Thursday, July 31, 2008

Blog Release: Fish Engine

A SPECIAL
NO WALL PRODUCTIONS
+ JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
EVENT

FISH ENGINE

A special workshop and chamber performance of Butoh-influenced movement. Join us in the Cultural District to welcome Japanese/German dance theatre artists Mitsuru and Jennifer Sasaki for their first appearance in the US.


SATURDAY, AUG 2: Introduction to Butoh Workshop
from 3pm-6pm at 947 Liberty Avenue
Admission: No charge

(This is for anyone working with the body. No specific experience in dance or Butoh is required.)


SUNDAY, AUG 3: Chamber Performance of Butoh-Inspired Movement
7:30PM at 947 Liberty Avenue
Suggested donation: $10 at the door

All live, all improvised. Vignettes and movement meditations on “Fish Engine” by Mitsuru and Jennifer Sasaki, Gia Cacalano, and an assembled troupe of Pittsburgh movement artists.

> to RSVP, email us at rsvp@nowall.com
(please specify which events you wish to attend)

A short introduction to Butoh will lead off the Sunday evening performance. Butoh is an avant-garde performance art with origins in Japan in the 1960's. Butoh is no one thing, no single style, but it always has at its center a fragile transformative spark.
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