UNFIX NYC 2024
-Creating An Awareness Of Ecology Through Arts- Fri.-Sat. May 17-18, 2024
(Fri. 5/17: Butoh Workshop, Sat. 5/18: Live Performance, Art Gallery, Film Showing & Panel Discussion) At Grace & St. Paul's Church, NYC
This is the 8th Season of UNFIX NYC!!! We are so delighted to be able to gather together to have this festival again IN - PERSON!
About: UNFIX NYC is a collaboration between RenGyoSoh (NY based Butoh Theatre Group) and the UNFIX festival (Scotland). It is an interdisciplinary festival including live performance, dance, film, music, installation, workshop, and debate that aims to unravel the knots in how we're living. RenGyoSoh has been holding the NYC version of the UNFIX festival since 2016 at Grace & St. Paul’s Church.
UNFIX NYC aims to raise ecological awareness through arts and to address Ecological crisis and renewal through our Bodies, Minds & Souls. What is 'ecology'? Ecology is the study of all living beings on this planet and their relationships with each other and with the physical environment. In this festival, we broaden the definition of ecology to include how we can live embedded within ecological systems in a way that supports those systems, ourselves and each other. The world is not a 'fix'ed place. The world is continuously changing as we are changing; we are all living, dynamic beings. We believe in the power of active, engaged care; in the power of art; and in what art can do for all living beings, for the land we live in and for future generations.
The theme this year is "Disturbance." Disruptions to our social and ecological systems can have profound effects, from the catastrophic to the regenerative. The evening’s events will open the questions: How have disturbances affected our lives and our relationships with our communities and the natural environment? Can we be sensitive to disturbance and also resilient in response?
Through this festival, UNFIX NYC reflects on the society we live in, and creates not only awareness but builds a community to share, to connect, and to inspire each other. This year, we have 16 pieces created by many fantastic artists!
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TICKET
Sale starts on April 3rd Live Performance
$20-30 EARLY BIRD $18- Combine Tickets: Performance & Workshop $30-50 Butoh Workshop
$20-25 Zelle payment is available:
RenGyoSoh@gmail.com please put a note: UNFIX NYC2024 Note: Partial of the box office goes to nonprofit ecological organizations, and crisis areas. We will report back on this page.
DATE
Fri.May17: Butoh Workshop 6-8pm Sat.May18: Live Performance 5:15-10:30pm (door open at 5pm) VENUE Grace & St. Paul's Church 123 west 71st st., New York |
UNFIX NYC 2024 PROGRAM
Friday, May 17, 6-8pm
Radical Resonance, A Workshop In Butoh Dance
Guided By Julie Becton Gillum
Guided By Julie Becton Gillum
During the workshop, participants will investigate the possibilities of their bodies in their natural form, including floating, hanging, and various qualities of movement or stillness. As the exercises progress, customary societal and cultural behaviors will be removed, guiding dancers toward a state of bodily emptiness. At this point, without the constraints of old habits, the unconscious body can freely respond to its sensations, forces, and emotions. Dancers will be instructed to expand their range of movements to include the subtle body, the avant-garde body, the fading body, and the unleashed body.
Photographed by Brianna Jones
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Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of the 14-year-running Asheville Butoh Festival, has been creating, performing, and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico for over 40 years. She has practiced butoh for 27 years and was awarded the 2008-09 North Carolina Choreography Fellowship She used the funds to travel to Japan to study Butoh. The Asheville Butoh Festival brings US and international artists to teach and perform at the BeBe Theater in downtown Asheville. This event has drawn a local and regional audience for butoh as well as international recognition and interest. Since 2019 Gillum has been active in India, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Mexico, and the USA. Recent performances at the Amsterdam Butoh Festival (October 2023) and Seattle Butoh Festival (November 2023) were well received. Her most influential mentors have been: Anzu Furukawa, Diego Piñon, Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, and Seasaku. Noguchi Taiso has become an equally important practice for Gillum who learned the basics from Itto Morita, Semimaru, and Dairakudakan. Gillum’s studies with Mari Osanai and Emre Thormann have further refined the practice. She has been guiding butoh for 25 years and Noguchi Taiso for 10 years.
