Japanese Butoh dance master to visit Vietnam
(VOV) - Katsura Kan, a Japanese master of Butoh dance, will conduct a workshop, a video lecture, and a Butoh performance at Hanoi’s BlackBox Art Centre over October 9–12.
Workshop places are limited to a maximum of 18 participants and open to anyone interested in movement and dance no matter the extent of previous Butoh experience. It will explore Master Kan’s idea of the “curious body” and incorporate group observations of daily life.
The workshop will be conducted in Vietnamese and English. Tickets costs VND350,000.
The video lecture features practitioners, teachers, and students discussing the “Surrealism of Body” and the history of Butoh in the post-World War Two Japanese avant-garde art movements of 1950s and 60s. The bilingual English and Vietnamese lecture is free and open to all.
Katsura Kan’s solo performance will mark his Vietnam debut for the first time. It will also include a short routine from Butoh dance workshop participants choreographed by Master Kan.
Tickets to the free performance are limited to 70 and appropriate for audiences aged 15 and up.
Katsura Kan, born in Kyoto, is a member of Japanese Butoh’s senior generation of masters. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe “Byakkosha” between 1979–1981 before undertaking 20 years of research in Indonesia and Thailand.