Sokkyo#9_Butoh
Improvisation
by Dance Company NUBA (direction: Juju Alishina)
Laboratory-Performance
Tuesday, March 18, 2014/
18:00-22:00
photo: Alain Dodeler
“Sokkyo”, in Japanese,
means “ improvisation”
Established in Paris since
1998, NUBA has been actively working on the transmission of Butoh
(Centre de danse du Marais, Micadanses,etc.) through classes, workshops
and performances.
In order to deepen and widen the expansion of Butoh to amateurs and
professionals, help them understand the process of choreography, and
offer professional and pre-professional dancers the opportunity to
practice Butoh in interaction with an audience, the company proposes:
"Lab-Performance"
Public improvisation sessions accompanied by a musician
The audience can either participate to the improvisations, or simply be a viewer.
Choreographer, Juju Alishina takes her inspiration from Tatsumi Hijikata, who has casually worked on improvisation, with writers such as Yukio Mishima, who suggested him themes on which he created. We propose Butoh improvisation sessions in a contemporary style.
In 2011, four SOKKYO sessions approached dancing in duo, Calligraphy as well as improvisational techniques, whereas three sessions held in 2012 saw the participation of Japanese Butô dancers Masaki Iwana et Toru Iwashita, as well as a session of 11 performances by young dancers.
On May
21, NUBA was proposing its eighth session with 10 performances by
young dancers.
This time, you will dance with the music by Theremin.
VIDEO : Youtube,, dailymotion
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 / 18:00-22:00
Doors open at 20:00 for the audience
Rates per session:
Active participantion (18:00-22:00):
Full price (non-members): 35 € - Members *: 30 €
Level: dance experience required (experience considered sufficient if
you are already a student of Juju Alishina’s classes)
Dress code: BLACK (Training wear - for exemple, T-shirt,
pants, socks. skirt, dress possible for the performance)
Viewers only (20:00-22:00)
Full price: 10 € - Members 5 €
* Yearly membership to Dance Company Nuba (non-profit-organization)
: 30 €
Place:
Micadanses -15 rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier 75004 Paris (M °
Saint-Paul)
Studio: May-B (basement, bottom)
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Bookings:
Please contact us by phone (01 40 27 08 83) or by E-mail
As space is limited, subscription is mandatory.
Running of Sessions
1) 18:00 - 20:00.: Warming up + rehearsal(participants only)
2) 20:00.: Welcoming of the audience (viewers only)
3) 20:10 to 21:00 some improvisations by the participants
4) Break - We prepare some snacks for the participants and the audience.
5) 21:10 - 21:40. Juju
Alishina solo + musicians
Presentation of one part of the new creation"Buremine" which
will be perforled in Japan (Fukuoka, Tokyo, Kyoto) on April 2014
6) Session will end at 21:45 latest.
The next sessions will be taking place on September 2014.
Different topics will be discussed at each session.
Norikata Ubukata - Thereministe
Mael Guezel (Percussionist)
Theremin
Juju Alishina - Butoh Dancer
Click the photo - ©Makoto Horiuchi
"When you compare an improvisation
which only takes a few seconds to set up with a work that takes three
months to choreograph, is it just the time spent in the preparation
that parts both?
Real improvisation rises on the spur of the moment : it is neither a
simple re-arrangement of some previously determined information, nor
the interpretation of an already made choreography.
Learning a choreography amounts to assimilating something coming from
the outside, and to procede henceafter to a series of adjustments: however,
our body is already full of various movements and forms, that improvisation
consists in taking advantage of. This is reminiscent of oriental medicine
which aims at stimulating our natural healing power. "Dance Training
the Alishina Method" - Juju Alishina
Production Company NUBA - Supported SPEDIDAM and Micadanses, benefits from a studio at the CND (Centre National de la Danse)
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