Category: butoh
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For Cara, Vanessa, and Jeanie
A Celebration of Life If I Die–Pablo Neruda IfI die, survive me with such sheer force that you awaken the furies of the pallid and the cold, from south to south lift your indelible eyes, from sun to sun dream through your singing mouth, I don’t want your laughter or your steps to waver, I…
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HAPPY HANUKKAH
Afraid of the Dust “Afraid of the dust, closely peering at fragments, we go cautiously among little things, finer and finer, till no one is able to find us and we can follow where the labyrinth wants us to go. Oh, do you remember when the days were fastened to wheels of a wagon…
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Don’t Eat the Frankin Fish
OPENNESS By Adyashanti “Openness has no particular location. It seems to be everywhere. It has room for anything. There can be a thought or no thought. There can be a feeling or no feeling. There can be sounds. There can be silence. Nothing disturbs openness. Nothing disturbs your true nature. We only get disturbed when……
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Obama Yes, Gay Marriage Yes
…”the answer to every question was ultimately the same answer. It is the answer that each of us has to come to for ourselves, the answer that each one of us needs to discover through our own process of self-inquiry. That answer is simply, “I am.” What is surrender? “I am surrender.” Surrender isn’t something…
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Seattle Butoh Festival Gearing up for Fabulous!!
SU-EN performing Friday Oct 26th SOOT In a space of incompleteness She senses her way Following the fragrance of powdery black Softly licking a barely visible wound Listening through fingertips Skin ripped, healing with an itch What remains when pain leaves? When civilisation falls asleep? Bodies shimmering Embracing the world Choreography and dance: SU-EN (Sweden)…
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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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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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