Movement Works (Dance Performance)

Friday – Sunday, May 9–11, 2008 at 8 PM
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) Presents

An Evening of Contemporary Dance, Butoh & Improvisation by

Photo of Christine Coleman by Victor Harris
Photo of Mariko Endo by Juergen Specht
Photo of Cassie Terman by Ian Winters

General Admission $20
Students/Seniors/CRS Members $15


About the Program

Combining contemporary and Butoh dance, Stop Motion (her signature style), sign language, and clowning, Christine Coleman will show an excerpt from her upcoming evening length show Gobstopper Influence (June 5–14 at CRS), inspired by her childhood favorite movie “Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.” Erin Dudley, after working in a surprisingly American modern style with Butoh superstar Akira Kasai, returns to her roots with a primal and mysterious new collaboration with a sculpture and two tribal musicians. Mariko Endo, former principal dancer with Dairakudakan and a student of Akira Kasai, will share the stage with avant-garde saxophonist Gregory Reynolds in her “A dance and music as the sculpture of consciousness.” Action Theatre Improvisation master teacher Cassie Terman will improvise a solo.

About the Artists

Christine Coleman began studying and performing Butoh in 2001 and has studied with Daisuke Yoshimoto, Akira Kasai, SU-EN, Atsushi Takenouchi, Hiroko Tamano, Yumiko Yoshioko, Shinichi Mono Koga - Ink Boat, Kan Katsura, Ko Murobushi, and Minako Seki. She toured with Corinna Brown (Hiller)—Dean Street FOO Dance in 2002 for the San Francisco Butoh Festival. Christine has performed with Tanya Calamoneri, Celeste Hastings -Butoh Rockettes, CAVE ACTS, CAVEnsemble, and modern dance choreographer Chris Ferris and Dancers. She has been a member of Anemone Dance Theatre since 2004. Her choreography has been shown in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. Christine¹s recent choreography is a fusion of Modern Dance, Butoh, and Stop Motion. Christine graduated with a BFA from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point majoring in Dance and Choreography.

Erin Dudley has been a member of the NY dance community since 1993. Her choreographic work has been presented at Stony Brook University, Suffolk Community College, The Puffin Room, Soundance Studios, CRS, Dance Space Center, Dia Center for the Performing Arts, and Movement Research. In addition to New York performances Erin has had the opportunity to tour Chile, Brazil, and Canada. She recently performed with Akira Kasai at Japan Society. Some of the companies she has performed for include Mimi Garrard Dance Company, Poppo and the Gogo Boys, Azzizz Theater Company and the Butoh Rockettes. She taught Dance Improvisation, Dance History and Technique at Stony Brook University. Erin is greatly informed by her yoga practice and began teaching in New York in 1999. Her yogic pursuits have lead her teach in Japan and to Study in India.

Mariko Endo is a butoh dancer and a healer who uses a combination of Reiki and other massage techniques. She has studied psychoanalysis, bodywork, and Noguch seitai. In 1999 she started to learn butoh dance with Master Akira Kasai in his open class. She began training with Akaji Maro of Dairakudakan in 2000, and from 2001-2003 performed all of the pieces of Dairakudakan as a principal dancer, including performances all over Japan and the US. Mariko spent 2006-2007 working with Akira Kasai at his private dance institute. Since moving to New York City in the summer of 2007, Mariko has been involved in a variety of New York based projects.

Musician Gregory Reynolds is a dynamic musician who attempts to present a personal vocabulary of sound events and spaces that challenge and re-orient the listener by emphasizing a new relationship to acoustic phenomena outside the usual context of 'historical' listening particular to well worn tropes and styles. His unlikely vehicle in these pursuits has been the alto saxophone, on which for many years he has been developing an astonishing variety of acoustic extended techniques drawing from such influences as water, white noise, CD skips, and the complex drones of industrial and domestic machinery.

Cassie Terman is a performer, writer and teacher, currently living in NYC. She performs improvisations nationally and internationally, both solo and in collaboration. She has worked for over 16 years with Ruth Zaporah in Action Theater, is a Senior Teacher of the practice, and for the last 13 years has taught throughout the U.S. at universities, festivals, and theater and dance organizations. Collaborators include Tanya Calamoneri, Shinichi Momo Koga, etiquette, the composer Keren Rosenbaum, and the International Action Theater Ensemble. Cassie holds an M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University.