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Katsura Kan and his duet partner Gabrielle Daris present "Fable in Two" with live music by Francios Sardi. Blending Butoh and Western dance, the work is characterized by improvisation, embodiment of character and striking visual images. It investigates ideas about humanity and the environment, the world of technology and nature, and the natural cycle of things. Kan, is a Master Butoh artist from among the ranks of Japan's first generation of Butoh. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe, "Byakkosha" known for its austerity and integrity, rather than the theatrical glamour other troupes became known for. He is a celebrated solo and collaborative performer as well as choreographer. Kan has worked with what he calls "minority dancers" all over the world, in remote locations throughout Africa, Europe and South East Asia for the past 28 years, in addition to his creative works in cosmopolitan culture.
Corpus Delicti presents "Mi Casa Es Su Casa,” an examination of outer war on inner territory, from the personal to the transpersonal. The brainchild of Carla Melo & Joe Talkington, Corpus is an LA-based butoh performance company born out of the historical mass movement to oppose the U.S. Empire, debuting on February 15th, 2003 with 25 performers who joined over 100,000 protestors in Hollywood for the largest Anti-War march in LA history. Since then, Corpus has moved with ease and acclaim between the street, the gallery, and the stage.
Black Stone Ensemble’s "iHuman,” explores our relationship with technology at a time when humanity is rapidly succeeding the upright animal homo sapien, and quickly evolving into the cyborgian posthuman. Using a trans-disciplinary style rooted in physical theatre and Butoh dance, “iHuman” inhabits the "transhuman" ideology. Black Stone is a movement-based experimental performance company making original work that is taut, conceptual, stark, filmic, violent, sensuous, absurd, grotesque and recognizably human. Founded in 2005, their performance style is derived from the artists’ varied backgrounds in Butoh dance, physical and dramatic theatre, Japanese Kyogen theater, Iyengar yoga, and the visual arts. Members have performed with Kitsune Butoh Company, Pilgrim Theatre Research and Performance Collaborative and David Dorfman Dance, and continue to perform internationally with Koichi and Hiroko Tamano’s Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Company and Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s La Pocha Nostra.
Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space is Southern California's boldest center for new performance. Founded in 1989, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages fierce new artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative works.
Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms. Our mission is implemented through four programs (the performance space, workshop/university program and two galleries). Annually, Highways co-presents approximately 250 performances by solo dramatic artists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists; curates and exhibits approximately 12 contemporary visual art exhibits per year with work that explores the boundaries between performing and visual art forms; commissions and premieres new work by outstanding performing artists; organize special events, curate festival, offer residency and educational programs that engage community members in the arts while providing access to professionally-directed instruction.
