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BARE BONES BUTOH PRESENTS: SHOWCASE #23!

(Adventurous Shows for an Adventurous Audience)


WHEN:

Friday Nov 18, 2011, and Saturday, Nov 19, 2011
Both performances are at 8:00 pm



WHERE:
Studio 210
3435 Cesar Chavez St (at Valencia)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Studio 210 is located in the former Sears Building, inset from the corner of Cesar Chavez and Valencia Street. Accessible by: BART - 24th St Station; and MUNI - #12, #27, #14, #49. Plenty of on-street parking.


TICKETS:
Performances: $5-$20 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Additional donations are graciously accepted and gratefully appreciated.


WHO:
This time around, the performers are:

Ronnie Baker, Christina Braun (Saturday only), Darya Chernova (Saturday only), Ron Chornow, Michael Curran, Mark Deutsch (Saturday only), Coicoi Duncan, Liz Filippone (Saturday only), David Flaig (Friday only), Wolfgang Heinle, Luku (Friday only), Martha Matsuda (Saturday only), Ri Molnar (Friday only), Jeffrey Mooney (Saturday only), Angela Newsham, and Bob Webb.

Quite a line-up, wouldn't you say? Should be a couple of VERY GOOD SHOWS!

Surprise guest artists may also be performing as well. There are often last minute additions (local, national, and international artists) to the programing, it's that kind of show.


WHAT:
Bare Bones Butoh Presents is a performance Showcase for local, national, and International artists working in the areas of butoh, performance art, and/or ritual performance. It exists for artists to try out new material, show works in process, hone improvisational chops, and redo or revisit previous material. Bare Bones Butoh Showcases employ the grassroots ethic of working together to sustain an artistic culture. We are community building and performance all smushed together into two evenings.


Thank you for your time, and we hope to see you there.


Further info:
Bob Webb
bobwebb20@hotmail.com
510-284-7025

Back from vacation

I love vacation! You feel so refreshed and rebooted when you come back. In fact, I realized most people don't take ENOUGH of them!

I went to three different locations: LA (UCLA Butoh Symposium); Newport Beach Coast, CA; and Las Vegas, NV. I probably would've preferred Vegas before Newport Beach, but you can only plan things so much.

The Butoh Symposium was such a haven of artists, history, discussion, and practitioners of this mysterious movement practice that I love and loathe. It actually made me question my relationship with Butoh more. What is it about this practice that keeps me coming back? (I'll write more about this on my other blog. )

Newport Beach Coast was the epitome of relaxation and fun. I stayed with my Dad at his timeshare, along with my stepmom and their two friends. It was all about R&R: sitting by the pool reading, swimming or soaking up the sun; walking along the beach or hiking along the coast; watching the different birds fly around outside on the patio while overlooking the pacific ocean; shopping; watching the Boston Bruins on satellite cable TV; and then just chatting with family and friends about whatever while sipping on a beer or glass of wine. It was wonderful and so needed!

Las Vegas was crazy. It was my second time and it felt the same exact way as the first. Overstimulation and lots of people! It's still fun because everyone around seems like they're having fun too (unless you gambled all your money away). Thank God we were there for the Punk Rock Bowling Festival. A great music festival with all sorts of punk genres--pop or hard. The majority of the shows were outdoors, but I'm glad the night I went it was a cooler, overcast day. The remainder of the time I was there, the temp was in the 90s and sunny! However, I could never live there. I realized my body doesn't do well in that climate. My skin is still trying to heal from the dryness from the air there.

Vacation is important. It's necessary for the mind, body and soul. We all need a break from work-life, whatever and however that may look. We deserve it and need it.

When was the last time you went on a vacation?

A slow descent and rise

I'm getting more and more clear about what's alive for me. It's funny because I could feel it calling me over the past year. Massage is one of those things, which I'm doing already as I complete my clinic hours.

But the big thing for me is my movement practice: butoh and performance. It's been calling me for awhile now and I feel I need to answer it. I already began cutting back on my yoga teaching without really knowing why. I mean, I knew why. I just had too much judgment of myself about it. The "clear" is coming through with acceptance. Acceptance of what is. Right now I like teaching two classes a week. It's just interesting that I have realized now, that I've been making this slow descent away from it.

