Butoh Curious Chi

Free Student Performance bam bam boom____

By

Sara D Zalek

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1–2 minutes

To read

June 1, 6pm
Links Hall, 3111 N. Western Ave

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Min Yoon has brought her work to us from Berlin, and for 4 consecutive days we have worked through images and themes of violence, victim, perpetrator, joker, and supported each other with our hands, faces, and hearts expressing all together.

In Mins words:
transforming / expressing
intensities / violent impulses
recently saw an enzo sign… a sign of world without beginning or end.

For bodies that remember violence and dance to integrate the forces that have erupted, damaged, hurt
For the perpetrators, victims, and plurality, polarity, and community within us
For bodies navigating the dance of life with inner | outer violence, relational violence, personal, and political violence

Hiroko Tamano

This 1 minute excerpt gives a taste of Butoh legend Hiroko Tamano’s teaching, philosophies, and movement. In the “Dance of Life: a Prayer in 4 Directions”, Hiroko has built upon this Indigenous practice learned from Txi Wizz (Canadian Buffoon) over 40 years ago.

She has imbued it with her own movements and philosophy as a gift of healing and empowerment to an anxious world. In her words, “this dance form gives ‘presentness’,” and awareness of the directions “gives ‘no confusion’ to the prayer.”

Dance of Life