dreamBODY/earthBODY: embodied dreamtime ceremony with Antero Alli ~ JUNE 2013 @ Butopia
ParaTheatrical ReSearch & Butopia & Evolver present dreambody/earthbody
an embodied dreamtime ceremony
of movement & voice
with Antero Alli & Sylvi Alli
Weekend Workshop Sat & Sun June 15/16, 10am to 4pm each day
at Butopia on Whidbey Island. $175 Early Bird paid before May 6th ~ $225 after May 6th.
(Special: One graced low-income embodied artist applicant will receive a full assistantship to attend this workshop apply here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soundconvergencenetwork/ )
~~ For Registration, Info on Lodging & Friday Intro Session in Langley, WA & Film screenings in Seattle~~ scroll below~~
As dreamers, we dream and we are dreamed.
This weekend workshop focuses on creation of a dreaming ceremony using three to five movements recalled from our night dreams. In practice, this DREAM CHOREOGRAPHY opens access to the INTERNAL SUBCONSCIOUS LANDSCAPE OF EMOTION, IMAGE & POWER innate to the originating dreams–WHILE FULLY AWAKE. Since developed by author & ritualist Antero Alli in 1986, this ritual has been executed by numerous groups and individuals towards a more CONSCIOUS EMBODIMENT OF DREAMTIME/DAYTIME CONTINUUM ~ the eternal dance of the dreambody/earthbody.
I’m having way more fun than I expected. After 35 years of dance, intense yoga practice and meditation, what a refreshing affirmation: that the goal in Antero Alli’s Paratheatre was not to transcend being human, but to fully embody it.” – Lori Salomon, yoga teacher, Mill Valley CA
For Therapists, Artists, Performers, Film Makers, Healers, Dreamworkers and Spiritual Practitioners; ceremonially opening this gateway between the worlds of Dream & Waking Life taps into a vast, rich & vital wellspring of CREATIVE ENERGY & INSPIRATION.
“Little did I know that paratheatre would lead me into the realm of the internal landscape that is infinitely filled with images, songs, knowledge, and spirit. I have not only discovered my own unique voice, but many other voices as well.” – JoJo Razor, singer/performer, Oakland CA
By FEELING THE BODY DEEPLY and cultivating internal receptivity through a technique called No-Form, we gain safe access to the oceanic wellspring of creativity in the subconscious.
“Paratheatrical work also forces us to do something of paramount importance to anybody interested in any kind of harmonious development of being: through it we feel our body deeply. This may sound like not much, but once it is done, its more profound implications become evident.” – Lapo, filmmaker, Nevada City CA
Antero and his wife, composer/singer Sylvi Alli work together to present specific ritual paratheatre and vocal methods to prepare the group for charging and discharging the dream experience. Paratheatre is a non-performance medium that combines techniques of dance, physical theatre, Zazen meditation, and vocal creations in a RITUAL TECHNOLOGY for ACCESSING THE INTERNAL LANDSCAPE OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. Workshop techniques include a 5-phase Physical Warm-Up, No-Form Practice, Vertical Sourcing, Conscious Projection, Sustaining Care, Polarizations, Embodied Voice and Tonal Exploration.
PRE-WORKSHOP PREPARATION!
Participants should arrive with three to five movements recalled from their night dreams. These movements don’t have to be from the same dream just as long as they originate in your dreams, performed by your dreambody or an animal or someone else in your dream. Choose movements you can replicate after waking. The simpler the movement, the better. An example of a dream movement: you recall someone waving goodbye (the dream movement here is their waving hand).
More details on preparing your dreaming ritual at:
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Special Screenings of Antero Alli Films at the Northwest Film Forum,
1515 12th Ave (Capital Hill) Seattle. $8 admission. Filmmaker in person.
Wednesday June 12th, 8pm.
