Workshop Description
This unique training is an invaluable tool for dancers, actors, adult beginners, encouraging participants to open up and expand physically and energetically. The work incorporates Japanese Butoh techniques, guided imagery, bio-energetics, core energetics, creative movement, improvisation, release techniques & elements of Noguchi gymnastics. All levels are welcome.
PERFORMANCE|MOVEMENT: BUTOH BODY
Sara is currently facilitating a 10 week workshop featuring Butoh training, automatic writing and drawing techniques September 29-December 1, 2014. Visit www.butohchicago.com for class details. December 3-8, Sara hosts NYC artist and Butoh teacher Vangeline (Vangeline Theater) in a five day workshop, discussion, and performance series. Register for the workshop or performances
Sara Zalek is an artist obsessed with time travel, experimental science, hybrid animals, permaculture, and the intentional act of transformation. Inspired by Hijikata, Kazuo Ono, Yoko Ono, Pina Bausch, David Bowie, poetry, fluxus, and expressionism, she aims to develop greater openness, acute listening, and fierce collaboration while embodying the collective psyche.
Engaging otherness as it relates to transformative power, Sara uses Butoh training, poetry, drawing, and object-making as starting points. Her creative endeavors are specifically meant to ignite dialog with the public using unexpected encounters; always with unknowns, often with humor, with an intentional focus on the moment when the self is limitless potential.
Sara is most excited to share experiences with artists currently in residence at High Concept Laboratories and MANA Contemporary‒to explore cross-disciplinary work and play, and to be in dialog that encourages more active and direct participation in the pursuit of a thriving economic model for the arts in Chicago and America.
