Kolkata Butoh Festival
Feb 25 - 28 '16 | 07:00 PM (IST)
Event Information
Welcome to the 1st Kolkata International Butoh Festival.
The festival will be held at various locations in Kolkata from Feb 20-28, 2016.
This is bought to you by Subbody Butoh School, The Arshinagar Project, Iris Home Fragrance & "Katha' Koli".
Supported by Alliance francaise du Bengale, Sampark publishing, Padatik theatre & Ta'aams resturant & Bar & others. We are most grateful to Sourav Dattagupta, for his generous contributions, without which this festival would nt be possible.
About Butoh
Butoh is an avant garde performance art & movement form, that has its origins in Japan in the 1960's. After the second world war, Japan was a country in transition. It was a country still holding onto its old world traditional values while being forced into western democratic values by America's conquest. During this time there was much student unrest and protest.
Theatre groups were performing socially challenging pieces, and there were daily demonstrations in the streets. Butoh was born out of this chaos.
Its founders were a young rebellious modern dancer named Tatsumi Hijikata (1928 -1986), and his partner Kazuo Ohno (b. 1906).
About Kolkata International Butoh Festival
The festival seeks to introduce Butoh to Kolkata and also to explore Kolkata through Butoh. Participants from all over the world will be taking part in the festival.
The festival will include, performances, workshops, lectures, exhibition on Butoh art, film shows & performance poetry. Several collborations with Kolkata based artists, poets, musicians, etc is on the cards.
The schedule for the festival is as follows:
Feb 20 : Workshops for theatre students at Padatik Theatre from 11 am - 3 pm. This is for the students only.
Feb 21 : Butoh lecture & presenation at Kamal Kutir from 4 pm. Entry free.
Feb 25
Butoh performance at Ta'aam resturant & bar @ 9 pm.
Entry free.
Feb 27 - 28
Workshop on Subbody Butoh @ Kamal Kutir from 9 am - 3 pm (both dates).
Fee : Rs 1600 per head. To register - sms 'Butoh' to 8697919308
Feb 27
"Resonating" with Kali & Sick Dancing Princess @ Alliance francaise du Bengale @ 7:30 pm
A collaborative performance with "Katha'Koli".
This is a free event.
The festival will be held at various locations in Kolkata from Feb 20-28, 2016.
This is bought to you by Subbody Butoh School, The Arshinagar Project, Iris Home Fragrance & "Katha' Koli".
Supported by Alliance francaise du Bengale, Sampark publishing, Padatik theatre & Ta'aams resturant & Bar & others. We are most grateful to Sourav Dattagupta, for his generous contributions, without which this festival would nt be possible.
About Butoh
Butoh is an avant garde performance art & movement form, that has its origins in Japan in the 1960's. After the second world war, Japan was a country in transition. It was a country still holding onto its old world traditional values while being forced into western democratic values by America's conquest. During this time there was much student unrest and protest.
Theatre groups were performing socially challenging pieces, and there were daily demonstrations in the streets. Butoh was born out of this chaos.
Its founders were a young rebellious modern dancer named Tatsumi Hijikata (1928 -1986), and his partner Kazuo Ohno (b. 1906).
About Kolkata International Butoh Festival
The festival seeks to introduce Butoh to Kolkata and also to explore Kolkata through Butoh. Participants from all over the world will be taking part in the festival.
The festival will include, performances, workshops, lectures, exhibition on Butoh art, film shows & performance poetry. Several collborations with Kolkata based artists, poets, musicians, etc is on the cards.
The schedule for the festival is as follows:
Feb 20 : Workshops for theatre students at Padatik Theatre from 11 am - 3 pm. This is for the students only.
Feb 21 : Butoh lecture & presenation at Kamal Kutir from 4 pm. Entry free.
Feb 25
Butoh performance at Ta'aam resturant & bar @ 9 pm.
Entry free.
Feb 27 - 28
Workshop on Subbody Butoh @ Kamal Kutir from 9 am - 3 pm (both dates).
Fee : Rs 1600 per head. To register - sms 'Butoh' to 8697919308
Feb 27
"Resonating" with Kali & Sick Dancing Princess @ Alliance francaise du Bengale @ 7:30 pm
A collaborative performance with "Katha'Koli".
This is a free event.
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