THE INVISIBLE FOREST (2008; 111 min)
Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkOevXUvL3s
Thursday June 13th, 8pm (Seattle premiere)
DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY (2012; 80 min)
Antero Alli interviewed on ‘dreambody/earthbody’
More about this ParaTheater & Embodied Voice Work:
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ANTERO ALLI
Antero founded ParaTheatrical ReSearch in 1977 as a process and workspace for exploring group ritual dynamics in performance and non-performance modalities. This work is documented in his book, “Towards an Archeology of the Soul” (Vertical Pool, 2003) and in four videos. Between 1975 and 2005, he wrote and directed a series of original theatrical works and since 1991, Antero has written and directed a dozen underground films achieving high critical praise. He conducts a series of 8-week paratheatre labs in Berkeley CA where he resides with his wife of 18 years, Sylvi. More at: www.paratheatrical.com/pages/bio.html
SYLVI ALLI
Sylvi has scored songs & music for most of Antero’s films & theatre works since 1989. Since 2000, she has produced five CDs of both original and traditional songs and music. As a core member of ParaTheatrical ReSearch since 1998, she has applied paratheatre methods to develop her unique Embodied Voice approach. Sylvi teaches women’s private singing lessons and Embodied Voice workshops in Berkeley where she resides with her husband Antero. More at: www.verticalpool.com/us.html
Butopia presents:
DREAMTIME CEREMONY
Presentation of ParaTheatrical Dreamwork
with Antero Alli
author of “Towards an Archeology of the Soul”
Friday June 14th 7 to 9pm at 714 Camano Ave. Langley WA 98260
$10-15 donation
In this presentation, author/ritualist Antero Alli discusses the origins of a dreaming ritual he developed after meeting Aboriginie Koori elder Guboo Ted Thomas 25 years ago. Antero’s deep background in physical theatre, or paratheatre, informed the creation of a choreography of movements recalled from dreams — a ritual dance anyone can perform that evokes a somatic experience of the power of dreaming while fully awake. Antero will demonstrate & invite audience to join this kinetic process to open a portal between the conscious ego and the Subconscious, allowing access to greater creativity, energy, and imagery. Antero will also show clips from his paratheatre video documents “dreambody/earthbody” and explain how this process works with a group of dreamers.
This presentation introduces DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY, a weekend workshop Antero will lead with his wife, Sylvi Alli, June 15 & 16 using paratheatre methods to access and give expression to the presence and power of the dreaming. Antero is the director/founder of ParaTheatrical ReSearch, a workspace for group ritual dynamics in Berkeley CA since 1977. He is also an independent filmmaker and the author of numerous books including “Towards an Archeology of the Soul”, “Angel Tech”, “The Vertical Oracle” (with Sylvi Alli), “The Eight-Circuit Brain”, “Astrologik” and others.
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or Contact Maureen Freehill to send Registration by Check
If paying with PayPal:
Include $5.50 for PayPal Fees on $175 (180.50) or $7 on $225 ($232)
Contact Maureen at 206 855 5836 or email ( momo at butopia dot net) for info on Lodging.
“As an actor, I found Paratheater to live more fully in my body and break old habits. I wanted to stop pushing and performing and this is where Paratheater helped me let go and trust the unknown. It’s releasing the chatter and listening to what the body has to say.”- Marianne Shine, actress, San Francisco
“Paratheatre is a vehicle which when worked at with intent and commitment can take one to places not accessible under “normal” conditions. I thank Antero Alli for his dedication to the Work.” – Julian Simeon, social worker, San Francisco
Essential Embodied Arts Training on the LAND ~ Aug 1-5 2013 in Rocky Mts.
Note: The blue links in BIOs below are not live…scroll down to bottom of page for live BIO links!
LIVE BIO LINKS:
For Maureen: Kazuo & Yoshito Ohno; BUTOPIA: Pacific NW Center for Embodied Arts in Nature; View Daily Dance Videos.
For Christa: Voice Movement Therapy; Giving Voice Productions; Somato-Respiratory Integration; More about Christa.