So, now it's about rising up to meet my movement practice. To spend more time with it. To embrace it and let it embrace me. To hold what fires me up and makes me feel alive. To be present with all I am while moving. To breathe. To love.

After taking the Katsura Kan workshop, that love came back to me. That drive to create, experiment, share, and teach. I will always incorporate my love of yoga with my movement practice because I really can't not. So let that love rise and feed me with all its glory and beauty, because it's gonna be fun rise to up and meet it.

The Katsura Kan butoh workshop

I had an amazing experience at the Katsura Kan workshop this past weekend. Click here to read about it at my movement blog.

Performance this Weekend!

I'm performing this weekend at this wonderful performance series, Bare Bones Butoh. I'll be dancing with many bodies in a piece I've been working on with my wonderful dance partner, Deborah Butler.

Also, there is a SPECIAL treat: Butoh Master, Katsura Kan of Japan will be performing too (pictured above)!

The details are below. Hope you can make one of the evenings!

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BARE BONES BUTOH PRESENTS: SHOWCASE 20

With our special guests KATSURA KAN, noted Butoh Master from Japan and the World,

and Sharoni Siegel from Boulder, Colo.

WHEN:

Friday Jan 28, 2011, and Saturday, Jan 29, 2011

Both performances are at 8:00 pm

WHERE:
Studio 210
3435 Cesar Chavez St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Studio 210 is located in the former Sears Building, inset from the corner of Cesar Chavez and Valencia Street. Accessible by: BART - 24th St Station: and MUNI - #12, #27, #14, #49.

TICKETS:
Performances: $5-$20 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Additional donations are graciously accepted and gratefully appreciated.

WHO:
This time around, the performers are:

Ronnie Baker, Molly Barrons (Saturday only), Christina Braun (Saturday only), Deborah Butler, Dominique (Friday only), Kristen Greco (Saturday only), Wolfgang Heinle, KATSURA KAN (solo on Friday, duet on Saturday), Anastazia Louise (Saturday only), Luku (Friday only), Ri Molnar (Friday only), Megan Nicely (Saturday only), Liz Saari-Filippone, Sharoni Siegel, and Bob Webb

Surprise guest artists may well also be performing. There are often last minute additions (local, national, and international artists) to the programing, it's that kind of show.

WHAT:

Bare Bones Butoh Presents is a performance Showcase for local, national, and International artists working in the areas of butoh, performance art, and/or ritual performance. It exists for artists to try out new material, show works in process, hone improvisational chops, and redo or revisit previous material. Bare Bones Butoh Showcases employ the grassroots ethic of working together to sustain an artistic culture. We are community building and performance all smushed together into two evenings.


Thank you for your time, and we hope to see you there.

Further info, feel free to contact:

Bob Webb bobwebb20@hotmail.com 510-284-7025

Most recent performance work: Watch my video!

This is a clip of a work-in-progress I'm developing with my moving partner, Kitsune. It's based on the Loudun Possessions. We will be showing more at an upcoming show on January 28 and 29. Check it out!

The Loudun Sketches (WIP) from Liz Filippone on Vimeo.

Bare Bones Butoh Presents: Showcase 19

BARE BONES BUTOH PRESENTS: SHOWCASE 19
A Benefit for Bare Bones Butoh itself.

And A WORKSHOP WITH VISITING GUEST ARTIST LORI OHTANI of TANGENTZ BUTOH from HAWAII


WHEN:
Performances: Friday Nov 5, 2010, and Saturday, Nov 6, 2010
Both performances are at 8:00 pm

Workshop: Sunday, Nov 7, 2010
From 10:00 am to 1:00 pm


WHERE:
Both performances and the workshop will be held at
Studio 210
3435 Cesar Chavez St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Studio 210 is located in the former Sears Building, inset from the corner of Cesar Chavez and Valencia Street. Accessible by: BART - 24th St Station: and MUNI - #12, #27, #14, #49.


TICKETS:
Performances: $5-$20 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Additional donations are graciously accepted and gratefully appreciated.

