DANCEbank Spring session - Michael Sakamoto
Saturdays 11am-1pm, May 16, May 23, May 30 - $12Mind/Body/Time: A Workshop in Contemplative Movement and Character Development
Utilizing pedagogical and participatory techniques rooted in Butoh, postmodern dance, and improvisational performance, this movement-based performance workshop addresses socialized habits and tendencies in our daily mental and behavioral patterns and modes of being. Participants are led through gestural and image-based exercises designed to decipher, interpret, and literally “break” thought, language, and action, empowering our mind/body instruments via semi-improvised structures that perform vulnerable, “dis-abled” versions of ourselves through a process of cyclical self-destruction and reintegration.
Michael Sakamoto is an interdisciplinary dance, theater, and performance artist whose works have been performed in Thailand, Mexico, and throughout Europe and the USA. He is the recipient of numerous local and international awards and grants, including from the Japan Foundation, Arts International, Meet the Composer, California Community Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, and many others. His performances idiosyncratically blend intercultural themes, postmodern pastiche, and the visceral presence of butoh and physical theater in order to challenge audience expectations and reflect on the relationship of self with others and humanity with the world around us. His latest full-length work, "Vestiges of Creation," will premiere November 20-21, 2009 at UCLA World Arts and Cultures. For more info: <http://www.michaelsakamoto.com>
Utilizing pedagogical and participatory techniques rooted in Butoh, postmodern dance, and improvisational performance, this movement-based performance workshop addresses socialized habits and tendencies in our daily mental and behavioral patterns and modes of being. Participants are led through gestural and image-based exercises designed to decipher, interpret, and literally “break” thought, language, and action, empowering our mind/body instruments via semi-improvised structures that perform vulnerable, “dis-abled” versions of ourselves through a process of cyclical self-destruction and reintegration.
Michael Sakamoto is an interdisciplinary dance, theater, and performance artist whose works have been performed in Thailand, Mexico, and throughout Europe and the USA. He is the recipient of numerous local and international awards and grants, including from the Japan Foundation, Arts International, Meet the Composer, California Community Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, and many others. His performances idiosyncratically blend intercultural themes, postmodern pastiche, and the visceral presence of butoh and physical theater in order to challenge audience expectations and reflect on the relationship of self with others and humanity with the world around us. His latest full-length work, "Vestiges of Creation," will premiere November 20-21, 2009 at UCLA World Arts and Cultures. For more info: <http://www.michaelsakamoto.com>
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