For Melinda: Anna Halprin
eARTh Syzygy Butoh & Ritual Dance @ Butopia ~ Nathan Montgomery ~ June 6-8
eARTh Syzygy Butoh and Ritual Dance with Nathan Montgomery
THUR JUNE 6th Performance in Seattle FRI & SAT JUNE 7 & 8 Workshops on Whidbey Island
DAIPANButoh Collective & Butopia PRESENT: Syzygy Butoh and Ritual Dance of Nathan Montgomery from Colorado.
WORKSHOP~~ JUNE 7th 7-9pm INTRO Evening $15-25 &/or
FULL DAY June 8th 10am-6pm $85-$100
($85 Earlybird Discount for workshop if paid fully by MAY 8).
Touch the matter of your soul through the awakening & expression of your
myriad humanqualities. We will approach the soul as we would a wild animal, a
God, or a wind on the mountain. Journeying as a group, creating
sacred time and space we will support each other in exploring multiple and even seemingly contradictory qualities through dance. We will
focus on opening energy centers, joints and other gates of the body to liberate and recover ourselves in a ritual blessing for each other, our ancestors and the Earth.
Both days will support you in opening your heart. TO REGISTER: $85 ($88 by PayPal) for one day workshop if paid by MAY 8th.
$100 ($103 by PayPal) for workshop after MAY 8th.
JUNE 6th Performance $15-25 ($16-$26 PayPal) for Friday only.
Contact Maureen Freehill ~~ phone: 206 855 5836 or
email (momo at butopia dot net) to register by check thru mail &/or info onlodging, meals, workstudy, etc.
PayPal registration below--Please include PayPal FEES.
PERFORMANCE~~JUNE 6th 7pm ~$10 at door
Seattle First Thursday Art Walk ~~ at Toshiro Kaplan Lofts Theater
Space on 1st Fl of 115 Prefontaine Pl. S. Seattle, WA 98104
Titled: "Yuhma" Regeneration and rain for the human body as the Earth herself.
BIO
Nathan Montgomery is the founder and director of Syzygy Butoh based in
Boulder, Colorado. While at Prescott College he studied multiple
forms of contemporary dance, improvisation, theater and choreography
with Delisa Myles, Liz Faller and Jay Ruby. In 1997 he met Diego
Piñon who introduced him to Butoh and Ritual Dance. He then traveled
to Japan to study and perform with some of Butoh's most influential
teachers including Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima and Butoh company
Sankai Juku. Since then Nathan has developed his own approach to
Butoh and Ritual Dance that he teaches and performs throughout the
United States and abroad. His work is deeply influenced by his
practice of Native American ritual dance and both his teaching and
performing are rooted in an intimacy with the Wild in Nature. He
believes in dance as a way to touch our indigenous soul (even if only
a memory or dream) as an expression of wholeness in response to the
destitution of culture in modern times. His work has been showcased
in Mexico, Hawaii, Japan and in many US cities. He has taught Butoh
as adjunct faculty at Prescott College and Naropa University and as a
guest artist at numerous university and residency programs. He is the
co-founder and director of the Boulder International Butoh Festival.
Recently Nathan founded the MESA (Movement and Ecology Sanctuary for
Art) Project in Ouray, CO. The MESA Project is a yearly "dance camp"
and film project hosted on his family land exploring themes of
heritage, indigenousity, ecology and art.
Embodied Voice/Singing Body with Christa Ray
The Embodied Voice ~ The Singing Body: Training with Christa Ray at Butopia
Explore a path to Embodied Presence through excavating the full expanse of the Human Voice.
Registration for 12 Now Open~~Last year’s spaces filled fast.
September 27-30, 2013 at Butopia on Whidbey Island, WA $200-250 for weekend training; $75 for optional full day integrative Master Class on Monday.
You will discover:
…how to sing songs and use vocal sounding as vehicles for bringing forth and integrating hidden parts of yourself and your soul.
…how to Heal the fear of freely expressing yourself through compassionate permission and the spirit of experimentation.
