news

NEWs

__________________________________________________________________________________________

BUTOH autumn camp / September 9 - 11, 2011

Place: Tūja, guest house "Olnieki"

You are welcome to take part in Butoh Autumn Camp - near the Baltic Sea, amazing place and nature, only 70 km from capital Riga! The themes of the camp will be: base of the traditional Japanese Dance Theatre Nihon Buyo and principles of butoh; empty body; awareness; stone faces; final performance near the sea.

If you are interested, please, write: Simona.Orinska@inbox.lv

Photos from the last Butoh camp in Pedvale Open Air Museum (2010)

Please, see the space:

__________________________________________________________________________________________

DANCE movement therapy laboratory (April - June)

If you are interested in:

new experience what dance movement therapy is

exploring of body sensations and feelings

exploring of yourself and creative communication with others

investigation of different body techniques

More info here

  butoh performance

 "sacred dances of the night"

Already in this autumn there will be new butoh-processual art  performance in the contemporary art space called „Happy Art Museum” (Riga, Latvia, www.pinakoteka.lv). 

The dates of premiere - October 30, November 6 & 27 at 7 p.m. Additional performances - January 15, February 19 & 20 at 7 p.m.  We took part in the theatre festival in Germany, Padeborn on May 19 - 22. 

Now we prepare for Armenia, "High Fest" on October 1 - 10, 2011

The base of the performance is haiku by Japanese poet Kikaku Takarai: „the sacred dances of the night / white is them breath / behind the masks”. 

You can watch clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HWBg1w4uE

Video about performance (in Latvian): http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tv24zinas#p/u/1/8a99I6WHJzc

We suggest to go into "rational mind holiday", allowing to work your irrational brain, body intelligence and emotional self-reflection.  The creating of performance is like a poetry writing on the stage. Non conscious materiality which creates concrete structures in presence. Audience is like some part of this process as we give space for audience's spiritual collaboration. 

This performance is as a result of artistic and theoretical researches of butoh, nature, strong visuality, and body mind interaction. Performance's inspiration came from human transformation into nature's materials which is close to animistic thinking and accent our deep links with the Nature. Everything is alive in the Nature - from born to death. Butoh - time between breath in and breath out.  

The participants of the project: Simona Orinska (butoh, project idea), Modris Tenisons (artist, director), Artis Gulbis (performance & sound artist), Gita Straustiņa (video artist), Skaidra Jančaite (Lithuania, singer), Ken Mai (Japan, co-author, consultant of performance), Butoh Studio, artists Ērika Māldere and Aigars Lenkēvičs (http://www.lampas.lv/en/authors.htm).

Butoh emerged in Japan as contemporary dance form since 20th century 50' - 60'. It was rebellion against consumerism and also returning to Japanese traditional cultural roots. Butoh is keeping cultural dialogue between surrealism, expressionism, Zen, Tao, also performance art, authentic movement, physical theatre. Butoh dancer search for his "body archeology" and recreates these sources into images.  

Philosopher Gadamer H. G. said if self-intertia is base of living creature. There must be stimulus of movement if it is alive. The game is as a self-intertia which doesn't has special aim as mosquito's dance or flow of waves. There is some inner activity always in game. The audience becomes as an active part of this play not ordinary observer.

butoh in THE international film forum "ARSENāLS"

“Arsenāl’s” clip 2010, created by Raitis Ābele un Māris Zommers (studio Tritone -www.tritone.lv). The clip is dedicated to Japan, because this year “Arsenāls” focuses on japanese cinema.

You can see clip here, performed by Simona Orinska: http://arsenals.lv/en/a/9510

The Film Forum was opened by Japanese butoh dance improvisation by Simona Orinska, who together with almost hypnotic sound wave of live music performed by Jēkabs Nīmanis and Uģis Krišjānis made the soul awake “from the mud and blood” and to fly a couple of feet above the ground.

You can see photos here: 

http://arsenals.lv/en/a/9700

http://arsenals.lv/2010/09/25/buto-performance/

______________________________________________________________________________________________________