FUJIWARA DANCE INVENTIONS (TORONTO)

And as she seeks to grasp it by the hand, 
the shape begins to fade away...

PERFORMANCE:  November 2 & 3 (TH/FR)  8 PM  
*Thursday opens with Elizabeth Falconer (Seattle)

Denise Fujiwara performs Sumida River, choreographed by Natsu Nakajima,
 an early disciple of both Kazuo Ohno nd Tatsumi Hijikata.  A spell-binding
 interpretation of a renowned 15th century Japanese Noh play, Sumida River
 is the haunting tale of a woman in search of her stolen child.  Fujiwara's 
delicately shaded performance of this Butoh work explores a mother's journey 
in a work that captures the pure dance and spiritual essence of Mai, the sacre
d, internal dance of Noh.  A critic for Montreal's Le Devoir calls it "a butoh
 dance of remarkable purity."  Denise, one of the most diverse talents to 
evolve on the Canadian dance scene (choreographer, dancer, actor), received
 a B.F.A. in Dance at York University and became a founder of Toronto 
Independent Dance Enterprise.  Fujiwara Dance Inventions was founded in
 1991.  Walls, a CBC television documentary about the life and work of Ms.
 Fujiwara, won the 1995 Gemini Award for Best Performing Arts Program.

ELIZABETH FALCONER 
Seattle koto master and storyteller Elizabeth Falconer performs Portrait of
 Shunkin, based on a 1933 disturbing and thought-provoking story of love
 and loyalty by Junichiro Tanizaki.  She will accompany herself on the 
13-string Japanese koto.

WORKSHOP:  November 5 & 6 (SA/SU)  10:30-1 PM
Fujiwara brings her insights as a contemporary dancer who has found bridges
 into the arcane art of Butoh; training the body and freeing the mind to work
 from vivid internal imagery and expressing it through intense physicality.
  Her most influential mentors include Natsu Nakajima, Bryon Brown of San
 Francisco's Mangrove in the 1980s, and American theatre director Anne 
Bogart.


GOO SAY TEN (SAPPORO)
*Opening with Aono Jikken Ensemble (Seattle) 

PERFORMANCE: November 2 (TH)  10 PM

Itto Morita and Mika Takeuchi of Goo Say Ten perform Toki Hime (Princess
 Toki).  Toki is a Japanese bird on the verge of extinction.  They describe 
their work as "duo Butoh evocators drifting across subconscious terrain, 
dreaming a Toki's scarlet dream as a princess of the good old Japan; 
a tenacious dream of the lost kingdom's legendary metamorphosis and
 madness."

AONO JIKKEN ENSEMBLE 
Aono Jikken Ensemble is the multi-disciplinary ensemble of William Satake
 Blauvelt, Susie Kozawa, Yoko Murao, Mike Shannon, and Esther Sugai.
  Using a structured improvisational approach, their work includes new scores
 for classic Japanese silent films; original dance pieces; site-specific live 
soundscapes; and multi-media performance works.  The group has appeared
 at the du Maurier International Jazz Festival (Vancouver B.C.); Northwest
 New Works; Northwest Asian American Theatre's A-Fest; and on KCMU's 
Sonarchy Radio.


DAPPIN' BUTOH (SEATTLE)

PERFORMANCE: November 3 (FR)  10 PM

Under the artistic direction of Joan Laage, Dappin' Butoh performs Milking
 The Way to a sound score by Ela Lamblin.  Magical and darkly humorous, 
the work plays with our hopes, expectations, and fears as we encounter 
distinct landscapes and lifeforms.  Joan studied under Kazuo Ohno and 
performed in Gnome (with SU-EN) under Yoko Ashikawa's direction in Japan.
  Founded in 1991, Dappin' and Joan have appeared in Seattle Fringe 
Festivals since 1992, Earshot Jazz, New City/New Dance, Allegro! Dance 
Series, San Francisco Butoh Festival, Asian Contemporary Dance Festival 
(NYC), and Butoh Breeze (Stockholm).

WORKSHOP/PERFORMANCE PROJECT with Dappin' Butoh and Mount Analog
Workshop: November 6-10 (MO-FR)  2-5 PM
Performance: November 12 (SU)  7 PM
Dappin' Butoh's artistic director Joan Laage will teach a workshop concluding
 in a performance of Heaven's Hate with music live by Mount Analog.  Joan's
 teaching has its roots in Ashikawa's methods and in developmental patterning
 of the body, and emphasizes the elemental "nature" body that is in continual
 transformation.  Heaven's Hate is inspired by the hungry ghosts of Buddhist 
mythology, Japanese Ukiyo-e paintings, and the terror inflicted upon humanity
 in the name of religion.  Tucker Martine of Mount Analog has worked with 
Dappin' on several productions, and with musicians Wayne Horvitz, Bill 
Frisell, and Eyvind Kang.