…a singing method based on sensing your body, sourcing somatic and archetypal images, and cultivating trust in the raw impulses that allow you to move authentic and powerful energy through your voice.
…exercises to vastly expand the range, volume, power and qualities of your voice.
…the archetypal singing shaman within you capable of singing songs to bring nature, community and self into balance and health.
This 3 day workshop (with option for 4th day) explores Voicework as a path to healing, embodiment of the Soul and rich empowerment. Exercises and creative processes will be drawn from Voice Movement Therapy, Body Mind Centering ™, Shamanic Voicework, Roy Hart Voicework and other expressive healing art modalities.
No vocal experience necessary, just a willingness to explore, play and let your voice guide you!
Christa Ray, MFA, VMT has taught Voicework for 20 years. She is a professionally trained Voice Movement Therapist since 1996 and studied directly with Paul Newham, creator of Voice Movement Therapy in England. She is also a theater artist with a MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. Additionally, Christa is a energetic & shamanic sound healer and wellness educator with a private practice in Boulder. She is dedicated to supporting people in their healing and awakening journey through helping them cultivate safety in their body-minds to allow for the full retrieval and creative expression of their soul.
Please visit Dragonfly Arts FB Page for more information on Christa Ray
Contact Maureen Freehill to register:
momo {at} butopia {dot} com or
206-855-5836
http://www.butopia.net
This is a residential workshop/retreat starting Friday evening and ending Sunday evening, with an optional Master Class with one-one advanced training on Monday.
Christa usually charges 250 for this awesome training and has graciously agreed to offer us Early Bird registration of just 200 with 100 dollar deposit by July 10 just for us. Wow!
After July 10 it is $250 for training. Deposit (minus $30 process fee) is refundable up to 2 weeks prior.
Additional $75 for deep personal integrative voicework on Monday.
Add local lodging with water view, kitchen and bath for just $30 per night/pp. Wonderful!
LOOK~ what past participants are saying:
I woke this morning with a feeling of elation! Wow! I can’t stop singing and making weird crazy noises, I crack myself up and start all over again 
I didn’t know why I was so called to do this retreat and now I know… true bliss. I am deeply deeply touched by all at the retreat. Thank you to Christa for providing a safe environment to play in and what a treat to be doing the work on sacred land and in the most amazing space…. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh –Karen Burley-Chonzena
Amazed and blessed at the growth from this workshop. I have written over 10,000 words already…I am just gushing. The dam has been blown and the river is flowing freely. How do I express my gratitude? Christa, your loving guidance took me into places I couldn’t see. You knew where I was when I didn’t. A beautiful balance of directing presence when I got stuck or stale and respect of sovereignty allowing and inviting my unique exploration and expression. –Em Alla Sevol, Olympia, WA
Thank you for this glorious, deep, rich time – I will be digesting and integrating the experience for a long time. I had a sense when i first read about Christa’s work that I would feel aligned with her work, and I feel more than confirmed in this. I come out of the experience with the core realization of how primary and healing vocal work can be. To witness each person embody their own particular resonant being was such a gift. I just want to integrate every moment into my being! And we could not have met in a more sacred and blessed location. SOMA Studio held us so gracefully, it was our sacred circle. .–Deborah Koff-Chapin, Creator of Touch Drawing
“Christa creates such a loving and safe container in which to explore the hidden potential of your own voice, body, psyche and spirit. Her workshop was packed full of information and experiences that allowed me to cultivate parts of myself with which I had been longing to connect and meet other elements of myself I had never before accessed. It was powerful beyond my expectations. I feel blessed to have met Christa and am forever changed by her unique and powerful work.” –Christina Stinchcomb
“Christa Ray is an incredible facilitator, holding a potent container for transformation. With myself and the other participants, I experienced her meeting us where we were resourced, then take us to our edge and back. She is a master at encouraging growth while nurturing the soul. If you want to experience more of yourself, connect with your inner shaman, and have a deeper understanding of the polarities within you, Christa’s workshop is the perfect place to explore and integrate an expanded version of you through voice and movement. Healing, fun, grueling, and glorious, Embodied Voice is a temple for profound awakening.” ~KC, Boulder
“Throughout our weekend together, Christa showed great sensitivity to us each as individuals, and at the same time wove our personal materials into a coherent group process that left nobody behind. Although we each came to the workshop with different levels of voice-work experience (from the professional to the bathroom singer), Christa guided each of us in our own way to using our voices to liberate, reveal, and empower. Christa’s approach to voice work has brought me in touch with new facets of my self and my self-expression, and has opened my eyes to a profound way of working therapeutically with others. I highly recommend her as a teacher, mentor, and guide to the inner realms.”
