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Ren Gyo Soh's 8 weeks 20 hours Training Course: Butoh & Movement with Yokko
Class Schedule: January 30-April 18
Thursdays 7-9:30 pm
(*No class: March 5, 12, 19, April. 9)
Performance Party on Saturday, April 18
Grace & St. Paul's Church (123 West 71st Street, New York)
Class Fee:
Full: $325-
Artists & Students: $300-
Early Bird: $275-
New Year's Special Discount: $250- (Jan.1-3 only) *Limited Number
(Class size is small, so once it is sold out, we will make the waiting list)
**NO Refund Policy
Class Description:
Ren Gyo Soh offers 8 weeks training course with Yokko this spring. She has been offering 30-100 hours of Butoh & Movement training programs nationally & internationally. (Private clients to University Program: Performing Arts, Acting, Dance and Theatre) This 8 weeks 20 hours program will be the condensed version of what she has been offering to those programs and artists past years.
There is no pre-requirement for this course. (First comes first serve)
In this workshop, you will cultivate your instruments so that you may access not only internal materials but also external materials around for any creative circumstances. Through Butoh training, you will be revealing, discovering, and unfolding hidden self; which is a gift that you have, and you will be able to share them with others. You will practice to let go of your self and to be "possible body" (I call it "available body" as well.), which you may be able to transform (or become) anything else (both living objects and non-living objects). Your body is a vessel. Through movement exercises, you will learn your instruments (Body, Mind & Soul) so that you may apply them to your work functionally.
Everyone is different: When you bring an individual life into work, it will blossom with the unique surprise of each artist. Butoh brings vibrancy to your life. And it challenges your limitations physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. You will develop breathing, concentration, relaxation, emotional capacity, physical & mental stamina, and imagination. And in this way, you develop your own living body. You may experience more living than you do in your daily life. Butoh activates your vital energy.
This course incorporates Butoh Dance, Pure Movement, Noguchi Movement, Acting, Voice, Yoga & Physical Theatre (Basic Viewpoints, Basic Laban, Basic Mime, Basic Acrobat, Basic Lecoq)
"My dance is the expansion of human concept- letting a human body metamorphosis into anything including an animal, a plant, even an object which does not have a life, and the fundamental ideology of my butoh is finding the possibility." -Tatsumi Hijikata
"Butoh is a dance of life" - Kazuo Ono
"You are enough" -Elizabeth Kemp
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"There is no light without darkness" -many teachers
"Butoh is a sensation; not a presentation"-
"Butoh is breathing"
"Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in"
-Leonard Cohen
If it is hidden, there is a flower. If it is not hidden there is no flower.
-Zeami (From Flowery spirits)
About The Instructor:
YOKKO has been regularly offering workshops (Butoh & Movement, Butoh & Physical Theatre, Transformation) in several places include NYC, Atelier Teatro Fisico Performing Arts University in Turin (Italy), Edinburgh (UK), Warsaw (Poland), Izmir (Turkey), St. Lawrence University (NY), SUNY New Paltz (NY), Amherst College (MA), Actors Studio Drama School MFA, Stella Adler Academy of Acting, The Actors Studio (NYC), and at some events such as UNFIX NYC and Ecstatic Dance. She currently serves as an adjunct faculty in Movement for Actors at BFA program by the New Group at Long Island University in Brooklyn Fall-Spring 2020. Also, she is a guest choreographer for BFA in Dance at LIU Brooklyn this Fall 2019.