Workshop: $40
All proceeds from this workshop go to the teacher, Lori Ohtani, in order to help defray her travel costs. Please see below for more info on the workshop.


WHO:
This time around, the performers are:
Ronnie Baker, Zoe Bender (Friday only), Christina Braun (Saturday only), Deborah Butler (Friday only), Darya Chernova (Friday only), Kristen Greco (Saturday only) Chrysalis Hyron (Saturday only), Erika Mark (Friday only), Lori Ohtani, Liz Saari-Filippone (Friday only), and Bob Webb

Surprise guest artists may well also be performing. There are often last minute additions (local, national, and international artists) to the programing, it's that kind of show.

The workshop will be taught by Lori Ohtani, our guest from Hawaii

WHAT:
Bare Bones Butoh Presents is a performance showcase for local, national, and International artists working in the areas of butoh, performance art, and/or ritual performance. It exists for artists to try out new material, show works in process, hone improvisational chops, and redo or revisit previous material. Bare Bones Butoh Showcases employ the grassroots ethic of working together to sustain an artistic culture.

The minimal fee the audience pays at the door allows the Showcases to function as a fundraising platform which supports local Butoh and Performance Artists. Every Bare Bones Butoh Presents show has been a Benefit Performance for an individual or group within the Butoh/Performing Arts community in need. Bare Bones Butoh Showcase 19 is no exception. All proceeds from these performances go towards the organization itself. Sometimes you've got to feed the kitty to keep the purr going. Please feel free to donate as much as you wish.

A Bare Bones Butoh Showcase is community building and performance all smushed together into two evenings.
Thank you for your time, and we hope to see you there.

WORKSHOP:
"Abstracting the Essence" Explore unique body vocabulary through Butoh. Butoh training utilizes imagery and words to help excavate memories and physicalize the inner landscapes within your body"s potential. From this starting point the body is free to interpret a new form of life.
Our class will begin with a moderate physical warm-up leading to what I call neutral walk exercises to develop a strong focus. We will then modify these basic walking exercises to assist us in fine tuning our sensory and spatial awareness, i.e. the feet (sole of the foot) as a vital housing of many nerve cell points, and changing our various perspectives of seeing oneself in the space we are moving. Through our modified walking we will deconstruct and slowly build (little by little) how your body seeks its own unique way of moving, and how it naturally accommodates itself when different forms of limitations, words, and imagery are placed on its existing structure.

Lori Ohtani is a Sansei born and raised on the island of Oahu. She was originally trained as a visual artist, receiving her BFA in painting and sculpture from the Univ of Hawaii at Manoa in 1981. As an abstract artist with a background in Jazz and Modern dance she was drawn to the strongly visual imagery of Butoh dance. An original and former member (1989-1993) of then named Iona Pear Dance Theater - Lori has been practicing the art of Butoh for 21 years, and is presently Artistic Director of Tangentz Performance Group, which she founded in 1994. She has studied with Butoh Masters Katsura Kan, Hiroko and Koichi Tamano, Mitsutaka Ishii, Yukio Waguri, Akira Kasai, Yumiko Yoshoioka, Masahide Omori, BW training with Naoko Maeshiba, and in Japan with Butoh cofounder, Kazuo Ohno and his son Yoshito. As a solo artist, and with Tangentz, she has taught workshops, and performed throughout Hawaii, the mainland US, Canada, and Japan. Keeping in touch with her visual arts roots she has shown her performance art pieces and visual artwork in group exhibits throughout Hawaii since 1995, and became a member of a visual artists group named COJWIA (Coalition of Japanese Women in Art) in 2003. Butoh dance remains her main passion and a major source of inspiratioan in her life and art.


Further info:
Bob Webb
bobwebb20@hotmail.com
510-284-7025

"Ovular" performance piece

Finally got my performance piece, Ovular, up on video. This is a duet with Deborah Butler/Kitsunebutoh. Hope you enjoy! You can play it on my blog or click the word, Ovular, below the video.

Ovular from Liz Filippone on Vimeo.

Press from the "Public Butoh Happening"

My friend/collaborator, Deborah, googled our event "Public Butoh Happening in Civic Center" that we did over a week ago and she found a blog about us!  It so nice to know that we all do make a difference in people's lives.