— Anne Rust-D’Eye, third-year MA candidate, Naropa University, Somatic Psychology Department, Body Psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy concentrations
MomoButopia Bay Area Tour ~ March 2013
Tues BuToh MasTer Class &
“Snake Patrick’s Night Oracle”
Performance in SF Bay Area with Maureen Momo Freehill
photo ~ corey raimond
March 17 PERFORMANCE in SF Mission
March 19 Master CLASS in Berkeley
Class Tuesday 6-9pm ~ $35-$80 Performance Sunday 7:30pm $10-12
~details on fees & locations below~
Exploring the Sensual & Imaginal Body with Performance as Deep Personal & Community Metaphor
For this MASTER CLASS: Maureen emphasizes principles & practices from the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, including lessons from both Kazuo & Yoshito Ohno. She is honored to be passing on this lineage & integrating these profound teachings with her own inquiries based in bio-mimicry, sensation, imagination & sacred life arts.
Participants will have opportunity to experience the body as universal material & metaphor, discover personal mytho-poetry for movement in relationship with space, body & others. Each dancer will leave with a “tool kit” of intermodal art practices (movement, voice, drawing, writing) and an exemplary personal repertoire mined from his/her own body & soul that can be developed into performance material if desired. This class is a launching pad wherein Maureen will coach participants in defining & embodying their hearts desires & soul callings into meaningful day to day actions.
$35/per class pre-reg ~~~$45 at door
USE PAY PAL BUTTON BELOW to REGISTER NOW!!
Master Class Locations:
East Bay Class on March 19th @ 6-9pm at LUNA Dance Institute 605 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
“Snake Patrick’s Night Oracle” BUTOH & EMBODIED VOICE PERFORMANCE with Maureen Freehill presented by BARE BONES BUTOH @ Studio 210 ~ 3435 Cesar Chavez St at Mission in San Francisco ~~ 7pm door ~7:30pm start~~ Featuring Hiroko Tamano, Christa Ray & Deborah Koff-Chapin $10 adv $12 at door Use PayPal button below.
Contact Maureen Freehill for Reg/TIX by PayPal & Class/Performance INFO ~~~~momo @ butopia dot net 206-855-5836 ~~~~~~
Contact Shoshana for INFO on Class Location ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~butohcontact@gmail.com 415-318-9524~~~
OPEN TO ALL LEVELS of Experience
Maureen’s BIO:
Maureen “Momo” Freehill, MFA has over 30 years experience as a performer, educator & director of Embodied Arts and is recognized internationally for her innovative ways of crafting intercultural & intermodal performance as a vehicle for personal & global awakening. As Artistic Director of MomoButoh Dance Company she created the YearOfButoh project (www.dailydance.net) making a butoh dance performance & film every day for 17 months. She is a LifeArtMastery Instructor and Personal Mentor for DailyDance™ & butoh practice internationally (www.lifeartmastery.com); her work has been seen & studied across the globe including appearances at Butoh Festivals in Seattle, Vancouver BC, California, North Carolina, Colorado & Dublin. She holds an MFA in Directing Asian Performance (U of HI) and is a certified Hypnotherapist & Yoga Teacher specializing in Ariel Yoga. She began her deepest LifeArt inquiry in 1994 when she met, studied, performed & eventually toured with her primary teacher Kazuo Ohno, including more than 5 years living in Japan. She continued further training & performance projects with Yoshito Ohno, Anna Halprin, Madame Shen Xiomei (Bejing Opera), Hideo Kanze (Noh), Katsura Kan, Koichi & Hiroko Tamano, Kitaro (Musician), Haruko Nishimura of Degenerate Art Ensemble, PAN, Akira Kasai, Pina Bausch Company members, Diego Pinon & Tadashi Endo among many others.
