I am back in MN after 3 weeks on the East Coast! Cathy and I had an amazing time studying butoh with Maureen Fleming at her Pumpkin Hollow home and studio in upstate New York, and training on fabric with Elsie Smith and Nimble Arts in Brattleboro, VT.
The lowest picture is of a studio in the barn which housed part of the Dancing the Internal Body workshop with Maureen Fleming. We danced about 6 hours each day with a rich palette of butoh imagery, intense conditioning on elastic bands and partner massage drawing from shiatsu technique (yum!). Look at the natural light just streaming in through the walls of the barn . . . we were also joined by a few birds.
That's me posing by the nimble Arts sign outside Elsie and Serenity's main studio space at the old Cotton Mill in Brattleboro, VT. Cathy and I trained on fabric for 3 hours each morning with Elsie at their other studio (that's Cathy demonstrating the setup for a Full Monty drop and me stretching out in the Rebecca Splits), in addition to rehearsing a new duet that incorporates elements of butoh and new partnering vocabulary on fabric. We are very excited to premiere the new work as part of our show at Pioneer Place in St Cloud, October 11-14, 2007. I am also stoked to teach some intermediate/advanced fabric to our aerial students starting this fall.
A HUGE thank you goes out to the Jerome Foundation for supporting my investigation of butoh and aerial arts with a Travel & Study grant. I am certain this trip will stand out as one of my most treasured experiences for years to come . . .
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