This 12+ hour, two week course is designed to give students a basic introduction to Butoh Dance, the avante-garde expressive dance-theatre form which originated in Japan in the 1950’s. This course is a great fit for dancers, actors, and artists of all kinds who may be new to butoh or experienced butoh practitioners who want to learn in Jordan’s signature approach.
This 12+ hour, two-weekend course is designed to give students a basic introduction to Butoh Dance, the avante-garde expressive dance-theatre form which originated in Japan in the 1950’s. This course is a great fit for dancers, actors, and artists of all kinds who may be new to butoh or experienced butoh practitioners who want to learn in Jordan’s signature approach.
Though Butoh has often been intermingled in courses on Physical Theatre and side-lined as a somehow ‘exotic’ movement form, I believe that training in Butoh deserves its place as a primary approach to developing the movement and imagination of actors across genres.
NOTE: This event has passed, to read an online version of the presentation, click here: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104599. ————————- I’m honored to …
I’m tremendously excited to be a Guest Instructor / Co-Teacher for Ren Gyo Soh’s Weekly Drop-In class starting April 5. Come join Yokko and I on Mondays, 8pm – 9:30pm EDT (New York), April 5 – May 10 for some online Butoh / Physical Theatre training.
In this 22.5 hour, week-long intensive participants will engage tools from Butoh Dance and European Physical Theatre traditions to cultivate deeper awareness, imagination, & expressive capacity, while creating an original performance, which will be showcased at an online public showing on June 5.
I sometimes get asked for resources on specific theatrical disciplines like Clowning. Here are a list of some of my …
This 50-minute movement class for actors/performers is inspired by some of the key teachings of French theatre practitioner, Jacques Lecoq (1921 – 1999).
“The Artful Token” is a contemporary commedia-style adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s ”La Vedova Scaltra” (“The Artful Widow”) created by a team of nine Virginia Tech undergraduate actor-creators in collaboration with School of Performing Arts Teaching Fellow, Jordan Rosin, and guest artist, Fabio Motta.
Mondays & Wednesdays, 9am Pacific / 12pm EDT (UTC -04:00)(Extended test-run August 3 – 26, 2020)Online via Zoom This 50-minute …
