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Ongoing Butoh Training Practice

photograph by Sandee Johnson
photograph by Sandee Johnson
Ongoing Butoh Training Practice taught by Julie Becton Gillum
Sundays, 11:30 – 1:30 PM @ French Broad Studios
475 Fletcher Martin Road, Alexander, NC
Suggested Donation $20
Call Julie for more info. or about snow days: 828 683 1377
In honor of winter’s inward journey to the core of the dark cave of consciousness, our first classes will be structured around the concept of “Still Life.” We will explore the relationship between layers of the body from the interior core through bone, muscle, and skin outward into the exterior forces at work on our flesh. We will develop techniques and qualities of body action and inaction.
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REVIEW OF “WOMEN OF BUTOH” – 9TH ASHEVILLE BUTOH FESTIVAL

Produced by Legacy Butoh and Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre

September 2014   Asheville, NC

Written By Ken Fitch

On first alert, one might not expect to come upon a festival celebrating the Japanese avant garde performance art of Butoh in the foothills of Western North Carolina, but for 9 years, Asheville has hosted such a gathering of these highly disciplined, committed artists in a performance form that, despite what some might expect from its exotic name and descriptive terminology, provides a most intense and accessible experience that communicates on deeper, basic  existential levels that dispel any preconceptions through its  fascinating presentation of precise and intense movement that generates its own realm of human experience.

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