Greetings Butoh Friends & Happy Spring!

DAIPAN is germinating exciting adventures for our 6th Seattle Butoh Festival with the strong Latino presence of Diego Piñón, our esteemed teacher and guest artist for the 2015 Seattle Butoh Festival. The theme of this year's Seattle Butoh Festival is "Investigating the Global Body." We wish to look into the Asian-Latino-Caucasian connections that deepen cultural understanding. DAIPAN invites you to join us this year in celebration of the Latino spirit, strength and passion!
 
The 2015 Seattle Butoh Festival will provide inspiring performances, workshops and educational experiences from our gifted guest artist Diego Piñon. Like Mr. Piñon, DAIPAN envisions a world free of oppression based on poverty, racism, sexism, sexual orientation, and discrimination of any kind, and to live a healthy and a productive life in peace, love and harmony. We promote this through dance, performance and teaching the principles and practices of butoh. 

Join us as we cultivate this Investigation of the Global Body every Thursday night for the next two and a half months until the Festival at the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts for the DAIPAN Spring Butoh Dance Study taught by Sheri Brown, Helen Thorsen, and Joan Laage. Witness in our monthly First Thursday performances there as we investigate the global body via student group dance works, DAIPAN member dances. 

Together with you, will germinate a deep-rooted artistic interchange and investigation of the global body, illuminating Seattle's place as an international hub of butoh art. 
 

Upcoming DAIPAN Events

Create | City, A celebration of Seattle's cultural community
6:00 - 8:30 pm Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104
  Create | City is an event that's all about bringing Seattlites together around our creative communities, celebrating the artists, groups, and organizations funded through the Office of Arts & Culture and get to know the many partner organizations making Seattle a City of Creativity. Sheri Brown, Kaoru Okumura, and Helen Thorsen are going to perform in this event with musicians Rosalynn DeRoos (clarinet) & Taina Karr (oboe and English horn). Free, reservation required by Wednesday, April 22. 

DAIPAN Spring Butoh Dance Study at the TK
Classes: April 23, 30; May 14, 21, 28; June 11, 18, 25 (Thursdays) 7-9 pm
First Thursday Performances: May 7th, June 4th, July 7th 7 - 9 pm
Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts (115 Prefontaine Pl S. #305, Seattle 98104 -- Pioneer Square between Yesler and Washington, 3rd and 4th Ave S.)

Investigating the global body, medicine journey dances, Tru'tru' Body Ritual Movement, and Embodying the Spirit. Experience imagery and choreography and improvisation blend, training methods towards a supple body and mind. Investigate aesthetics common to butoh through creative explorations, choreographic instruction, and investigations led by Sheri Brown, Helen Thorsen, and Joan Laage. Workshops offer training in basic butoh technique, imagery and ma-body consciousness practice, democratic choreographic techniques as well as performance opportunities every first Thursday. Alternate modes of experiencing the world are cultivated as we create from the butoh space. This course is a process of erasing and re-creating the body through guided improvisation largely inspired by nature imagery, especially in the context of this year’s Seattle Butoh Festival 2015: Investigating the Global Body. Layered clothes recommended.

Drop-In Class rates $10 - 15/session. Contact Sheri Brown at sheribrown@gmail.com or 206-940-6078 for information/registration.

DAIPAN Spring Butoh Dance First Thursday Performance at the TK
May 7th 2015,  7 pm. in unit 305 (There will be signs.)

May's First Thursday performance will feature DAIPAN members Sheri Brown and Kaoru Okumura in addition to a talented, growing body of butoh students. Join us!

Suggested Donation $10 - 15
 

Seattle Butoh Festival 2015 - Exploring the Global Body

July 10th-19th, 2015
 
Workshop Dates
July 10, 2015: 6 - 9 pm; July 11, 2015: 12 - 6 pm; July 12, 2015: 10 am - 4 pm
Taoist Studies Institute, Seattle

Butoh Ritual Mexicano (BRM) challenges us to awaken and explore all the human qualities ranging from the subtle to the outrageous. BRM seeks the emergence of the deeper self. Through this process of transforming our daily life through the rebirth of our dance, we can offer more inspired energy to our community. BRM training involves high-impact aerobic movement, active meditation, and guided improvisation, all embraced within a space of communal ritual. The collective physical training consists of shaking, low-level ground work, partnering, impulse exchange, and transpersonal communication in order to expand our currents of energetic exchange. Guided improvisations then give participants the opportunity to integrate this new-found sensory awareness within their physical body, external environments, and the collective presence to reach new realms of creative potential.

Secure your spot in the workshop as soon as possible! Diego Piñon's workshops are not-to-be-missed and fill up quickly, so make sure you sign up for the workshop sooner rather than later. Early bird special for discounted rates end June 1!

Performance Dates
July 17 & 18th, 2015: BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL 8 pm
July 19th, 2015: KUBOTA GARDEN 12 – 3 pm

In the past DAIPAN members collectively supported each other's projects, but now, thanks to Mr. Pinon's energetic input, we will unify our efforts and talents to create our first full-length ensemble piece researching movement as a potential of the human body to be the deepest and most effective global communicator. Join us July 17 & 18 at the Broadway Performance Hall when DAIPANbutoh members in their highest new phase of growth together with Mr. Piñon in his unique mastery will present two transformative stage performances. Then join us outdoors Sunday July 19th for a liberating free outdoor performance at Kubota Garden organized by Joan Laage and choreographed by Diego Piñon.

Buy your ticket(s) early; you won't regret it.