COMPOST MIX REMIX
PORTLAND, OREGONpost/butoh dance workshop experience
with butoh ritual performance
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
November 2 Saturday 4-9pm ~ with a short break for dinner
November 3 Sunday 1-9pm ~ with a 1 hour break and evening butoh ritual performance by movers from the workshop experience
+++ November 1 Friday 7-9pm
Performance by Min Yoon and Portland artists
At SEED STUDIO | 2127 N Albina Ave. Portland, Oregon
+++ $150-250 sliding scale
limited spots for 12 people
~~~ email dancetotheedge@gmail.com to join
also email with any accessibility questions and needs~~~
composition, decomposition, combination
In COMPOST MIX REMIX, we dance to sense the process of combining and evolving the ancient natural physical body with the contemporary layers of private and public media and memories. Looking for new mixes, release, pleasurable confrontations, and processes.
This work is inspired by Min’s choreographic research and performances, where they worked with repetition and evolution of one personal theme in the body in changes/cycles over 7 years, as well as fusing with JINEN butoh nature practices of butoh master, Atsushi Takenouchi that bring together the personal and universal senses of nature.
In the two days, we will start with relaxing, releasing, and activating movements, building into dances that are physical and internal. On the last night, we will dance together in a butoh ritual performance.
All bodies are welcome, interested in exploring depths with movement. Practices are open for all levels of experience and differently-abled bodies. The studio is wheel-chair accessible. Feel free to reach out with other questions~
The workshop days will include slow and active movements, as well as spaciousness for integration, trying out, and rest.
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Reflections and questions to be danced ~In COMPOST MIX REMIX, we dance to sense the process of combining and evolving the ancient natural physical body with the contemporary layers of private and public media and memories. Looking for new mixes, release, pleasurable confrontations, and processes.
This work is inspired by Min’s choreographic research and performances, where they worked with repetition and evolution of one personal theme in the body in changes/cycles over 7 years, as well as fusing with JINEN butoh nature practices of butoh master, Atsushi Takenouchi that bring together the personal and universal senses of nature.
In the two days, we will start with relaxing, releasing, and activating movements, building into dances that are physical and internal. On the last night, we will dance together in a butoh ritual performance.
All bodies are welcome, interested in exploring depths with movement. Practices are open for all levels of experience and differently-abled bodies. The studio is wheel-chair accessible. Feel free to reach out with other questions~
The workshop days will include slow and active movements, as well as spaciousness for integration, trying out, and rest.
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With nature and new nature within us
~ Where are the connections and disconnections between relating to Nature, and the modern nature of our city lives? What happens when you embody an element of nature in contrast to modern, mechanical, or urban metaphors?
~ What do we feel,sense,learn from embodied metaphors of nature ecology and pathways?
~ What strengths and characteristics can we dance, embody, and live from nature spots?
~ Butoh dance uses imagery of nature layered with other images to create new feelings and experiences. How do we integrate socio-political questions that are important today, with the body, and explore to know something new?
~ What applies and doesn’t apply to the heady atmosphere we have to live with? Can we think of our mental landscapes as nature as well?
~ In movement, how do we balance the desire to escape into nature with the overwhelming pace of city life? How does the body respond to these competing impulses?
~ For example, metaphors of decay, typhoons, water, and the mother are deep parts of my dreaming body in life, art, and psychology, in how I process and show up in personal and world-level conflicts.
Internally
~ When are we dancing and creating art for pleasure and escape, versus looking for strength and new possibilities for resilience and endurance?
~ How does our inner nature evolve in cycles?
~ What are our organic reactions and possible responses to surprises or processes that get in the way?
~ What makes old archetypes, ours / mine? What queers, subverts, and makes relevant ancient archetypes?
~ How do we notice mental information conflicting with our embodied feelings in movement? What happens when we process and combine the separate experiences and senses?
~ How does your body carry the weights of the collective struggles and yours ~ over time?
Relationally
~ How do our inner natures dance in relation?
~ This experience is important as it creates an embodied practice of long-term values like patience, resilience, and the experiences that go beyond words, as well as experimenting moving together in a temporary community.
~ From disruption and tension, how do new layers and metaphors add to feelings of shifts, changes, and transformations?
~ When all is falling in chaos and disruption. How do we navigate relational webs? What role does connection play in times of instability?
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Dancer Min Yoon fuses together butoh dance, sound, psychosomatic therapy, conflict studies (process work) and artistic practice with nature and awareness.
*** notes
With an intentional and strong container for depth, beauty, and multi-sensory awareness, this will be a place for artistic processing, and not necessarily therapy although no doubt art can be therapeutic. We will encourage community support and Min will be open to talk during some of the breaks.
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ARTISTS BIO
Min Yoon tr. Citizen Truth | dancetotheedge.com + insta @dancetotheedge
With butoh dance, vocals, and conflict studies, Min makes intimate, surreal, and psychosomatic performances and experiences of heightened relational emotions, permission for depths, and the emergent new. Min dances difficult truths beyond language through plurality of perspectives, unintentional movements within stillness and impulsive improvisation, and archetypes. Their dance collages intense imagery and physicality, stillness, and ritual.
Recent works switch between listening to their own body and the bodies of others. Their current solo work dancing-being-in-time depicts loops of movements, vocal tremors, and memories, with the body as an archive of pain, states, and transformation. In dancing with violence, they researched the bodily memories of violence of another dancer to create an auditory theater piece that invites the listeners to move and lightly embody the experiences poetically. In solo dance works, they connect conflicts within the body to archetypes and collective experiences, such as the Joker archetype and feelings of remorse at the edge of revenge, and comfort women (forced prostitutes of the Japanese army) as an older archetype engaging with the #metoo movement. In their choreographic experiments, they question how bodies respond and move together in groups, how we may find instinctual ways to move together beyond how our bodies were trained.
In Germany, Min danced at Dock11, Hošek Contemporary Gallery, Oyoun, ZK/U, Petersburg Arts Space, Trauma Bar und Kino (in residency), Kühlspot Social Club, p7 Gallery, Haus der Statistik, and 4fürtanz (leipzig). In the U.S. Min danced at CounterPulse (sf), Headwaters Theater (pdx), ProArts Gallery (sf), Highways Performance Space (la), Epic Immersive (sf). Min also dances in the streets and many underground community spaces as well as in churches and a temple devoted to Minerva in Italy.
Min’s performances and social art works have been funded by NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (npn) in Germany, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, The City of Oakland, The Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, with other artist residencies and grants. Min has also been a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U Berlin) and an artcorps scholar at the Tamalpa Institute founded by Daria and Anna Halprin.
image by the Mizu Desierto of Headwaters Theater <3 gay gardens
image of pine cone that only flowers, after a fire, by mrg
with big love to Min's inspirations and lineages~
JINEN Butoh by Atsushi Takenouchi
http://www.jinen-butoh.com/
Process-oriented psychology & conflict studies:
https://www.processwork.edu/what-is-processwork/
Life/Art Process by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin:
https://www.tamalpa.org/about-us/our-process
in Portland, I also had the chance to be watered by the teachings, community, and interspecial love by Mizu Desierto:
https://www.witd.org/mizu-desierto
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