Category: Dance/Performance
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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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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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Seike Garden Performance
Song Of The Reed …I want a heart that is torn open with longing so that I might share the pain of this love Whoever has been parted from his source longs to return to that state of union. Rumi
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Sept 8th Performance with Kaoru and Helen
Give Me Ecstasy Give me ecstacy, give me naked wonder, O my Creator! Give birth to the Beloved in me, and let this Lover die! let a thousand wranglings desires become one Love! This ring of desire I wear is the seal of Solomon. I know I have it only on loan, so I never…
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Fringe
I Stand Alone A Falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river. Vulnerable while they ride the wind, they coast and glide with ease. Dew is heavy on the grass below, the spider’s web is ready. Heaven’s ways include the human: among the sorrows, I stand alone. Tu…
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Everything 4 Everyone Festival
We will be performing Supporting Occupy Seattle and radical political workshops tomorrow. -check out their website. Butoh processional begins at 2:30until 4:30
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Heart’s mirror clear reflects beyond fetter. The void stripped clean, innumerable worlds. All things in their majesty, shadowed and seen there. The single gleaming jewel: not witin, not without. Hsuan Chueh (665-713)
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Performance this Sat at the Japanese Gardens 1pm
SAY YOU ARE LONELY More still than a star, one thought shies by: what if the sky loved you? But nobody knew? But that magnet in space pulled hard? But you acted like nothing at all was reaching or calling for you? More still than a star going by, that thought stays. A day at…
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