June 2008

June 12. Thursday at 8:00 pm.
Massimilian Breeder performs Wurlitzer Repetitions
Tickets: $5.00

Born in Genova in 1978, Massimilian Breeder educated himself with the reading of the newspapers, and through the news he learned how to play a broken piano. At the moment he lives and works in New York City. (Using an old 1951 Wurlitzer Piano no longer in working conditions I play musics based on the rudiments of repetition. A cycle already occurred is ready to began again in a training exercise showing a symptom of evolution in its reiteration.

check out Massimilian here: http://www.last.fm/music/Massimilian+Breeder/?autostart=1





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June 26-29 Sunday - Thursday at 8:00 pm.
Dance Performance and Video Installation
performed by: Yuko Kaseki, Luigi Coppola, and Isak Immanuel

To (untitled portrait and ocean)
tickets: $20.00
*reservations recommended. please call 323-226-1158 or email: studioforsocialsculpture.ignite@gmail.com

A meeting of performance art installation, videologue, and intimate dance theatre remapping anomie, travel, and the gravity of location. The work is pieced together by an international collaboration of artists from three different countries: Yuko Kaseki (Japanese Butoh dancer and physical theatre artist based in Berlin working with cokaseki and inkBoat), Luigi Coppola (director of the Italian based performing arts company LOSS), and Isak Immanuel (interdisciplinary performance and visual artist and founder of the Floor of Sky series in San Francisco). With amplified bicycle/sound sculpture and a collage of live and recorded music by Bay Area musicians Theresa Wong, Kanoko Nishi, and Zachary Watkins. Additional guests for video performance contributing from Taiwan, Japan, Berlin, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
















June 23,24 7:00-10 pm.
Butoh Dance Improvisation Workshop taught by: Yuko Kaseki
Tickets: $50 for both days

Yuko Kaseki - Yuko Kaseki lives and works as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher in Berlin (1995-present). From 1989 to 2001, Kaseki was the primary dancer in Anzu Furukawa’s company Dance Butter Tokio and Verwandlungsamt. Under Furukawa’s strong guidance, Kaseki developed a rich vocabulary that is rhythmic and elegant, combining elements of dance technique with music practices to create her Butoh dance. Considered Furukawa’s protégé, Kaseki carries a line of Butoh dance that is both strongly defined and unique to common perceptions of Butoh.