Month: September 2012
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“If you try to win the war with your mind you’ll be at war forever” Adyashanti
We begin training with concentration to still our minds, to prepare, but finally our aim is to let it move into allowing our dance to be what emerges. This way we have the raw immediately lived truth of our being on stage.
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Seattle Butoh Festival WAVE III
DAIPANbutoh Collective presents Seattle Butoh Festival Oct 22- 28 Workshops, performances, and artist talk. Check it out at daipanbutoh.com or Facebook
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Who Am I?
<stro This simple yet profound question, “Who Am I?” can then reveal one’s self not to be the endless tyranny of the ego-personality, but objectless Freedom of Being- Primordial Consciousness in which all states and all objects come and go as manifestatons of the Eternal Unborn Self that YOU ARE. Adyashanti
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Why Don’t We Do It At The Fringe
“Higher Ground” Butoh Dance Theater By Helen Thorsen With dancers: Mary Cutrera, Briana Jones, Lin Lucas, Alan Sutherland Thursday Sept 20th 6:00 pm Friday & Saturday Sept 21st & 22nd at 7:30 pm Sunday Sept 23rd 5:00 pm This dance takes a penetrating look at mental illness in contemporary society. Higher Ground the dance explores…
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Fringing soon
Thorsen’s“Higher Ground” takes a penetrating look at mental illness in contemporary society. This work is a butoh performance for 5 dancers. the dance explores the struggle to maintain control in the face of madness, and the humanness and vulnerability of a soul coming to grips with their own unraveling. The inspiration for the work comes…
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Upcoming Friday and Saturday Performances
Wayne Horwitz, Tucker Martine, Yukio Suzuki perform butoh and very cool music at the Royal Room in Columbia city. Sat they perform at the Rainier Beach art walk. Sat 1pm to 3 Joan Laage and dancers at Seike Garden 138th and 24th s in Sea Tac,
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Fringe Me Sept 20th – 23rd West Hall
“Like the small hole by the path-side something lives in, in me are lives I do not know the names of, nor the fates of, nor the hungers of or what they eat. They eat of me. Of small and blemished apples in low fields of me whose rocky streams and droughts I do not…
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Fringe On
“…where a woman’s deep life funds her mundane life. This old woman stands between the worlds of rationality and mythos. She is the knuckle bone on which these two worlds turn. This land between the worlds is that inexplicable place we all recognize once we experience it, but it’s nuances slip away and shape-change if…
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White Autumn Breeze Evening of Butoh and live Sound Sept 8th 225 N 70th st 7:30
Taoist Studies Institute Shakuhachi & Flute by Larry Lawson Butoh Performance by Kaoru Okumura & Helen Thorsen Seeing A Friend off Toward Hsi-k’ou Wild geese go like leaves down the sky. How should that be easy for the traveler to hear? A thousand mountains, ten thousand streams, where can we meet again? Our faces won’t…
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