Radical Resonance a Butoh Workshop with Julie Becton Gillum

Description: Participants will explore movement and stillness by investigating the body's natural anatomical potential, including floating, hanging, and using strings. Exercises from Noguchi Taiso water body practice and aspects of butoh will help relieve customary societal and cultural behaviors, guiding dancers toward bodily emptiness. Without the constraints of old habits, the unconscious body can respond freely to sensations, forces, and emotional states, becoming a fully expressive body. Dancers will be guided to expand their range of movements, including subtle, unrestrained, fading, animal, and revolutionary styles.

Bio: Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of the 14-year-running Asheville Butoh Festival, has been creating, performing, and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico for over 40 years. She has practiced butoh for 27 years. Gillum was awarded the 2008-09 North Carolina Choreography Fellowship and used the funds to travel to Japan to study Butoh.. see more HERE