Sources, Frameworks and the Creative Act on May 2 & 3.

TEACHERS:
Mari Osanai (Noguchi Taiso)
Cass Tunick (Action Theater)
Elke Luyten (Corporeal Mime)
Dana Iova-Koga (Body Weather)
Jubilith Moore (Noh Theater)
Shinichi Iova-Koga (Butoh Dance & Internal Arts)

Place: Z Space, San Francisco

Date and Time: May 2 & 3 (10:30am – 1:30pm)

These six teachers present contrasting yet mutually supportive techniques and traditions at play through the creation process of performance works by inkBoat.

In addition to the purpose of making an art work, our creation practice can be a framework for our being in the world.

Drawing primarily from Performance Art, Action Theater, Noh Theater, Butoh Dance, Noguchi Taiso, Body Weather, Internal Arts and Corporeal Mime, we examine and blend the borders between these distinct disciplines and center meta-explorations of how we create material, the value systems underpinning our process, and how our creations are embedded in and reflective of the culture around us.

Dana Iova-Koga — Body Weather

Dana has been deeply investigating the intersection of dance and biological life, starting with her time on Min Tanaka’s farm several decades ago. Her movement research centers around the cultivation of an evolving, responsive, and animate practice.

Shinichi Iova-Koga — Butoh Dance, Action Theater, Internal Arts

Shinichi’s lifetime in the martial arts and commitment to the Daoist internal arts deeply inform his perception of motion through space. Butoh dance remains an open platform to generate form from mind, body mechanics and the energies that drive the dance to life.

Elke Luyten — Corporeal Mime

Elke navigates through the fields of Performance Art and conceptual dance. Her practice in Corporeal Mime, a codified physical theatre taught by Thomas Leabhart, enables her to place geometry and resistance in the body in order to explore metaphysical counterweights.

Jubilith Moore — Noh Theater

For over three decades Jubilith has been on a quest to embody the essences of beauty and grace. Nohgaku has been her greatest teacher. With its inherent, time-tested and unique principles she is learning how to be, both on stage and in life.

Mari Osanai — Noguchi Taiso

Mari has been teaching, choreographing and performing as a soloist for over four decades, growing from her time with Michizo Noguchi, the founder of Noguchi Taiso. “Human beings are living water bags.”

Cass Tunick — Action Theater

Cass is a lineage-holder, senior teacher and organizational director for Action Theater. She directs, creates and performs theater works that invite collaborations across media – film, music, modern dance, Butoh and Aikido.