Join Min Yoon, aka “Citizen Truth,” for the bam bam boom___ workshop at Links Hall from May 27 to 30, culminating in a student performance. And follow with Min’s solo performance, DANCING-BEING-IN-TIME, on May 31.

Workshop Schedule
Tues & Wed May 27/28 1:30-5p
Thur & Fri May 29/30, 6:30-10p
Student Performance. Sunday, June 1, Time & Location TBD (FREE)
Optional butoh ritual performance and a night of community gathering.
* Ticket: givebutter.com/nBNoWP

///What does it mean to dance ~ with impulses of rupture, love, subtle and global disruptions… violence… not as destruction, but as natural impulses, process, and transformation? Finding space and metaphors for pain that is pained again, fragmented and replayed grief, rage against injustice, long exhaustion from defense that turns into something hard and twisted — is there movement, connection, and healing as a natural impulse from our bodies?

Dancing with impulses
Of rupture & love
Hardcore, Softness surrounding
Surrendering

Explosive taste buds
Impulses growing
Loud Numb
Bam Bam Boom

In this Butoh dance workshop experience, we will explore the body as a site of questioning and researching, where the internal, relational, and in the group body — can be explored, confronted, expressed, and move to something else _________? Using the language of the expressive arts with butoh dance, somatics, nature, philosophy, and conflict studies… we’ll dance as a way of knowing… Is gentleness and care the dance needed for our times of polarity and awareness of violence around the world? What is the dance needed in a world of constant microaggressions, polarized thought, and suppressed emotions? There will be guided improvisation, reflective dialogue, and Butoh’s raw, poetic movement language, we will move with trajectories of emotion and dance between opposing truths. Dance with vulnerability, and experiment with our relationship with, next to various human tendencies, and find new patterns in how we can move alone and with one another.

Deeply Playful. Fun.
Strange kinds of Beauty.
I see You. You see Me.

All bodies are welcome, interested in exploring depths with movement. Practices are open for all levels of experience and differently-abled bodies.

ABOUT MIN YOON
With post/butoh dance, vocals, and conflict studies, Min makes intimate, surreal, and psychosomatic performances and experimental moments to create moments of heightened complex / relational emotions, permission to go there, go deep, and look for what is emerging now. Min explores difficult truths beyond language, and against inherited social knowledge, through researching and dancing with unintentional/subconscious movements within impulsive improvisation, physicality, and stillness.

“Not for the attention-seeking economy,” Min’s butoh+ experimental dance and vocal works process what feels more subconscious and unknown in being human such as around pain and violence, to grieve, reveal nuanced truths around the depths of emotions, experiences, and perspectives, and look for new expressions. Recent works switch between researching violence with 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 choreographic experiments, they question what are the images, imaginations, and group archetypes we need for our times, how bodies respond and move together unintentionally in groups, and how we may find instinctual ways to move together beyond how our bodies were trained.

Min describes their method as Butoh / post/butoh / Butoh, as they bring together methods of butoh dance with somatics and conflict studies, and social questions. Min continues to dance with the question of whether butoh dance is mimicking patterns of oppression (+ what attracts us to certain art and media), and… what is the dance needed today.

Min’s performances and social artworks 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.