Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
3030 Ingalls St,
San Francisco, CA
We will open class learning techniques for self-care and
performance preparations led by Shelley Cook-Contreras. Then Hiroko will lead
the "Tamano Circle Training and Choreography" that she is famous for
teaching. The last part of class will be a time for improvisational movement
and performance development. You can show an excerpt of a “work in
progress", or try an ideas that you want feedback on. This is not a
critique, but it is an opportunity to learn and talk about each others work.
Train with Butoh Master Hiroko Tamano in the
experimental, imaginative discipline of the Hijikata~Tamano Dance Method. The
Winery is a special place to dance with Butoh Master Hiroko Tamano, in the
experimental, imaginative discipline of the Hijikata~Tamano Dance Method.
Hiroko-San has an amazing teaching style. She challenges your imagination and
your physicality - all with a poetic, joyous, and often funny wisdom of a
master performer! These classes are fun, healing to body and spirit, and
appropriate to all level “movers”.
HIROKO TAMANO / co-director of Harupin-Ha Dance Company.
Hiroko Tamano first studied Butoh Dance from its Founder, Tatsumi Hijikata. She
is famous for her passionate and imaginative teaching style, using poetic image
to inspire and direct. Her award-winning 40+year career includes performing and
teaching internationally. In dance, as in life, Hiroko’s aim is to create
experiences that are at once primal and universal, awakening memories
immediately recognizable to each of us. Creating a landscape of sensation, the
Tamano Method expands time into a dreamlike place. Hiroko and her renowned
partner, Koichi Tamano, perpetuate Hijikata’s spirit in their own dance method,
blending elements of Tokyo and California with the cosmos. She can be contacted
at butohtama@gmail.com
SHELLEY COOK-CONTRERAS is an internationally exhibited
performance artist. She earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute’s
New Genres Department, and has taught performance at San Jose State University,
New College, and La Esmeralda, the state university in Mexico City. Her
performance projects have been funded by the California Arts Council and the
National Endowments for the Arts. Shelley trained extensively in Butoh Dance
with Hiroko Tamano, Diego Pinion, and Maureen Fleming, creating many solo and
ensemble works within the Butoh discipline. She sees art as the subconscious
expression of human kind, and that, like dreams, art seeks to communicate
hidden truths with-in its images. Her teaching blends art practice with the
healing wisdom from 30 years as a bodywork practitioner,
(freemotionbodywork.com) She can be contacted at freemotionbodywork@gmail.com
Always challenging, always surprising.
Cost: $20 - $40 (sliding scale)
