Join us this Saturday, 6/4 @ 7:30pm for a special event that is a rare audience opportunity in Vermont!
Grange Hall Cultural Center presents a world traveled production of EARTH TOMES: A Butoh Dance Performance, directed and performed by Joan Laage, master butoh trainer and performer, and also featuring Sophia Solano and Cosmo Rapaport, originally from Duxbury, Vermont
EARTH TOMES
June 4 @ 7:30pm
Grange Hall Cultural Center
$20
Tickets for the EARTH TOMES performance can be found at sevendaystickets.com or by contacting grangehallcc@gmail.com or 802-244-4168.
Directed by Seattle-based choreographer and performer Joan Laage // Kogut Butoh. The project began in 2015 and was first performed in Malmo, Sweden as part of the Somatic Archiving Symposium. The piece then went on to be performed in Norway, Poland, Germany and in England at London's Hackney Showroom and Liverpool's Capstone Theatre. This Production of Earth Tomes at The Grange Hall Cultural Center will be danced by Cosmo Rapaport, Sophia Solano, and Joan Laage // Kogut Butoh.
In an era of hyper-digitization and disconnection from nature, EARTH TOMES offers a visceral revelation of the body as Earth and, through continual transformation, reveals the changing Landscapes of the body.
Seattle journalist and art critic Sharon Cumberland writes: "For those who have never seen a Butoh dance performance, Earth Tomes is a perfect introduction. Joan Laage's style is so rooted, elemental, and organic that it felt like the flow of the earth, as fascinating as lava oozing from the earth's core... The slow evolution of ideas as dancers merge into and out of the center movement allows your busy brain to rest, and your heart and soul to engage deeply in the organic movement unfolding before you."
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