Maureen directed a Seattle College Theater Department, has been Artist in Residence & presented butoh trainings at many USA Universities; is an active member of DAIPANButoh Collective that produces the Seattle Butoh Festival; and founded a 700+ member international on-line network for butoh enthusiasts. Maureen is now Artistic & Founding Director of BUTOPIA: Pacific Northwest Center for Embodied Arts in Nature where she designed & built the 11-sided Sanctuary Of Moving Arts (SOMA) (www.butopia.org) that opened on 11/11/11 for Artist Residencies, Personal & Group Retreats, Land Based Trainings & Performances on Whidbey Island, WA near Seattle.
photo nobuko shiga
Improvisational Contact with Stu Phillips
Improvisational Contact Dance Retreat with Stuart Phillips
@ Butopia: Retreat Center for Embodied Arts in Nature
in Freeland, Whidbey Island, WA
March 29-31, Friday 7-9pm (open to drop-in $25)
Saturday 11-4pm, Sunday 11-4pm
Full Retreat: $125 until 3/9/13, $150 thereafter
Exploring the Intuitional Body, Creating Relational Dance as Deep Personal Metaphor
What Am I Doing? Where Am I Going? What Is Happening Now?
What Happens Next? Who Am I Really?
1) Entails experiential guidance into exploration that begins with where each specific participant is coming from, energetically, & traveling throughout dance duets accessing, sourcing from this intrinsic material, noticing exactly what comes out of this, how we access, where we source from.
2) Specifically bringing awareness to future choices & accessing inspirational & motivational long term choice points, ie., how we as dancers influence our choices in the moment, what is our long range focus? how we use this to create a story or long term essence vision?
3) Focusing on how we treat ourselves in the present Contact Improvisation dance. How do we tend to focus, with guidance, on perceiving our experience in the dance as it surprisingly unravels? How does viewing perspective of the moment inform the outcome?
4) Looking into the immediate following step, how do we view dance (& life) as remaining fresh & completely new in our improvisation? Where does our immediate future come from? How do we choose this particular arrangement? What can we get rid of in focusing on choosing next step to stay completely real all the time?
5) Where are we coming from as ci dance participants & what this says about who we are, how we experience, how dance informs & defines our experience, hence our identity, or the slipperiness of changing self definition, self identity. What all this means when defining perspective on self empowerment.
206-855-5836, momo@butopia.net, Contact Maureen Freehill for Registration & Information on Location, Lodging, Meals, Work-Exchange, etc.
FRI EVE is Participatory CI Demo/Performance open to public.
Stu Phillips is a Professional Contact Improvisational Dance Performer and Teacher for over 25 years, teaching and performing throughout the U.S., Canada and New Zealand, also teaching and performing Improvisational Dance and Theater for 30 years throughout US. The focus is full expression, tuning to emotional and energetic reality constantly in personal flows, portraying that onto students with gentle psychic sensitivity. He is based in Oakland, California
The Way of Embodied Love~Butopia Mini-Retreat in Nature
SATURDAY~~FEBRUARY 23~~ 12:45-415pm at Butopia on Whidbey Island
An Embodied Arts Mini-Retreat just for couples & singles who wish to delve into heART of LOVE in the BODY & NATURE. The SOMA~Sanctuary of Moving Arts will be our pleasure home, the surrounding land & beauty of nature our guidance & inspiration. Join us for this time out of time as we explore the movement of soul through a devotional artistic & creative process….with the BELOVED.
