Tadashi Endo Chicago Premiere
深海の魂 / Shinkai no tamashīi
August 3, 8pm
Asian Improv aRts Midwest, 4875 N. Elston Ave, Chi
TICKETS: $25
His dance is a synthesis of theater, performance and dance. Tadashi Endo expresses the field of tension between ying and yang, male and female, and their everlasting alteration. “He manages to fill that void with a poetic beauty, precision movement and spiritual flavor. It`s like cut grass and cut glass, one smells good and brings back memory, the other cuts into you leaving a scar.” David Carter
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Butoh MA Workshop and Collective MA Student Performance
August 6-10, 2024
@Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219-21 S Morgan St, Chi
Early Registration Discounts until July 15, 2024 Full Workshop including performance: $250
- Full Workshop, late registration: $280
- Single Class: $60
- Multiple Class Packages: Available at discounted rates
- Early Bird Discounts: More details available on our website
Five day intensive Butoh workshop culminating in a student performance. Dance or movement background is not required, but a curiosity for your vulnerable parts is. Tadashi Endo offers challenging warm ups, improvisational scores and choreographic work. He gives a deep view into Butoh philosophy and speaks to what Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata were thinking and tells us about their lives. But first he lets the students search for their own Butoh. This will be Tadashi’s fourth visit to Chicago. He has performed IKIRU- Requiem para Pina Bausch to a sold out show at the Old Town School of Folk Music in 2015 and Fukushima Mon Amour at Columbia College Chicago in 2016. He has led many series of sold out workshops at OuterSpace Studios in Wicker Park, including HAUTNAH in 2019. This workshop will focus on recovering, the space between things, finding new patterns, new imaginations, discovering new sensations, and encouraging continued growth in each of our bodies. We will create a performance together, where everyone will get solo moments to shine, partner work, and structured group improvisations.
ABOUT TADASHI ENDO
Elève of the great butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, is a Butoh-dancer, choreographer, director of the Butoh-Centre MAMU and artistic director of the Butoh-Festivals MAMU Butoh & Jazz in Göttingen. Tadashi Endo collaborates with Germany’s most popular film- and opera director DORIS DÖRRIE, as choreographer for the opera Madame Butterfly (Theater am Gärtnerplatz München 2006), for the cinema film HANAMI-KIRSCHBLÜTEN (2007), the opera ADMETO (International Haendel Festival Göttingen and International Festival Edinburgh 2009) and DON GIOVANNI (Hamburgische Staatsoper 2011, 2012). In all these productions Tadashi Endo also appears as a solo dancer.
ACCESSIBILITY
Co-Prosperity is accessible by wheelchair. The gallery has two 5-inch steps that go into the building. One is from the sidewalk leading up to the front door, and the second is 5ft past the front door. There are two temporary ramps that are put out for events, and can be used for wheelchair access. Bar and restrooms are ADA compliant.
Tadashi Endo is brought to you in partnership with Sara Zalek, Butoh Curious Chi, Watershed Arts & Ecology, Co-Prosperity Sphere, and Asian Improv aRts Midwest.
