Category: butoh
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Training Notes
In butoh you can experience a state of mind that is free and clear of doubt. An unwavering mind unswayed by the ups and downs of fear, and you can glimpse a spark of unconditional acceptance and presence. There is no hesitation only honesty. The results of being present allows you the energy for performance.…
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30/30 tonight New Dances at Velocity Dance Center 1621 12th Ave 8pm
“In the process of creating an indigenous form of modern dance, Japanese butoh founders discovered a universal poetry of the body. Rather than transcending the human condition, butoh asks us to descend into it- down into the turbulence, awkwardness and uncertainty of life- and from there, deep in the thick of things, we discover our…
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30/30 New Dances Tonight Velocity 1621 12th Ave Seattle 8pm
“MA the space between, is the global connective tissue of butoh, allowing the permeable passage of images in butoh alchemy. Moving through ma,butoh-a awaken self=reflexive moments in themselves and their audiences. Ma is not merely a perceptual and spatial concept; it is also an expansive state of mind. The mind that has been freed from…
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Higher Ground June 23rd Velocity Dance Center 8pm
It takes one of the Suns protons a 100,000 years to travel from the core to the outer edge of the sun where it’s released and 8 minutes later it reaches us in the form of sunlight. The journey takes so long because it keeps bumping into plasma particles along the way. This is so…
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Training Notes
Whenever we begin to evaluate, deciding that we should or should not do this or that, then we have already associated our practice or our knowledge with categories, one pitted against the other, and that is spiritual materialism, the false spirituality of our spiritual advisor. Whenever we have a dualistic notion such as, “I am…
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30/30 New Dance Works at Velocity June 22 & 23rd 8 pm
I have early bird tickets for $15. email, text or call me.
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30/30 June 22nd & 23rd Velocity 8 pm
SCARS They tell how it was, and how time came along, and how it happened again and again. They tell the slant life takes when it turns and slashes your face as a friend. Any wound is real. In church a woman lets the sun find her cheek, and we see the lesson: there are years…
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30/30 June 22 & 23rd Velocity Dance Center Seattle
Alleluia! light burst from your ubtouched womb like a flower on the farther side of death. The world-tree is blossoming. Two realms become one. Hildegard of Bingen
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Higher Ground
ANOTHER DAY We would have spent sharing it now You have made a capsule You have wed yourself so neatly I try to pack My nest of thought into your capsule we find no room One step back and the night licks it’s sealed eye like a lover Yet instead of pleasure It is a…
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