Friday January 6, 2023 1p - 4p
Saturday January 7, 2023 1p - 4p
Sunday January 8, 2023 1p - 5p & Community Ritual Gathering from 7p - 9p
Register here: https://witdtheheadwaters.as.me/
Workshop description:
A 3-day workshop intensive on the Filipino context of Butoh through integrating various motivations and movement exercises centering on Kapwa (the shared self; the self in the other). The workshop will explore the valuable Filipino concepts and sensibilities about walang malay unconscious body/ self), pakikiramdaman (sensory and perceptive awareness), and salu-salo as a community ritual gathering. At the end of the workshop, the participants will be performing a short culminating activity open to the public audience. The workshops are open to ages 16 and above with NO necessary background on Butoh, dance or any related subject required in the program.
Objectives and intentions of this workshop are to: 1) Introduce Kapwa Butoh movement as an inclusive and sacred platform for honoring Filipino indigenous wisdom and ritualistic practices and 2) Co-create a safe space for participants to unlearn and relearn about body-mind connection, free-flowing movement exploration and creative dancing with the space
About Sasa Cabalquinto:
Sasa Cabalquinto is a Filipina independent movement artist, Butoh dancer, choreographer, theater and film actress, and artist collaborator from Manila, Philippines. Her work in progress focuses on integrating Butoh, a Japanese avant-garde dance theater into the context of a Filipino body through exploring the notions of Filipino indigenous wisdom and ritualistic practices. She is currently an artist fellow of Asian Cultural Council traveling to various cities across the US to research Butoh dance and diaspora. Sasa is a recipient of the Para Site NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour and Asia Arts and Culture Grant of Japan Foundation Manila for her work, Kapwa— Movement Project. An awardee of Alvin Erasga Tolentino Koreograpiya Award 2020, CCP Choreographers’ Series WiFiBody.PH New Choreographers Competition 2018 3rd Prize winner, and PUP Outstanding Student Achievement Awardee in the Arts in Dance 2014, she is one of the first Butoh practitioners in the Philippines and the first Filipina to study Butoh in Japan. She represented her home country in the Asia Butoh Forum and Vienna Butoh Art Festival together with several Butoh artists from Asia. America and Europe.
www.sasacabalquintoph.wordpress.com
www.kapwamovement.com