From a press release:
Butoh artist Vanessa Skantze holds Asheville residency and workshop
Asheville dance companies Anemone Dance Theater and Legacy Butoh will collaborate to host acclaimed Butoh artist and choreographer Vanessa Skantze for an artist residency in Asheville the week of August 5-12. Highlights of the residency include:
Listening to the Bones: The Body as Instrument and Offering, a movement workshop and performance open to the public
Saturday, August 9, 2-5 p.m.
Bebe Theater
20 Commerce Street
Asheville, NC 28801
Creating a space of curiosity and trust while fostering intense physical/mental focus, the workshop will facilitate awareness of the concurrent structural and energetic alignment of the body; explore limits of flexibility and strength, speed and stillness. Dancers work in pairs to develop listening and invoke imagery to be absorbed into the body — creating the offering of Butoh dance. Follow the 2 hour workshop, a studio performance will feature a showing of the newly created dance piece Radiant Poison as well as Vanessa Skantze performing a solo set.
The workshop is open to the general public, no previous experience necessary. For more information or to register, email Sara Baird at info@anemonedance.org or call (646)522-2518. Suggested donation is $30 for the movement workshop and performance 2-5 p.m. or $10 for just the performance from 4-5 p.m.
During her residency, Vanessa Skantze will work with professional dancers to choreograph Radiant Poison, a dance that journeys through four gardens: origins, illusion, creation, and dissolution. Radiant Poison will premiere October 25 and 26 at Grove Park in Asheville as part of UWABE — Art in the Park, a free outdoor dance series funded in part by the Asheville Area Arts Council with support from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
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