Participants will learn new practices & tools for sacred embodiment (including the Significant Other & 12 Senses Practices) that can deeply enrich & enliven loving relationships with SELF, OTHER & NATURE and be applied personally & professionally with artistic, healing & spiritual practices; family, work & day to day life.
Contact Maureen Momo Freehill to register thru FB
or at 206 855 5836
Suggested Donation for space & teachings
$35 in Advance $45 Day Of Retreat
For FB EVENT CLICK HERE
Options for overnight stays & work exchange as well.
Inquire freely!
”What happens if I let my heart open NOW?”..What happens if I stop doing and just pause?”….. Such a pause constitutes a form of prayer–a union with the Oneness of Being….Much as a surfer continuously falls through the wave that rises up beneath her, you ground in the still point, falling continuously through the present, as it moves through you…Rather than speak of a willingness to give yourself up to the wave of the present, we might speak of LOVE: a love for the stirrings of the present that awakens your whole Being; a LOVE for the dance of the present that transforms everything; a love for the stillness of the present which, like the depths of the sea, silently receives the message of each ripple on its face, and of every living being that moves within it; and a LOVE for the abandon that enables you to give yourself up to the wild peace of the world as it endlessly runs its course.” ~Philip Shepherd in book New Self New World pp 200-202
Solar Gateway Mini-Retreat~2nd Annual Celebration of Our Cycle Round the SUN!
“Solar Gateway” New Years Retreat~
SUNDAY DECEMBER 30 2012 ~~ 12:45-4pm
~Join BUTOPIA founder/artistic director Maureen Momo Freehill for time out of time to contemplate & celebrate in sacred space of SOMA Sanctuary of Moving Arts… Essential Embodied Arts of Dance, Voice Work, Butoh, Personal Altar Construction, Mindfulness Meditation & Sensual Immersion in Nature are our tools for reflection on individual & collective shifts during 2012. Moving rituals invoke your unique theme, tone & vision to integrate & embody our SOUL path for this next SOLAR cycle! Participants form optional creative partnerships for ongoing play, support & accountability throughout the year. $30 advance-40 at door suggested for the retreat including snacks! Options for extended & overnight personal retreats and barters as well. LOVE!!
RSVP THRU FACEBOOK EVENT HERE
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Beautiful Painting called “Mandala” by artist Kimberly Berg.
Essential Embodied Arts Training 2013 ~ Boulder
Click here and scroll down for Full Details: Essential Embodied Arts Training 2013
20 Hr. Embodied Arts Professional Training with 3 Master Teacher/Performers of Lineages from Voice Movement Therapy of Paul Newham, LifeArt Process of Anna Halprin & Butoh Dance of Kazuo Ohno
AND
Public Embodied Arts Performance: January 13th, 7pm @ Wesley Chapel on CU Campus
~20 hours of professional level training featuring 9 ESSENTIAL TOOLS invaluable for your powerful ongoing Embodied Arts practice, performances and session work.~ A premiere collaboration uniting THREE MAJOR LINEAGES from 3 diverse continents that synergistically enhance one another through second generation experts of the work who distill & strengthen practices with first generation masters.
~Personal breakthroughs & transformation with specific goals & intentions related to BALANCING THE MASCULINE & FEMININE in your life, voice, body and art.
~Awakened attention, increased sensation & active imagination.
~PRACTICAL TRAINING in creating transformative scores & authentic performances that are directly accessed from YOUR UNIQUE SOUL & BODY.
~Accelerating intimacy & authenticity in relationships and communications with SELF, OTHERS and NATURE.
~Initiating an ON-GOING loving COMMUNITY of like-minded practitioners for regular support.
~Freeing up conscious & unconscious inhibitions & blocks to full bodied
VOCAL & PHYSICAL EXPRESSIVITY!