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Saturday, May 18th, 5:15-10:30pm
Arts Gallery, Live Performances, Film Showing & Panel Discussion
"DISTURBANCE"
5:15pm_Opening Performance / Door Opens
5:30pm_Opening Ceremony 5:40pm_ACT 1, Part I / Door Closes 6:10pm_ACT 1, Part II 6:45pm_Break / Door Opens 7:00pm_Panel Discussion 7:45pm_Film Showing / Door Closes 8:00pm_Break / Performance Art / Door Opens 8:20pm_ACT 2 / Door Closes 9:00pm_Break / Door Opens 9:15pm_ACT 3 / Door Closes 10:15pm_Closing Ceremony / Door Opens 10:20pm_Celebration NOTE: Door will be closed during ACT (Live performances). Sounds carry entire space, and when you open the door not only light comes into the space, but the sounds as well.
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Arts Gallery
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OPENING PERFORMANCE
5:15-5:30pm
5:15-5:30pm
STOPBOTHERINGME! LEAVEMEALONE! BACKOFF! By Zhenya Sklar, madeline at neighbors, Irena Romendik, and Yuri Osagawara |
OPENING CEREMONY
5:35-5:40pm
ACT 1, Part I_5:40-6:05pm
Les Berceaux & The Lighthouse: Movement 1-A Mental Health Crisis
By InterArt |
ACT 1, Part II_6:10-6:45pm
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Wild Butterfly
By Alana Rosa |
BREAK 6:45-7:00pm
Panel Discussion_7:00-7:45pm
(TBA)
Moderated By Megan Cattau
(Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Systems at Boise State University,
Co-founder & Co-director at Flight Collaborative Aerial Dance)
PANELISTS:
(TBA)
Moderated By Megan Cattau
(Assistant Professor of Human-Environment Systems at Boise State University,
Co-founder & Co-director at Flight Collaborative Aerial Dance)
PANELISTS:
(TBA)
Film Showing_7:45-8:00pm
“The King's Keeper”
By Thomas Rowell/Brother Mountain
By Thomas Rowell/Brother Mountain
In the King’s Keeper we meet Gajraj and Prahlad on their journey home. Gajraj, a seventy year old tusker whose name means “King of the elephants,” spent more than fifty years of his life in chains. When Prahlad first saw him come out of the rescue vehicle and step into the Elephant Conservation and Care Center he says “I had my heart set on him.”
Created by Thomas Rowell
Original Score by Steve Gorn - Camila Celin - Ehren Hanson Recording Engineer & Sound Design Charles Van Kirk Music Director Andrew Wells Ryder |
Break 8:00-8:20pm
Performing Arts by Stacey Anne Pea (xi/dry)
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ACT 2_8:20-9:00pm
Break 9:00 - 9:15pm
ACT 3_9:15-10:15pm
"broken limbs and broken roots"
by Jacquelyn Marie Shannon |
“塵 (Chiri) / Dust"
by RenGyoSoh |
"Dusk, the darkening"
By Julie Becton Gillum / Asheville Butoh Collective |
TEAM in UNFIX NYC 2024
Yoshiko Usami, Producing Artistic director
Megan Cattau, Co-productiong Artistic director
Saki Kawamura, Program Director
Chase Kniffen, Technical Director
Brandon Perdomo, Visual Arts Coordinator
TBD Assistant Program Director
Paul Michael Henry (Associate Producer, Founder of Unfix festival)
Jonah Piali, Associate producer (host)
Pastor Martin Hauser, Associate producer (host)
Yoshiko Usami, Producing Artistic director
Megan Cattau, Co-productiong Artistic director
Saki Kawamura, Program Director
Chase Kniffen, Technical Director
Brandon Perdomo, Visual Arts Coordinator
TBD Assistant Program Director
Paul Michael Henry (Associate Producer, Founder of Unfix festival)
Jonah Piali, Associate producer (host)
Pastor Martin Hauser, Associate producer (host)