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B a t t l e s # 1 : G r o u n d W o r k
Feat. Mari Osanai
Jessica Mae
Carole McCurdy
Efrén Arcoiris
Wannapa P. Eubanks
Amelia Charter
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6 humans gather in a ceremony of opening. These offerings are an allowance, a willingness to engage bodies in colloquies of conflict, of rivalry, of struggle.
We might locate ourselves as points along the battle path; where and how do we stand? How will we prepare to confront, not just our adversaries, but our family, or our neighbors?
Through this evening of performances, we ignite this fire-y topic with the precision of a scalpel, to dissect the hideous beast, to expose its entrails. We must take stock and ownership of our brutality, through any means necessary, for we will not avoid, we will not run. We face the mirror. We lay the ground work. We prepare to battle.
Battles#1: Ground Work is the first in a series of 4 performance events for BATTLES:SS3 Post-Butoh Festival. For more info about other performances and workshops by visiting international artists, visit www.butohchicago.com
Special thanks to our Fiscal Sponsor Antibody Corporation and Japanese Culture Center - 日本文化会館
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• Mari Osanai is our distinguished guest from Aomori city Japan, teaching Workshops April 5-9 at the Japanese Culture Center. Teacher, Dancer, Choreographer. Born in Aomori city Japan in 1956. She was trained in Ballet and Modern Dance at an early age and later studied Jazz dance Noguchi Taiso, Tai Chi and class by Mr. Hironobu Oikawa. Particularly Noguchi Taiso and its theory, philosophy had a great influence on her creation. Her unique and complex movements are created interweaving these techniques. She has performed and taught workshops in Japan, Canada, USA, Greece, Germany, in both solo and choreographed works.
• Jessica Mae Shen is a Chicago local artist studying dance and arts-in-healthcare in Columbia College Chicago. Have been trained in various dance styles, Jessica fell in love with Butoh like she did with no other. Butoh is not for being pretty nor ugly; it is for simply being. Through Butoh, Jessica explores the human experience with the potential of the human form. https://www.instagram.com/j3ssrou/
• Carole McCurdy is a Chicago-based artist and performer whose work addresses grief and anxiety, duty and resistance, and the absurd mysteries of embodiment. She's been privileged to study with many masters of butoh dance, including Natsu Nakajima and Yoshito Ohno, and also with great teachers of Argentine tango. She has performed at spaces including the Chicago Cultural Center, Epiphany Dance, Links Hall, Hamlin Park, High Concept Laboratories, Defibrillator Gallery, and Movement Research (NY). In 2014 she danced under viaducts in downtown Chicago and then toured Indonesia with Nicole LeGette's blushing poppy Dance Club. In 2008-09 she was awarded a six-month artistic residency at Links Hall, where she created and showed her ensemble piece "Alas." For Redmoon Theater's 2006 Twilight Orchard event in Columbus Park, Carole created "A Cure for Scurvy," a performance installation one reviewer described as "an example of the way dread can be created virtually out of thin air."
• Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks is a Butoh Artist, movement coach, and actor. Her venues include Goodman Theatre, Raven Theatre, Chicago Cultural Center, The Athenaeum Theatre, Victory Garden Theatre, MCA, Links Hall, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Access Living, and many more... She was chosen to be showcased for Dance/USA showcase 2011 at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Her experience is also including a Thai Dialect Coach (King & I at Stage 773 for Porchlight Music Theatre). Wannapa has recently been part of Laura Crotte’s theatre group to present the “Day of the Death” show for students in Chicago schools. She is an ensemble member of Body Strata collaborating with Renee Baker, Artistic Director/Music Director of Chicago Modern Orchestra Project. She is also a company member of Erasing the Distance, a non-profit arts organization based in Chicago that uses the power of performance to disarm stigma, spark dialogue, educate, and promote healing surrounding issues of mental health. Wannapa has recently conceived and produced Through My Daughter’s Eyes as part of the 2016 PopUp Series for Erasing the Distance by collaborating Theater, and Butoh in the work. She has taught Butoh workshops such as Butoh workshop for actors at Collaboraction Theatre Company, Halcyon Theatre, and individuals artists/actors as part of movement coaching. Wannapa has studied with many Butoh masters: Natsu Nakajima, The Tamanos, Yumiko Yoshioka, Katsura Kan, Akira Kasai, Tadashi Endo, and Sankai Juku. More of her works, please visit URL: http://wannapa12.wix.com/wannapap-eubanks or https://www.linkedin.com/in/wannapapeubanks
• Amelia Charter’s artwork explores movement, materials, and duration by hybridizing sculpture and live performance. Her interest is not solely with the body or with objects, but with the engaged and active space in between the two. Her live events of performance and fine art works are meditations on performance space, audienceship, wildness, and the utilitarian. Amelia has presented her work in Chicago at Sector 2337, Defibrillator Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Links Hall, in Los Angeles at The Electric Lodge and Paloma Street Studios, in Philadelphia at the Museum of Art and Mascher Space Cooperative, and internationally at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, India. She earned her BA in Performance and Directing, was co-founder of Denver Performance Research, and received an MFA and fellowship in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also works with K.J. Holmes and is a performer in her work, Hic Svnt Dracones. http://ameliacharter.com
Mari Osanai photo courtesy of Jenn Shaw
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