Enjoy!

http://sfciviccenter.blogspot.com/2010/08/buddhas-butoh-dance.html

Public Butoh Happening!

I'm am so excited to be dancing with two women, whom I started butoh with back in 2002!  This Thursday, August 19 @ 7:00 p.m-ish Civic Center, San Francisco, the happening will be under the enormous Three Heads Six Arms Sculpture.

Come to witness and experience this beautifully, haunting form of movement.

Butoh: A Dance for Me

I learned and studied ballet from 5 yrs-12 yrs old. Then modern dance all through high school.  I loved modern because it broke ballet's rules.  Then towards the end of the college, I drew my attention to more contemporary forms of dance/movement such as butoh.  This is when I discovered this other element to dance.  For years, I felt I was always dancing for others and never for myself.  Butoh taught me that the dance can be for yourself.  A deeper part of you showing itself, while the audience takes it in their way.  It still can be for others, but it really does start within.  This should be for any dance technique out there.  I guess, for me, when I danced in high school, for example, it was always a competition, because it literally was! I was on a dance team and we competed throughout the state and country.  We even went to international festivals.  Also, your teachers also make a difference too. I loved my teacher in high school, but it was the butoh teachers who really showed me these other elements.  We would take an object, image, or feeling and make that the dance. Sometimes it became personal (whether you intended it to be or not) and a lot of healing would come out it. 

I'm not going to write an essay about butoh.  I find it very difficult to "write" about it.  You have to see it or experience it for yourself.  It's a different experience for everyone.  The late, founder of butoh, Kazuo Ohno stated butoh as, "not thinking. only soul."  He said it all there.

I've worked with many dancers who use somatic studies with butoh.  It really is a way to embody your emotions, traumas, life experiences, etc. For example, it's amazing to work with dreams.  In my recent performance, I used an image from a dream I had three weeks ago.  Since my piece was about women's moon cycles, the dream image I incorporated was my IUD falling out of me.  I know this can be grotesque and uncomfortable for some to imagine, but the dream was so vivid for me at the time, I had to use it in my piece.  For awhile, I haven't really accepted/welcomed the IUD into my body. Back in January, an ultrasound showed the lining in my uterus had a very large thickening,, which caused excessive bleeding, causing anemia.  My doctor wanted to remove the thickening (surgically) and thin it out with an IUD or the pill. I struggled with choosing the IUD or to go back on the birth control pill.  I was ALL SET with the pill, so that left me with the IUD.  I would've done a more holistic approach, but this was something that needed to be done urgently, so a more western approach was needed.

In my dream, I got my period and it was very heavy.  When I went to the bathroom, my IUD was hanging out of my vagina and I was afraid to move away from the toilet.  Then I stood up to call a friend. When I woke up, I had to actually go to the bathroom and check!  This would NEVER happen, and if it did, it would be the rarest thing ever. So I used this image and feeling in my piece. During the performance, I would think of the image and allowed my body to feel it.  I plan on using this image again, but for a longer time to see what manifests.  My piece was finalized, but more of a finalized work-in-progress.  For me, I may practice this image by itself.

It would be fun and interesting to teach a butoh class associated with dreams.  What an amazing way to work with your subconscious/unconscious.  A way to dance these images, feelings, and/or visions for yourself.  So many symbols and messages happen in our dreams for a reason.  It's our deep subconscious talking to us.  I guess it depends if we want to listen or not. 

Bare Bones Butoh Presents 18

I will be performing Friday and Saturday, August 13 and 14 at 8:00p.m.  Come see some of my new work!

Bare Bones Butoh Presents 12 November 2008

Bare Bones Butoh Presents is a performance showcase for local and International artists working in the areas of Butoh, Performance Art, and/or Ritual Performance. It exists for artists to try out new material, show works in process, hone improvisation chops and redo or revisit previous material. Bare Bones Butoh Presents employs the grassroots ethic of working together to sustain an artistic culture.

The minimal fee the audience pays at the door allows Bare Bones Butoh Presents to function as a fundraising platform which supports local Butoh and Performance Artists. Every Bare Bones Butoh Presents show has been a Benefit Performance for an individual or group within the Butoh/Performing Arts community in need. Bare Bones Butoh Presents 18 is no exception.

