Photo: Paolo Porto

Butoh
"The conductive Body"
with
Melissa Lohman
September 24 2018, 6:30-8:30pm
SUGGESTED DONATION $8 OR PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Brooklyn Arts Exchange

The Conductive Body

This work is influenced by butoh and by basic Noguchi gymnastics concepts which consider the body as aqueous and separated from the outside only by the porous membrane of the skin. The internal space of the body is not clearly separated from the space around it. This characteristic allows the individual to receive and transmit impulses in order to move and be moved. 
The body is a highly receptive organism with a long memory, much longer than the single individual who inhabits it. 
Feeling the body’s weight, finding gravity within in order for ideas, images and impulses to have something to adhere to allows different qualities to arise, resonate and dissipate.
  
Class will be divided into a first part for warm-up/training and a second part for group and individual experimentation with specific themes given.



Participants- Open level

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About Melissa

Melissa Lohman is a performer, dancer, visual artist from New York City. She currently lives in Rome, Italy. BFA 2000, School of Visual Arts, NYC. In 1995 she began showing her work as a performance artist in various theaters and clubs in New York City. After returning to dance training a few years prior (ballet, Afro-Caribbean, Simonson technique, contemporary), in 2004 she began training in the Japanese contemporary dance form butoh with Minako Seki. She continued her training with Ko Murobushi, Yoshito Ohno, Tadashi Endo and Katsura Kan. She studied Noguchi Taiso with and danced for Mari Osanai. From 2008-2010 she danced for and collaborated with Katsura Kan in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Since 2010 she has brought her work as a solo performer and collaborator to theaters in Rome, Paris, New York and Tuscania. www.melissalohman.com

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about this series

This series is geared towards the professional development of dance teachers and as a means to offer affordable dance classes to a wide community of dance lovers and movers.

​By offering a collective alternative in the exchange of knowledge in the dance/arts community, Dance to the People mirrors BAX’s commitment to challenge the manifestations of whiteness, able-bodiedness and privilege through anti-oppression, and pro-inclusion work.

​This series is a part of the CREATING SPACE Program. Funded in large part by the Lambert Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the CREATING SPACE Program provides opportunities to support and develop artists of all races, backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and aesthetic traditions.