KOHZENSHA BUTOH COMPANY (TOKYO)

PERFORMANCE: November 5 (SA)  8 PM; November 6 (SU)  7 PM
*Sunday opens with Seattle Kokon Taiko (Seattle)

...Our body is something like a crossing where life and death meet.
Can we reach the energy which put life into our bodies?...

Directed by Yukio Waguri, Kohzensha will perform Bone of Earth 2, a work 
steeped in the essence of Butoh and Nihon Buyoh (traditional Japanese dance)
.  A duet with Waguri and Asuka Shimada, the work's theme is to find out 
"what is specially Japanese and what is internationally common in Butoh." 
 A critic in Lithuania remarked that the audience recognized the history of 
humankind and the elements of the Earth in Waguri's performance.  Waguri
 became a disciple of Tatsumi Hijikata, Butoh's founder, in 1972.  From 
1987-89 he performed with Natsu Nakajima, an early disciple of both Hijikata 
and Kazuo Ohno, and in 1990, he organized Kohzensha.  Waguri has performe
d and taught in Korea, Indonesia, Lithuania, and Australia, and in his native
 Japan.

SEATTLE KOKON TAIKO 
Founded in 1980, Seattle Kokon Taiko is a performing arts organization
 based in the Japanese American community devoted to the performance, 
promotion and study of taiko (Japanese drums).  Taiko is a dynamic synthesis
 of rhythm, movement and spirit originating in Japan and evolving as a folk art
 over the last several hundred years.  Seattle Kokon Taiko strives to combine
 the ancient with the modern with their repertoire of traditional and
 contemporary compositions and collaborative works with other artists.

WORKSHOP: "body as an empty vessel..."
November 4 (FR)  3-6:30 PM; November 7 (MO)  6:30-10 PM
In Waguri's workshop, with his Butoh Kaden CD-ROM, participants will have
 an opportunity to put the theory of "Butoh-fu" (Hijikata's choreographic
 methods) into practice.  Working with Butoh-fu texts, Yukio will give 
concrete explanations to read the poetic and abstract words as practical
 incidents happening in the body.  Words are effective tools to pull out the 
senses or memories carved in the body.

LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION with CD-ROM and Panelists
November 5 (SU)  2 PM 		Seattle Art Museum
Yukio Waguri will give a Lecture-Demonstration on Butoh's history and 
choreography.  A disciple of Butoh's founder, Tatsumi Hijikata, beginning 
in 1972, Waguri has selected 88 pieces of BUTOH-FU among his notes taken
 while Hijikata choreographed.   With his CD-ROM Waguri can share his 
teacher's unique method created to "awaken and embody physical images 
through words."   Waguri has divided these words, "Butoh -fu" ("fu" means
 score in Japanese) into "7 worlds" according to certain characteristics and
 arranged them as a CD-ROM which is in English and Japanese and available
 internationally.  

GROTTO (SEATTLE)

PERFORMANCES: November 4 (SA)  10 PM, November 5 (SU)  9 PM

In Haku Haiku, the stories of Asian workers migrating to Hawaii are woven
 together like Haku lei with the thread of the interminable human spirit.
  Directed by Willy Manalang, Grotto will perform a work combining film, live
 and recorded music, sounds effects, and a marriage of Butoh, modern, and
 hula dance.  A native of the Philippines, Willy graduated from Brigham 
Young University in Hawaii.  In Hawaii, he danced with The Children of the
 Light Butoh Dancers, and he has been a featured performer in Dappin'
 Butoh and Degenerate Art Ensemble.   


INK BOAT (SAN FRANCISCO)
P.A.N. (SEATTLE)

PERFORMANCES: November 8 & 9 (WE/TH)   8 PM

Surreal and darkly comic, Ink Boat is a Performing Arts collective founded
 and directed by Shinichi Momo Koga.  Ink Boat performs Cockroach, a 
testament to the tenacity of the unloved and marginal. Like the Cockroaches,
 many human groups have become despised and ignored by those in positions
 of power and wealth. The human will to survive can manifest beauty, terror, 
and mystery.  Among the performers in Cockroach are musicians from Tin 
Hat Trio, Charming Hostess, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and Seattle's own
 Degenerate Art Ensemble.  Momo is a member of TEN PEN Chii in Germany,
 co-choreographs for Seattle's Degenerate Art Ensemble, and has danced in
 Harupin-Ha based in Berkeley. 