Bare Bones Butoh Presents is community building and performance all smushed together into two evenings.

Tickets:
$5-20 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)





Location:
Studio 210
3435 Cesar Chavez Street @ Valencia
SF, CA


Transportation:
Street parking, MUNI lines 14 and 27, and 24th Street stop on BART walk 4 blocks

For more information, contact Bob Webb bobwebb20@hotmail.com

Becoming clear and the Diego Pinon experience

It's Tuesday and I'm still processing my weekend. I really don't have the words to really clearly define the experience, all I know is, it happened and it was for a reason.  I took a workshop with Diego Pinon called Butoh Ritual Mexicano.  I have always wanted to take a workshop with Diego after hearing from friends who studied with him.  I went in there with no expectations.  (I don't want this to be a review of the workshop so go to www.diegopinon.com to find out more about Diego and Butoh Ritual).  Since his work draws a lot from energy work itself, I couldn't help but know and feel that my mind, body and spirit needed this.

There were so many different exercises that created this collective with everyone in the group.  Giving and receiving energy non-stop and feeling, feeling, feeling.......In a nutshell, the whole weekend was about feeling.  There's no other way to put it.  We were all feeling things moment to moment and moving and dancing from that feeling inside all of us.  If you can't feel whatever is inside you, why perform? why share? This was the ongoing inquiry Diego presented all weekend.

During and after this workshop, I became more clear about my desires and needs of my path.  It allowed me to see the power and importance of connection with others.  How we're always wanting to connect with others on a deeper level, yet our culture, world, society may view this as inappropriate or there's a time and place for that.  Why can't we connect all the time on these deeper, conscious levels?  I know many people have fears, but that's just one of the so-called "reasons".  I decided for myself that I not only want to connect more and more with my deeper self, but a LOT MORE with others through this work I experienced over the weekend.  I want to help, support and guide others to do this in my yoga classes and dance workshops.

I also became more clear about this stage in my business.  Since I will be relocating back to the east coast in a year, I decided to use the time I have in the SF Bay Area to learn from what I have to offer and enjoy it at the same time.  In other words, ENJOY what I'm doing! No matter what it is, allow myself to feel it all.  I have been in this paradox for quite some time, but I finally feel that I can go with it without fear and doubt, as long as I ask for support and know it's there. 

Video of my performance at Bare Bones Butoh Presents 16

Watch my video, "Snake Goddess" from my performance last weekend

http://vimeo.com/8687572

Enjoy and feel free to share!

weekend of play

it was a full weekend, but of wonderful things. i performed friday and saturday night; saw avatar; taught yoga; took a butoh workshop; went food shopping and made dinner with my hubby.

performing was fun, surprising and exhilarating! i performed to yma sumac, an amazing peruvian singer of the 50s and 60s who can sing in 4 octaves (sorry, mariah but she outdoes ya!). the name of my piece was "snake goddess" in which i did become a snake goddess. i not only had the white, butoh make up on, but something really broke out inside of me. i love it when my playful self comes out, along with my sensual, sexual self. what's even better is that it's so meshed and integrated together. that's what made it so fun!

i'm not going to go into everything i did but i have to share about the workshop for my own needs and for memory. we did this exercise which i absolutely adore. one person represents seaweed and the other represents the current. the seaweed keeps their feet grounded and eyes closed, while the current intentionally touches a part of the seaweed's body. then the seaweed reacts to it. as we really progressed into the exercise, the teacher had us add sound, instead of touching then words or text. the seaweed could now move about, reacting to the stimulus. when i was the seaweed, my current gave me the following words i remember so far:

red, sodium hydroxide

i wish i could remember the others but the images that came up were of hardness, coldness, like branches of a tree in the middle of the artic, but the color red. no leaves or life on this tree because of the cold. yet, my body was there in that space. i can picture it now in the middle of the arctic ocean, emerging as if it wants to escape, yearns for rescue and refuge. a lot of feelings/emotions come up around that image. wanting to move forward but there's fear. fear of what? the unknown? beauty can emerge from the darkness.

i'm going to end there....

