We are very excited to begin hosting events in person again
We are not currently hosting any online workshops.
Wellness, WITD Team
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Morning Tai Chi with Josie J Fridays 11am-1230pm
Every Friday class would cover basics and foundations with goals of learning the complete Yang (short) Form. There will be time for practice in class. Traditionally Tai Chi is learned by following, we will follow this, but will also cover application of techniques.
$15 Donation, to sign up email:
info@razethewhitebox.com
TEBBY W.T RAMASIKE, BLESSING CEREMONY AND AFRO-BUTOH
May 15/16, 10-1pm pdt
Day 1 Blessing Ceremony with musical accompaniment with Ben Brown
Day 2 Afro-Butoh Workshop
Pay what you Can
"...in which we will be working with the principles and elements of Butoh and African ritual dances, not in their traditional and ethnic form, but looking into their spirituality, how their parallels and similarities differ and influence each other. - T.W.T.R."
www.tbodance.info
www.benbrownsounds.com
YUMIKO YOSHIOKA, BODY RESONANCE
May 30/31, 10-11:30am pdt // 1-2:30pm edt
Belonging to a third generation of Butoh artists, Yumiko has developed a personal style of bodywork called Body Resonance, which integrates Butoh practice with features of Noguchi Taiso gymnastics and various other Asian training methods to help prepare the body to receive and transmit dance and inspirations.
Donation Based // SOLD OUT
http://www.yumiko-yoshioka.com/
MINAKO SEKI, POWER OF THE IMAGINATION, PART 4
May 22-24 10-11:10am pdt // 1-2:10pm est
Let’s connect and vibrate together! You can choose to attend 1, 2 or 3 days.
You don’t need to have participated in any other workshop to join us!
This workshop is open to everybody, from 8 to 88 years old, who likes to dance with a playful heart!
Donation Based
mail@minakoseki.com
http://minakoseki.com/
Mizu Desierto, Bodies of Water
Summer Series
Slowing down time into a microscopic awareness of one’s cells, tissues and organs, we are moved by bodies of water — contained by our own unique relationship to weight, gravity, fluidity, adaptivity and the planet we stand upon. Through the receptive body emerges a pathway of imagery and natural response between the unconscious, intuitive and elemental. This is the source from which we can create our own intelligent and healing movements in the world and on the stage. Open to movers of all bodies, all ages, and all abilities.
This class runs for 7 weeks, May 20th - July 1
Donation Based
mizu@witd.org
Lital Firestone & Mizu Desierto, Deviant Bodies
Summer Series
Ongoing FREE online space for self-identifying transgender and gender non-conforming folks to develop storytelling skills through movement, drag, improvisation, magic and delirium. Together we have been exploring how performance art can undo the assimilation our bodies have learned from years of heteronormative, white, capitalistic systems. We plan to continue this series until further notice. Each week we use a different theme (e.g. privilege, masculinity/femininity, boundaries) and rotating medium to expand our understandings of gender and effective community building.
Crystal Sasaki, Movement Feels
Summer Series
Inspired by Authentic Movement. Crystal facilitates this small group engagement as a somatic improvisation and sharing practice, encouraging us to connect with our emotional body, follow what comes, and see each other. Each mover is given solo time to be witnessed and reflected, there is conversation, there is moving together.
crystal.sasaki@gmail.com
www.cjsasaki.com
Josie J, Corporeal Reformation
Summer Series
In this class Butoh is seen as a sacred dance. A sacred dance with a subversive lineage in performance art and decolonization. We will cover Butoh basic methods as well as cover individual students desires to construct a personal dance/ form. Lineages in this class stem From Tamano/ Hijikata method, Body Weather, performance art, and Chinese esoteric/ martial arts. Basics cover breathe, living poetics (a form of notating movement images), flow, body maintenance/ flexibility, and conditioning.
Loose or comfortable workout clothing is recommended. Butoh is usually practiced barefoot.
Donation based $15-23 no one turned away for lack of funds. Alternative exchanges welcomed.
venmo: razethewhitebox
paypal: jjjuarez.usa@gmail.com
email: info@razethewhitebox.com