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TASTES LIKE SUGAR 1-day Butoh Workshop

blushing poppy productions & Defibrillator present:

FEBRUARY 26th 2011, PAIGE STARLING SORVILLO (San Francisco)
Tastes like Sugar :: contemporary butoh and image-sourcing

In this 1-day workshop, blindsight artistic director paige starling sorvillo introduces her associative sense-sourcing/image-sourcing practices for dancers, performers, visual artists, musicians and writers. Cultivating our synesthetic awareness in improvisation and composition, we extend our perceptions of touch, taste, sound, sight, and smell into associative and imaginal territories to create image body, event, and atmosphere. We hear red, smell the temperature of dawn and hold in our hands the sound of time passing. Focusing on butoh technique, improvisation, and composition, we will begin with rigorous physical and energetic training, discovering limits of tension and release in both the physical and meta-physical person.

Feb. 26th, Saturday 11AM-4PM, (5-hr. workshop)
$40 early registration by FEBRUARY 24th / $55 after
*Open to all. No experience necessary. Register and full payment due in advance. No refunds

Paige Starling SORVILLO, www.blindsightperformance.org/
blindsight artistic director paige starling sorvillo is a choreographer and improvising performing artist based in San Francisco and Berlin. sorvillo's works are impulsed by specific images and/or obstructions, fragments of text, and emotional/physical states while her performative dialect is deeply influenced by her work in Japanese Butoh dance, Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater and western contemporary dance. sorvillo has been honored to work with butoh artists Minako Seki, Yuko Kaseki and Shinichi Iova-Koga as well as to study with artists including SU-EN, Yumiko Yoshioka and many others. sorvillo and her company blindsight have been presented in New York, Boston, Germany and the Czech Republic as well as throughout the San Francisco Bay Area including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens' ChoreoFest, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, NOHspace, CounterPULSE and the MilkBar International Live Film Festival. sorvillo/blindsight has been honored to collaborate with visual artists Eric Koziol, Ian Winters, & Lucy HG and sound artists Evelyn Ficarra, George Cremaschi, Liz Allbee, Kanoko Nishi, Matthias Bossi & Jon Raskin. sorvillo/blindsight will perform at DC's Kennedy Center with composer Koji Nakano in February 2011 and her current major works, Imaginary facts Necessary fiction and 'in apt, this wasn't a natural disaster' (a collaboration with composer Evelyn Ficarra) will premiere later in 2011.

blushing poppy productions & Defibrillator present:

BUTOH-based training for actors, dancers, performance artists and performers of all kinds and valuable for non-performers seeking enriched body-imagination-sensory experience.
Open to all. No experience necessary. Register and full payment due in advance. No refunds.

Events are held at:
Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery
1136 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60642
www.DFBRL8R.org

Please contact:
Nicole LeGette
blushing poppy productions
blushingpoppy@gmail.com
www.blushingpoppy.org