Butoh Workshops this weekend

I'll be attending Sunday's workshop. Totally psyched!

Workshop #1
Syzygy Butoh Workshop
Taught by Nathan Montgomery

Saturday, Jan 9, 2010
2:00-5:00 pm
Studio 210, 3435 Cesar Chavez (@Valencia)
San Francisco
$35

In this workshop we will focus on recovering and cultivating physical dignity in the body and expression. Syzygy Butoh proposes a dance training in which we develop energetic presence in order to liberate our impulses and learn to work with all our energetic qualities. We start by exploring the empty body, or corpse body. From there we move into progressive explorations of standing, walking, running, twisting and jumping. By focusing on these simple physical actions we can recover basic energetic principles of presence in the dance. We then move into improvisational explorations that challenge us to reach beyond our normal movement patterns and explore our connection to multiple dimensions of body, space, time and content. For example, we may explore what the quality of stone has to teach us in dance, or the quality of paper, flower, wind, water, etc. Come with a beginners mind. No previous dance training necessary.

Nathan teaches and performs throughout the United States. He has studied Butoh for over ten years with Diego Pinon, as well as spent time in Japan with the Ohnos. He works in collaboration with such groups as Human Nature in Arizona and the CarpetBag Brigade of San Francisco. He co-created TinHouse Experimental Dance Theatre in Boulder, CO, and continues to base his productions there . In classic proscenium, on mountaintops, or in the town junkyard Syzygy performs in diverse venues. and settings. For Nathan, while the work is originally connected to the seed of Japanese Butoh, Syzygy grows as an American Butoh.

Workshop #2
The Poetic Body
Butoh: connection, spirit and form
Taught by Jennifer Hicks

Sunday Jan 10, 2010
12:00-3:00 pm
Studio 210, 3435 Cesar Chavez (@ Valencia)
San Francisco
$35

The Poetic Body is a movement laboratory for those interested in traveling deep into movement consciousness in the context of dance/theatre. Topics of exploration toward choreography may include personal memory, embodying imagery, awareness training, translating poetry to movement, puppetry techniques for the body, meditation, physical stamina training and choreography/designing space. Splicing metaphors and specificity of form, we become the worlds and carry its atmospheres. Exercises range from slow internal focus to chaos. The physical and energetic body transforms through birth, influence and letting go, revealing a new relationship to imagery, the audience, and body/mind. Combining movement imagery with space, shape, time, gesture, relationship and kinesthetic delight. Spirit, space, atmosphere, partner exercises meet though form.

Ms Hicks believes form must go hand in hand with spirit for the theater, not one chancing the other. We will explore pure kinesthetic joy of moving and finding connection to space, self, others and spirit as well as finding a repeatable form. We will work with form/technique letting spirit erupt from inside. We dance from metaphors and experience, colliding worlds open to a river of thoughts and feelings. We move from earth, from emptiness, from strength and from turmoil. From specificity, we create, through spirit we dance. Students will work as a group, solo and in partners.

Jennifer is of the 3rd wave of butoh artists which began dancing in the United States in the late 1980's/early 1990's. She has studied with many Japanese Butoh Masters, but her main mentor is Katsura Kan. She has also been influenced greatly by her study with Maureen Fleming and early training in butoh with artists such as the Tamanos at the San Francisco Butoh Festivals. Her other influences include modern dance, Body Mind Centering, Yoga, The Viewpoints, Shintaido and Trancedance. These aspects are taught in unique combination creating an ongoing investigation into how one is to take Butoh, as a viable performance technique, into the next century. Let's talk, dance, and share ideas.

Basic class structure: brief meditation - warm-ups to unify the group, stretch and train the body/mind - dynamic group, partner or solo exercises designed to build spirit, energy and focus - work with butoh kata or forms - combine into dance/set in space and time - closing.


Once again, to sign up for these classes, or for further info on the performances, please contact:
Bob Webb
bobwebb20@hotmail.com
415-821-7124

Bare Bones Butoh Presents 16 this weekend!

I'll be performing this weekend. Come check it out!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Benefit for a member of the community who wishes to remain nameless.

