A 3-Day Intensive to start off the New Year!
LEIMAY LUDUS Winter Intensive is envisioned by Artistic Director Ximena Garnica as a laboratory for developing and sharing an instinctive, conscious, and rigorous way to cultivate a performer’s body.
The LEIMAY LUDUS Winter Intensive will focus on exploring some aspects of Tatsumi Hijikata’s butoh-fu through the teachings transmitted to artistic director Ximena Garnica by one of his dancers, the late butoh dancer Yukio Waguri.
Yukio Waguri was the main male dancer at Tatsumi Hijikata’s Asbestos-kan from 1972 to 1978. From this period, he kept notes of the words Hijikata (butoh’s co-founder) spoke while choreographing. These words are called butoh-fu, a unique method for choreography. Waguri made his own interpretation of these words and continued to use them as a method for his own choreography and teaching. Waguri passed away on October 22, 2017.
Yukio Waguri worked with LEIMAY directors and many local dancers several times as a guest during the NY Butoh-Kan Training Initiative. We consider him a messenger of Hijikata’s methodology. He wanted to pass on Hijikata’s choreographic process as he understood and recorded it. Thus, in this process of multiple transmissions, this LUDUS intensive will create a space to reflect and share some of the teachings Yukio Waguri left us with.
The annual LUDUS Winter Intensive is open to dancers, actors, performers, movers, and those interested in investigating the human body’s vast possibilities. Ximena will utilize improvisation as a means of personal exploration, thus accessing each student’s individual physical potential so as to develop a unique and individualized movement vocabulary.
Tuition$120 – Full 3 day intensive$45 – Single Day
