh Theater and Costuming. She performed with Akira Kasai in Exusiai, was a company member in Brechin Flournoy's Underbelly Dance Theater Beast, contributed to several projects with artist Leigh Evans, and in 2009 worked with Tadashi Endo and director Doris Dörrie on the opera Admeto, presented at the Edinburgh International Festival. Her own work has been presented in the San Francisco and New York Butoh Festivals and her writing has been published inTDR, Performance Research, Dancer Magazine and InDance. She is assistant professor in performing arts at the University of San Francisco, whose program focuses on the arts and social justice. www.megannicelydance.org
Molly Barrons is from Detroit. In 1990 she received her B.A. in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. From 1999-2002 she was the Associate Producer of the SF Butoh Festival; as a result she studied with numerous Butoh masters, some of her favorites include: Anzu Furukawa (RIP), Akira Kasai, Saga Kobayashi, Yukio Waguri, Setsuko Yamada, Yumiko Yoshioka. She worked with Hiroko & Koichi Tamano for over a decade. She also studied extensively and performed with Katsura Kan. In 2003 she created Metropolitan Butoh as a vehicle for training, performance and community.
Angela Newsham Queer artist, born and raised in Hawaii and current San Francisco resident. Through wildlife rehabilitation and data research, Angela studied the instinctual nature and spherical understanding of space and time that birds of prey live by. She explores how our human bodies have inhibitions to clear expression and lived stories that emerge in performance art space. She has trained extensively in Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Sonja Riket and in Butoh with Vangeline, Yumiko Yoshioka, Diego Pinon, Natsu Nakajima, Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya.
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Shoshana sees movement as a continuous process of transformation. Through listening and moving from subtle impulses with concentration and awareness we discover and explore creative unpredictable movement from our organic human experience. Classes are supportive and allow us to start with our present moment experience enabling us to begin with a renewed sense of curiosity and appreciation for the unknown. We can lean into an expression that comes from the stream of our lives, our bodies and a wider consciousness. Shoshana sees Butoh as a mirror that reflects the full spectrum of our feelings, experiences and ways we have been influenced by our social context. Movement exploration is an opportunity to integrate and own lost parts of ourselves through the gateway of our bodies. Classes taught by Shoshana include: Energetic movement exercises, Sensitivity training, Ritual movement, Exploring body-mind states and timelessness, emptying the body, moving from water body, feeling your weight/being moved/ body listening, energetic movement exercises
Megan Nicely approaches "butoh" as a somatic training and experimental quality within choreography and live performance. An artist/scholar working at the intersection of release-style postmodern dance and Japanese butoh, her overarching interest is in states of consciousness experienced through the physical body. As a teacher, Megan seeks to bring others toward finding a sense of ease and alert presence in the body informed by anatomy, somatics, and actualizing what has not yet been thought. Megan began her studies in the early years of the San Francisco Butoh Festival with artists such as Akira Kasai, Yumiko Yoshioka, Saga Kobayashi, Setsuko Yamada, Katsura Kan, and Maureen Fleming, at the Colorado Dance Festival with Eiko and Koma, and later visited Japan to take classes with Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno, Akiko Motofuji, and in Noh Theater and Costuming. She performed with Akira Kasai in Exusiai, was a company member in Brechin Flournoy's Underbelly Dance Theater Beast, contributed to several projects with artist Leigh Evans, and in 2009 worked with Tadashi Endo and director Doris Dörrie on the opera Admeto, presented at the Edinburgh International Festival. Her own work has been presented in the San Francisco and New York Butoh Festivals and her writing has been published inTDR, Performance Research, Dancer Magazine and InDance. She is assistant professor in performing arts at the University of San Francisco, whose program focuses on the arts and social justice. www.megannicelydance.org
Molly Barrons is from Detroit. In 1990 she received her B.A. in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. From 1999-2002 she was the Associate Producer of the SF Butoh Festival; as a result she studied with numerous Butoh masters, some of her favorites include: Anzu Furukawa (RIP), Akira Kasai, Saga Kobayashi, Yukio Waguri, Setsuko Yamada, Yumiko Yoshioka. She worked with Hiroko & Koichi Tamano for over a decade. She also studied extensively and performed with Katsura Kan. In 2003 she created Metropolitan Butoh as a vehicle for training, performance and community.
Angela Newsham Queer artist, born and raised in Hawaii and current San Francisco resident. Through wildlife rehabilitation and data research, Angela studied the instinctual nature and spherical understanding of space and time that birds of prey live by. She explores how our human bodies have inhibitions to clear expression and lived stories that emerge in performance art space. She has trained extensively in Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Sonja Riket and in Butoh with Vangeline, Yumiko Yoshioka, Diego Pinon, Natsu Nakajima, Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya.
angelanewsham.com