WHEN:
Friday Jan 8, and Saturday, Jan 9, 2010 (yep, that's this coming weekend!)
Both performances are at 8:00 pm

WHERE:
Studio 210
3435 Cesar Chavez St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Studio 210 is located in the former Sears Building, inset from the corner of Cesar Chavez and Valencia Street. Accessible by BART - 24th St Station; and MUNI - #27, #12, #14, #49.

TICKETS:
$5-$20 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Additional donations are graciously accepted and gratefully appreciated.

WHO:
This time around: Christina Braun (Sat only), Cheryl Burns, Shelley Cook-Contreas, Michael Curran (Fri only), Mark Deutsch (Sat only), Jennifer Hicks, Henry Kaiser, Mateo Lugo, Luku (Fri only), Martha Matsuda (Sat only), Ri Molnar (Fri only), Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney (Sat only), Shawnrey Notto (Sat only), Liz Roncka, Liz Saari-Filippone, Sharoni S. Seigel, Bob Webb, and Daniel WrightAbigail.
Surprise guest artists may well also be performing. There are often last minute additions (local, national, and international artists) to the programming, it's that kind of show.

Bare Bones Butoh Presents is a performance showcase for local and International artists working in the areas of Butoh, Performance Art, and/or Ritual Performance. It exists for artists to try out new material, show works in process, hone improvisation chops and redo or revisit previous material. Bare Bones Butoh Presents employs the grassroots ethic of working together to sustain an artistic culture.

The minimal fee the audience pays at the door allows Bare Bones Butoh Presents to function as a fundraising platform which supports local Butoh and Performance Artists. Every Bare Bones Butoh Presents show has been a Benefit Performance for an individual or group within the Butoh/Performing Arts community in need. Bare Bones Butoh Presents 16 is no exception. All proceeds from these performances go towards a member of the community who wishes to remain nameless. Please feel free to donate freely, it's a good cause.

Bare Bones Butoh Presents is community building and performance all smushed together into two evenings.
We hope to see you there.

For further info on the performances, or to register for the workshops, please contact: Bob Webb
bobwebb20@hotmail.com
415-821-7124

Footage from my solo performance

Hope you enjoy this video of my recent solo performance, "MeBardo". It was part of a larger show called Limbo: What Happens Between. It was my first solo at a huge venue and it was 20 minutes long! That's huge for me. It's also a very personal piece, depicting inner struggles and conflicts we have with the self. Resistance vs. Acceptance. Love vs. Hate. Fear vs. Desire. Seen vs. Unseen.

Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/7364099

After the performance....

So the show I put on with my fellow co-producer/collaborator, Limbo: What Happens Between, was a success! I can't believe it's over. All that work really paid off and then when it's over, one can say, "what now?" or what I say, "Alright! Time to pamper myself!". That is what I'm doing this week. I put my body, mind and spirit through a lot this weekend and it was all very wonderful. But my body is feeling the toll and I could use some bodywork! Today, after work, I'll be getting deep tissue and then Thursday some Vibrational Healing Massage. Overall, I'm very happy with the way the show turned out. We got great feedback from people and people loved it! I'll be posting some video footage of just my piece. I have to say, my work is very personal, intense and cathartic. I had an emotional release after my performance on Saturday night. I really went deep into those dark places with my piece. That's really what butoh is about in many ways. Allowing to let yourself go into those places and let go of what you think you are or how you may look to others. Things really can manifest in this work which is why I would love to teach it. So many things I wanna do! We'll see.

Upcoming New Work: October 23-25

LIMBO: What Happens Between
October 23-25
Friday and Saturday, 8pm
Sunday, 7pm

Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street @ Mission
SF, CA
by 24th street BART station

Part of Celebrate: Butoh Dance 50th Anniversary Festival:

Liz Saari-Filippone, Bob Webb of Bare Bones Butoh, and several special guests come together in "Limbo (What Happens Between)", a Butoh performance. Using the extremes of Butoh we delve into the areas between the beautiful and the grotesque, flesh and spirit, light and dark, yin and yang, open and closed, then and now, this life and the next, the inner heart and the outside forces that weigh on it. Where do you come from? Where are you going? Come explore with us that grey area in between...Limbo...and find out what happens.

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