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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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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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Training Notes
The human shape is a ghost made of distraction and pain. Sometimes pure light, sometimes cruel, trying wildly to open, this image tightly held within itself.
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FRINGE BABY FRINGE
Higher Ground part of the Seattle Fringe Festival. We will perform at West Hall on Capital Hill Thurs Sept 20th 6pm, Fri And Sat 7:30pm, Sunday 5pm. Ya all come!
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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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God’s Sneeze The Big Bang
Everything since the big bang has become increasingly disordered The arrow of entropy The liberation of entropy Everything will move so far apart atoms, stars even black holes That even time will cease But now Hit and runs Drive bys Porno Homicide Love Friendship Kindness Courage As we spin through space
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