~THREE SEASONED Professional Instructors:
CHRISTA RAY, MFA, VMT has taught Voicework for 20 years. She is a professionally trained Voice Movement Therapist since 1996 and studied directly with Paul Newham, creator of Voice Movement Therapy in England. Other vocal trainings include Roy Hart, Fitzmaurice, and Linklater inspired voicework. She is also a theater artist with a MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. Her theater company Giving Voice Productions has performed award winning original plays in festivals, bathrooms, universities and theaters. Additionally, Christa is an energetic sound healer, a ceremonial shamanic singer and wellness educator with a private practice in Boulder, CO.
MAUREEN Momo FREEHILL, MFA CYI is an internationally recognized Dancer, Asian Theater & Butoh Professional with over 30 yrs. experience as teacher & performer including 5 yrs in Japan working with Butoh founders Kazuo & Yoshito Ohno. She founded & directs land-based retreats at BUTOPIA: the Pacific NW Center for Embodied Arts in Nature on Whidbey Is. WA (www.butopia.net). Her solo & educational works have been produced in 22 states & 6 countries & seen by thousands worldwide through her 600 on-line dance films (www.dailydance.net). Her MomoButoh Dance Company & Suspension Yoga practices directly mentor individuals & groups in LifeArtMastery, Fitness & Wellness.
MELINDA HARRISON, Melinda Harrison is co-founder/artistic director, with her husband David, of Boulder based organizations Dance for Diversity & NatureMoves. Her work brings forth a creative interaction between the human body & imagination, and its environment and utilizes various art mediums: drawing; journaling; and movement in nature to explore personal myths and universal metaphors.
She guides annual Wilderdance retreats & organizes site specific dance events like the Planetary Dance. She is strongly influenced by the life work of her mentor Anna Halprin, co-founder of the Talmalpa Institute and values greatly the Life/Art process, of which she is a certified program graduate.
TRAINING:
Friday, January 11, 6-9pm
Saturday, January 12, 10am-4pm
Sunday, January 13, 10am-4pm
PERFORMANCE:
Sunday at Wesley Chapel, 7-8:30pm
Early Bird Tuition paid in full by Dec. 11th: $175;
Full tuition after 12/11 is $225
Space is limited to 15. Pre-Registration is required.
All payments are non-refundable 2 weeks prior to workshop.
Please contact Maureen Freehill for registration & tickets:
phone 206 855 5836
email – momo at butopia dot net
phone 206 855 5836
email – momo at butopia dot net
SEA~LEVEL: WilderDance Residential Retreat with Melinda Harrison
SEA LEVEL: WilderDance 3-5 Day Intensive Residential Retreaton the LAND with Melinda Harrison of NatureMoves  featuring Life Art Process & RSVP Dance Making Cycles
Led by Melinda Harrison of NatureMoves in Boulder, CO
Assisted by your host Maureen “momo” Freehill, MFA
More info: www.naturemoves.com
SEA LEVEL ~ 3-5 Day WilderDance Residential Retreat @ Butopia on Whidbey Island, WA
August 23-27, 2012
Butopia: Pacific Northwest Center for Embodied Arts in Nature presents master leader & founder of Boulder-based WilderDance & NatureMoves; Melinda Harrison (http://naturemoves.com).n her 20th year of leading WilderDance above 11K feet; this marks her first SEA LEVEL WilderDance Retreat based on Embodied Art principles and practices of her life long mentor/collaborator Anna Halprin including RSVP Cycles of Dance Making in Nature, Daily Movement Rituals and the Life Art Process of Improvisational Performance Scores. We inhabit seaside & forest environments to co-create site specific dance/art works inspired by the ecology of a secluded natural forest sanctuary and beaches on beautiful Whidbey Island, WA. Treat yourself to this sacred time for personal growth, creativity and healing with local Organic meals by chef Carolyn, accommodations, instruction & performance all included.
This retreat is for every BODY~no experience necessary~
Limited to 12 participants~ Filling Quickly…contact us TODAY If you are interested in attending or have any questions.
Facebook Event Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/220862181349514/ or more information, to apply & register TODAY
CONTACT Maureen Freehill at http://butopia.org or 206 855 5836 to discuss our wide variety of donation & work exchange options.
EarlyBird special till August 6.
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