Butoh History – Julie Becton Gillum and Asheville Butoh Collective

Kamakura

Julie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:34:01 +0000

On Monday July 20, I went to Kamakura, which was the capital city of Japan between 1192 and 1333. It is a religious hub with 65 Buddhist temples and 19 Shinto shrines. We hiked from temple to shrine and saw many but not all of them. Ginger and I were guided by our new …

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“Butoh History in Asheville” (1997-the present)

Julie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:57:42 +0000

1997 Julie Becton Gillum (JBG), Susan and Giles Collard attended Min Tanaka’s performance based on the life and writings of Edgar Allan Poe, PS 122, New York 1998 GooSayTen, featuring Itto Morita and Mika Takeuchi, workshop and performance at BeBe Theatre 1998-2002 (5 summers) JBG attends San Francisco Butoh Festival 2000 …

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Butoh Choreography and Performance by Julie Becton Gillum (2000 – 2008)

Julie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:44:29 +0000

“Tunnel” for the 2008 River Sculpture Festival Bio – Julie Becton Gillum: As founder of three modern dance companies and finally Legacy Butoh, Gillum has been creating, performing and teaching dance in the US, France, Cuba and Mexico for over 40 years. She currently teaches modern dance, musical theatre, performance art and butoh at Warren …

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Butoh Roots

Julie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:02:57 +0000

Butoh History: Originating in post WWII Japan, Butoh dance is a postmodern movement in which formal dance technique is eschewed in favor of primal and idiosyncratic styles that transform the human body and allow raw primal energies to come into being. Butoh is one of the major developments in contemporary dance in the later half …

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