Yokko is an Actor & Interdisciplinary Artist from Japan, specialized in Acting, Butoh Dance, Physical Theatre, Movement, solo performance, and Yoga. She is also a choreographer, director, writer, sound designer, filmmaker, clown, Theatre educator, certified therapeutic essential yoga instructor, and USUI Jikiden Reiki Master Teacher as well. She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including "Best One-Woman Show", "Best Choreography" "Best Physical Theatre" and "Best Actress" for Butoh Medea (United Solo NYC 2014 & 2015 at Theatre Row, TVolution 2018 Hollywood Fringe Awards). Butoh Medea was selected to perform in Warsaw, Poland. (United Solo Europe 2015, Teatre Syrena), toured Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, nominated The Asian Arts Award. It has been touring Europe and Universities in the USA since 2016. (www.butohmedea.com) Other Theatre credits include Lone Wolf Tribe's Body Concert (Labapalooza! 2018 at St. Ann's Warehouse), Hide Your Fires (Pan Asian Rep's NU Works, United Solo 2017: Theatre Row), BALDY (CRS NYC, United Solo 2013, Hollywood Fringe 2013, Fringe NYC 2012), Dance Credits Include Shira Hime Ryu (NY Butoh Institute Festival 2018 at Theatre For The New City), Hijikata Tatsumi's Last Words (Dance Medium, Noguchi Room, Hijikata Archive, Keio University, 2018), ManJuShaGe:A flower on earth, A flower (Dance Medium, Noguchi Room, Hijikata Archive, Keio University, 2017), FACET (Irondale Center, White Wave, Hollywood Fringe 2013). Her choreographed work, SHINKA has been developed and received several awards including Outstanding Premiere Production of a play and Outstanding Choreography from the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation (IT Awards 2019). Yokko also acted in several local and international films, one of which is the Student Academy Winner film, Cloud-Kumo (2016). Recently she has been appearing several music videos as a Butoh dancer including Cage The Elephant (Grammy Winner - Best Rock Album 2017)- Ready To Let Go (2019), NOIA- AUSENCIAS (2019) directed by Amy Gardner, POW! - Dream Decay (2019), and Automatic - Too Much Money (2019)
She is the artistic director of an NYC based Butoh & Theatre group Ren Gyo Soh. (www.rengyosoh.com) B.A. in Theatre (UAlbany), M.F.A. in Acting (The Actors Studio) www.yokko-online.com
Awards:
Butoh Medea
Winner of Best One-Woman Show (United Solo NYC 2014)
Winner of Best Choreography (United Solo NYC 2014)
Winner of Best Physical Theatre (United Solo NYC 2015)
Winner of Best Actress (TVolution 2018 Hollywood Fringe Award)
Recipient of Special Award (Thespis Festival 2018, Kiel Germany)
Nominated for Asian Arts Award (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015)
Nominated for Best International (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018)
Nominated for Best Dance & Physical Theatre (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018)
SHINKA
Winner of Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play (New York Innovative Theatre Award 2019)
Winner of Outstanding Choreography & Movement (New York Innovative Theatre Award 2019)
Winner of Outstanding Production of a Dance & experimental production (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2018)
Winner of Outstanding Choreography (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2018)
Winner of Outstanding Ensemble (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 2018)
Nominated for Outstanding Actress featured role (The New York Innovative Theatre awards 2018-2019)
Nominated for Outstanding Direction (NY IT Award 2018-2019)
Hide Your Fires: Butoh Lady Macbeth
Winner of Best Physical Theatre (United Solo NYC 2017)
Winner of Best Sound Design (United Solo NYC 2017) with Jorge Olivo
Winner of Best International (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019)
Winner of ENCORE Producers Award (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019)
Nominated for Best O-face Award (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019)
ANTIGONE
Nominee for Best Supporting Actress (Antigone, Planet Connection 2016),
BALDY
Nominee for Best International Performance (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013)
En
A recipient of 2019 Brooklyn Arts Fund a new project, En.
Do what you believe,
Believe what you do;
And,
Surrender
To Unknown path;
No fear
Dark to the light,
We emerge from the darkness,
And,
We will be guided
To the light.
We surrender-
To the creation.
-Yokko
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LocationGrace & St. Paul's Church (View)
123 West 71st street
New York, NY 10023
United States
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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