Embodying the Spirit: the body finds its way
@ Visceral Dance
3121 N Rockwell St, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 8 PM - 10 PM
On view through Sunday, February 23rd
Embodying the Spirit: the body finds its way
Butoh & Nature Workshops facilitated by Joan Laage & Kogut Butoh
February 20–23, 2025
Workshop
Feb 20| Thursday 8-10PM Visceral Dance
Feb 21| Friday 6PM-9:30PM @Movement on Montrose
Feb 23| Sunday 11 AM-2:30PM @Movement on Montrose
Artist Talk
Feb.22| Saturday 2-4:30PM
Artist Talk with Joan Laage, PhD @Heritage Museum of Asian Art
Free ticket/ RSVP: https://www.heritageasianart.org/event-details-registration/butoh-artist-talk-and-community-discussion-with-joan-laage-1
Performance
Feb 23| Sunday 7:30PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Piercing Heart
Solo performance by Joan Laage @Asian Improv aRts Midwest
So many thoughts and desires pierce our consciousness, our hearts, sometimes settling, other times escaping through the fleeting air. Where do we find our freedom and peace? In confinement or total abandonment? Piercing Heart was performed twice with live music by Bill Horist at Shimmer: Seattle Summer Butoh Festival and at the Chapel venue in Seattle in 2023 and at an experimental music festival in Vienna with musicians Florian Feit and Christoph Punzmann the same year.
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Bio:
Residing in Seattle WA for many years, Joan/Kogut is known as the Northwest butoh pioneer. She is one of the few non-Japanese to study with and dance under Yoko Ashikawa in her Tokyo-based group Gnome in the late 80’s. She also studied with Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno.
Joan has performed and taught at many festivals including the first New York butoh festival, Seattle and Salish Sea Butoh Festivals, Vienna’s Hybrid Butoh Festival, Butoh Festival (Tenri) and En Chair et En Son Acousmatic Festival in Paris, and at the Amsterdam and Warsaw Butoh Festival in 2024. Brought by Vangeline Theater, Joan presented her solo Rivers Running Red in New York City. Her work has been presented in Chicago by Nicole Legette. She wrote a dissertation on the butoh body and is featured in Tanya Calamoneri’s Butoh America. Joan directs an annual site-specific event in the Seattle’s Japanese gardens. Since living in Krakow 2004–2006, she has been known as Kogut (rooster). www.seattlebutoh-laage.com
Produced by Sara Zalek, in partnerships with Rika Lin, Ji Yang, and Joan Laage.
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