WORKSHOPS: November 11 (SA)  2-5 PM & November 12 (SU)  10-1 PM
Shinichi Momo Koga's workshop, Pathways to Stillness, begins in the micro-
cosmos of the body and slowly moves outward.  Participants are challenged 
to attain a balance of energy and serenity...to be a raging storm in blue skies 
and a breath of calm in the midst of turbulence. Momo has taught movement
 and body theatre throughout the US and Europe since 1991.  Deeply 
influenced by Tadashi Suzuki's Theatre as well as his work with Butoh artists
 Yumiko Yoshioka and Hiroko Tamano, Momo teaches a Japanese flavored art 
with dashes and pinches stolen from wherever he has traveled.

P.A.N.
P.A.N.'s work vermillion.violet with 5 dancers and a video artist, explores
 the process of "bruising."  Through movement and imagery, the complexities
 of transformation will be structured to illustrate that metamorphosis is at 
times frightening and unbearable, leading to liberation once it is complete.
  d.K. Pan is the founder and facilitator of P.A.N. (performance art network),
 a multi-disciplinary presenting organization and multi-media performance 
ensemble.  As a network of individual artists of varied disciplines, our aim is
 to broaden the scope of our work through collaborations and share funding 
and producing resources.  d.K. Pan also works with super 8 film and Polaroid
photography, and has written for webzine Pomegranates.com.


SU-EN BUTOH COMPANY (STOCKHOLM)

PERFORMANCES November 10 & 11 (FR/SA)  8 PM

In SU-EN's solo Atomic, the choreography, soundtrack, spatial and light 
designs, and costumes all interpret the theme of the atom and beyond; the 
smallest particles to be known and the force that is dwelling in this 
nothingness.  Susanna Akerlund (SU-EN) resided in Japan for 8 years where
 she was a member of Gnome from 1988-1993, with instruction and 
choreography by renowned Butoh dancer Yoko Ashikawa, and also worked
 with Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo.  Based in Sweden, SU-EN tours 
performances, lectures, and workshops internationally.

WORKSHOP: 	November 7 (TU)  6:30-10 PM & November 9, 10, 11 
(TH/FR/SA)  10-1 PM (3-Day, no singles)

SU-EN's workshops are based on the methods of Hijikata, Ashikawa and 
Shizune.  Using words of imagery and reality, the participants are taken 
through " conditions" of physical life.  The workshop focuses on increasing 
bodily sensitivity and "natural" strength to achieve an ease with 
improvisation and an awareness that goes beyond the individual body.

KAGAMI BUTOH (OLYMPIA WA)
DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE (SEATTLE)
	with guest Shinichi Momo Koga (Ink Boat-San Francisco)

PERFORMANCE: November 10 & 11 (FR/SA)  10 PM

KAGAMI Butoh's  work is influenced by Kazuo Ohno, Doranne Crable's first
 Butoh teacher; by classical Japanese dance artist Isaburo Hanayagi, and the
 legendary Flamenco maestro El Farruco, with whom she studied in Spain.  
A in progress, 
Z ONE  Z EROS explores the tensions that break the silence and stillness 
that we can't tolerate, and is inspired by Samuel Beckett's plays (Act Without
 Words and Waiting For Godot), Michelangelo's David, street performers in 
Florence, and Bun-Ching Lam's evocative composition, "Water" (1999). 
 Doranne who founded KAGAMI in 1993 after dancing with Dappin' for three 
years, was a featured artist at the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and is 
involved with World Artists For Tibet.

WORKSHOP:  November 5 (SA)  2-5 PM
Using Laban movement technique, Japanese classical dance, and her
 background in Flamenco, Doranne blends precise technical training and 
improvisation in workshops designed for people with or without previous 
experience. 

DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE
Degenerate Art Ensemble (formerly The Young Composers Collective) revisits
 their 1997 work Rinko with a new interpretation.  Rinko is a dynamic
 exploration of a terrifying future-through dangerous sounds and hallucinatory
 imagery-an eerie tale set in a polluted landscape of mutation clashing with
 Rinko (performed by Haruko Nishimura), the spirit of extinct children. 
 Composed by Ensemble conductor Joshua Kohl, the music explores sounds 
"between the notes"-set against thundering drums.  Degenerate Art Ensemble
 is a big-band-garage-orchestra / movement-theater company / multi 
discipline art army.  A Stranger reviewer wrote, 
"... their art is a violently beautiful, passionate world where things don't have 
a 'nice day', but are either dying or coming to life, screaming or absolutely
 silent." 


