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Yugen Presents: URBAN BUTOH strain Monday & Tuesday, April 8th & 9th, 2002 8:00 PM $10-15 Sliding Scale ----> Event Description <----------------------------------------------- THEATRE OF YUGEN PRESENTS: URBAN BUTOH strain San Francisco is a petri dish for evolving Butoh strains. Berkeley based Butoh masters Koichi and Hiroko Tamano have been the resident catalysts for Butoh in the Bay Area for over 23 years. The Tamano's have paved the road for American and in particular Bay Area Butoh artists. One example is San Francisco dancer Molly Barrons who has studied and performed with the Tamano's in their company Harupin-Ha since 1993. Barrons is the driving inspiration behind Urban Butoh Strain. Barrons was joined by dancers Antonio Delbenes and Mark Hellar for a Harupin - Ha performance in the San Francisco Butoh Festival 2000 at Theater Artaud. The three company members have studied and performed together since 2000 in the Bay Area and in New Mexico. In 2001 the Tamano's and Harupin-Ha were artists in residency for one week at Wayne State University in Detroit where they created "Motor City Butoh'. Urban Butoh Strain features 5 San Francisco Butoh Artists: Molly Barrons, Antonio Delbenes, Tappie Dufresne, Mark Hellar and Martha Matsuda (Oakland). Urban Butoh Strain will include 4 (15 minute) solo's including: "68" is performed by Molly Barrons with an original score by Detroit based electronic musician Munk. 68 examines the urban body, street gestures and the stamina necessary to endure the race riots in Detroit in 1968. Martha Matsuda performs "Stand". "Stand" focuses on the metaphor of standing as a way of being in the world: standing tall, taking up space and having the right to exist just because one exists. Mark Hellar will perform a solo that includes traces of his Martial Arts training in Tae Kwan Do. Antonio Delbenes performs a solo that employs the energy from the present moment and seeks to create unity through movement. The collective work reunites Molly Barrons with dancer Tappie Dufresne. Barrons choreographed a duet entitled "Outside" which they performed at the 1999 San Francisco Butoh Festival Marathon at ODC Theater. The collective work entitled Urban Butoh Strain (15min.) was inspired by Barrons, Delbenes and Hellar and reverberates with imprints of their Hijikata style of training with the Tamano's. Urban Butoh Strain examines how transforming cellular activity through imagery produces energy, movement and form. Although there are many layers of images the urban body and experience is a texture undeniable to the group as this is our landscape. ----> Venue Info <------------------------------------------------------ Theatre of Yugen/Noh Space 2840 Mariposa St (at Alabama St.) San Francisco 415.621.0507 www.theatreofyugen.org Theatre of Yugen/Noh Space is located in project Artaud. Mariposa St. is parallel and between 17th & 18th streets. The nearest cross streets are Alabama and Florida. ----> Additional Info <------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415.621.7978 www.theaqtreofyugen.org ----> The Squid List Admin <-------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://www.laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your preferences: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://www.laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html ----> The Odeon Bar <--------------------------------------------------- Our little clubhouse in The Mission The Odeon Bar 3223 Mission Street @ Valencia, San Francisco http://www.odeonbar.com ----> Laughing Squid <-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://www.laughingsquid.org Underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond! ----> Web Hosting <----------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://www.laughingsquid.net Laughing Squid is an independently owned and operated web hosting service that specializes in web hosting for artists, individuals, non-profits and small organizations. We are here for those website owners and developers who often get lost in the faceless void of corporate web hosting. Copyright (c) 2002 Laughing Squid LLC. All rights reserved.
