08/31/2022
We are happy to announce we are resuming our Bayview Butoh Saturdays! Please join us for more magic at the Bayview Winery!
(((Hiroko Tamano - Bayview Butoh Classes))) ~ Saturdays, Sept 3rd through Oct 8th~
~Hijikata/Tamano Butoh Method ~ and Performance Developement , with our ever-surprising Master-Teacher Hiroko Tamano. Assisted by Shelley Cook-Contreras
WHEN: Saturdays, Sept 3rd thru Oct 8th, 12:00 to 4:00 every week
WHERE: Bayview Winery Studios: 3030 Ingalls St., San Francisco, Ca 94124. (3rd street transit)
COST : $45 per class. or Prepay for 6 classes $35 each! 210.00 for series. SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE.
CONTACT to Register for class: Shelley Cook- Contreras, text/call 661-478-9983
Hiroko Tamano has an amazing teaching style! She challenges your imagination and your physicality - all with a poetic, joyous, and often funny wisdom of a master artist/performer! These classes are fun, energizing to to body and spirit, and appropriate for all level “movers”. It’s an opportunity for deeper training with Butoh Master Hiroko Tamano, in the experimental, imaginative discipline of the Hijikata~Tamano Dance Method. Training will include Butoh warm-up, choreographic study, and time for artists to share their work-in-progress/improvisation. Stay for our Hot Soup Supper and creative discussion with Hiroko! Shelley Cook-Contreras will lead Regenerative-Body Warm-ups, and Discussion, with special practices each week.
Participation in our class production in mid-October is recommended but not required, Bare Bones Butoh Showcase, Oct 14th, and 15th. Studio 210 Theatre, San Francisco !
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, Katsura Kan, and Maureen Fleming, creating many solo and ensemble works within the Butoh discipline. She sees art as the subconscious expression of humankind, and that, like dreams, art communicates hidden truths with-in its images. Her teaching blends art practice with the body wisdom from 30 years as a bodywork practitioner, (freemotionbodywork.com) She can be contacted at 661-478-9983 ShelleyCook-Contreras.com