BUTOH OPEN: November 12 (SU)  3 PM  
Featuring: Molly Barrons (San Francisco), Antonio Delbenes (Tuscon), 
Hunter Eastburn (Oakland), Leigh Evans (Oakland), Mary Cutrera & Helen
 Thorsen (Seattle), and Alan Sutherland (Seattle).  

INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE 
November 4 (SA)  7 PM   ishan Vernallis (Seattle) 
November 12 (SU)  6:30 PM   Bob DeNatale (San Francisco) 

PHOTO & PAINTING EXHIBITS & VIDEO SHOWINGS


WORKSHOP REGISTRATION / PERFORMANCE RESERVATION / INFORMATION

DAPPIN' BUTOH
206-526-5756
joandav@postalzone.com
www.seattlebutoh.org
2353 N 64th Street
Seattle WA 98103



Seattle International Butoh Festival is produced by Dappin' Butoh and
 P.A.N. and hosted by On The Boards, 100 W Roy in Lower Queen Anne.
  Please contact us if you would like to volunteer for the festival or give a
 donation.  Donations are tax-deductible through our sponsorship with Allied
 Arts Foundation.


FESTIVAL SCHEDULE (3-Performance Pass $30)
WEEK ONE
NOVEMBER 2 (TH) 
 	 8 PM  Mainstage  $12 
Fujiwara Dance Inventions (Toronto) & Opening with Elizabeth Falconer 
(Seattle)
  	10 PM  Studio  $10  
Goo Say Ten (Sapporo) & Opening with Aono Jikken Ensemble (Seattle)
NOVEMBER 3 (FR)
  	8 PM  Mainstage  $12  
Fujiwara Dance Inventions (Toronto)
  	10 PM  Mainstage  $10  
Dappin' Butoh (Seattle)
NOVEMBER 4 (SA)
	7 PM  FREE  INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE by ishan Vernallis
 (Seattle)
  	8 PM  Mainstage  $15  
Kohzensha Butoh Company (Tokyo) 
  	10 PM  Mainstage  $10  
Grotto (Seattle)
NOVEMBER 5 (SU)
  	2 PM  Seattle Art Museum  $8  
Yukio Waguri Lecture-Demonstration & Panelists
  	7 PM  Mainstage  $15  
Kohzensha Butoh Company (Tokyo) & Opening with Seattle Kokon Taiko
 	9 PM  Mainstage  $10  
Grotto (Seattle)
WEEK TWO
NOVEMBER 8 & 9 (WE/TH)  
 	8 PM  Mainstage  $15  
 	Ink Boat (San Francisco) & P.A.N. (Seattle)
NOVEMBER 10 & 11 (FR/SA)
 	 8 PM  Studio  $12 
SU-EN Butoh Company (Stockholm)
  	10 PM  Studio  $10  
KAGAMI Butoh (Olympia) & 
Degenerate Art Ensemble (Seattle) with guest Shinichi Momo Koga of Ink Boat 
NOVEMBER 12 ( SU)
 	 3 PM  Studio  $8  
BUTOH OPEN with 6 different performances
 6:30 PM  Free  INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE by Bob DeNatale
 (San Francisco)
 7 PM  Studio  $8  
Workshop/Performance Project with Dappin' Butoh, Mount Analog &
 workshop participants

WORKSHOPS (Full Pass $300, includes performances; Single Class $30)
YUKIO WAGURI (KOHZENSHA BUTOH COMPANY-TOKYO)
  	November 3 (FR)  3-6:30 PM & November 6 (MO) 6:30-10 PM
DENISE FUJIWARA (FUJIWARA DANCE INVENTIONS-TORONTO)
  	November 4 & 5 (SA/SU)  10:30-1 PM
DORANNE CRABLE (KAGAMI BUTOH-OLYMPIA)
 	November  4 (SA)  2-5 PM
SUSANNA AKERLUND (SU-EN BUTOH COMPANY-STOCKHOLM)
  	November 7 (TU)  6:30-10 PM & November 9-11 (TH-SA)
  10-1 PM (no singles, 3-day only $75)
SHINICHI MOMO KOGA (INK BOAT- SF)
  	November 11 (SA)  2-5 PM & November 12 (SU)  10-1 PM
JOAN LAAGE (DAPPIN' BUTOH-SEATTLE)
  	November 6-10 (MO-FR)  2-5 PM (no singles, with full pass $50, 
project only $75; Butoh experience or full workshops)