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Community Butoh Class
Sundays 4-6 pm
Studio Valencia
455A Valencia St., San Francisco (@ 16th)
$25 (notaflof)
upcoming 2024
APRIL
Micromovements in Dance and Language workshop
Sunday April 7, 1:30-3:30pm
Shawl Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley
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Community Butoh Class with Megan Nicely & Shoshana Green
Sunday April 14, 4-6pm
Studio Valencia, San Francisco
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MAY
humXn forms performance
Megan Nicely/Dance with Shoshana Green and Kevin Corcoran
Saturday May 11, 8pm
Sunday May 12, 7 pm
Studio 210, San Francisco
Part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival
Info/Tickets
JUNE
“Potential and Contingent Bodies: Assembling/Disassembling Knowledges” (workshop presentation)
Megan Nicely & Michelle LaVigne
June 20-23
Performance Studies international conference, London
past
2020
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
TIME OF YOUR LIFE
Megan Nicely & Collaborators
September 19-October 20
Neighborhood Stories
Oakland, CA
Press: Moments that Defined Theater in 2020
2019
MARCH
Shifting Time
Megan Nicely with Karlovsky & Company Dance
March 29-30, 8:00pm
The Grandel Theatre
St. Louis, MO
JUNE
Shifting Time
Megan Nicely with Karlovsky & Company Dance
June 28-29, 8:00pm
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
2704 Alcatraz Ave @ College Ave
Berkeley, CA
Tickets $20: https://shiftingtime.eventbrite.com
(Note: seating limited to 50/night)
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JULY
“Feeling the Stretch: Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language” (paper)
July 4-7
PSi conference #25: Elasticity
Calgary, Canada
august
“A Gathering of/for Butoh Commons” (panel)
August 8-11
DSA Annual Conference: “Dancing in Common”
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2018
MAY
Zero Conditional: butoh solos for the 21st century
Molly Barrons, Shoshana Green, Megan Nicely, Paige Sorvillo
May 25-26, 8:00pm
Theatre of Yugen
2840 Mariposa St.
San Francisco, CA
Tickets $20: http://zeroconditional.eventbrite.com
JUNE
Butoh Somatics Workshop + Performance
BodyMind Centering Conference
June 5-10
Northampton, MA
JULY
“Embodied Communication” (workshop)
July 22-26
International Colloquium on Communication
Marburg, Germany
2017
APRIL
Stanford New Ensemble: Strange Attractors
April 28, 7:30pm
Black Community Services Center
Stanford University Campus
Palo Alto, CA
MAY
Performance with Deborah Karp Dance Projects
May 24
Sacramento, CA
Outside the Box: in Memory of Trisha Brown
May 27, 8pm; May 28, 5pm
20th Annual Dionysian Festival
Many Sano School of Duncan Dance
San Francisco, CA
JUNE
“Transmitting Problems: Choreography and Pedagogic Legacy” (paper)
June 8-11
Performance in Historical Paradigms
PSi conference #23: Overflow
Hamburg, Germany
september
“Bodies Moving Thinking: A Workshop on Embodiment” (workshop)
PACT West Coast Conference “The Body”
September 29
San Francisco, CA
2016
MARCH
SALTA + AUNTS = BAMPFA
March 25
Deborah Karp Dance Projects (performer)
Berkeley Art Museum and pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, CA
APRIL
The Lost Ones
durational embroidery (performer/collaborator w/Liz Harvey Studio)
De Young Museum
San Francisco, CA
MAY
Familiar
May 28-29
collaboration with Erick Scheid (sound)
Dionysian Festival
Many Sano’s School of Duncan Dance
San Francisco, CA
JUNE
“Butoh Somatics” (workshop) and “Butoh Somatics: Performances of Bodily Undoing” (performance/workshop)
June 17-19
BMCA Conference
Montreal, Canada
JULY
Animal/Animus
Jul. 22, 5-10 pm
New Urban Naturalists (performer)
Montalvo Art Center Pop Up Arts Festival
Saratoga, CA
Cotati Artist Residency
July 24-31
Breath Catalogue at MilkBar #41
Jul. 30, 7:30 pm
Site Specific Performance
Cotati, CA
NOVEMBER
“Whose Butoh? Challenging Pedagogies of the Authentic” (panel)
Nov. 3-6
SDHS/CORD Conference
Pomona, CA
Breath Catalogue
Nov. 17-19
w/ choreographer Kate Elswit, interaction designer Ben Gimpert,
composer/musicians Daniel Thomas Davis and Stephanie Griffin
Feel It Festival
Circomedia, Bristol, UK
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/blackwell/public-engagement/feel-it/
Info/Blog: www.breathcatalogue.org
2015
NOVEMBER
Breath Catalogue curio
“Rewriting Dance” — Hope Mohr Bridge Project
Nov. 8, 7 pm
Joe Goode Annex
San Francisco, CA
OCTOBER
The Lost Ones
performer/collaborator w/Liz Harvey Studio
Oct. 25
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
AUGUST
“Critical Corporeality: Akira Kasai’s Butoh Practice as Social Action” (paper)
PSi conference, Aomori, Japan
JULY
Breath Catalogue (concert)
A cabinet of breath curiosities: contemporary choreography meets medical technology
July 16-17, 8 pm
w/ choreographer Kate Elswit, interaction designer Ben Gimpert,
composer/musicians Daniel Thomas Davis and Stephanie Griffin
Fort Mason Center Firehouse
2 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, CA
Info/Blog: www.breathcatalogue.org
APRIL
“Animating Thinking” (presentation/workshop w/Kate Elswit)
Performance Philosophy conference, Chicago, IL
2014
NOVEMBER
“Choreographic Thinking as Writing: A Mover’s Perspective” (paper)
CORD/SDHS joint conference, Iowa City, IA
OCTOBER
Contemporary Practices Workshop (teacher)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
september
Fragile (collaboration with Shoshana Greene)
Bare Bones Butoh Showcase
Studio 210, San Francisco, CA
APRIL
Dance Discourse Project #18: Choreographic Thinking (moderator)
Apr 3, 7:30 pm
CounterPULSE
1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
50 Cent Tabernacle: Inspiring the Contemporary (teacher)
Apr 5, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm (my class is 2-3 pm)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
3rd Street bet Mission and Howard Streets, San Francisco, CA
Enlightened Spaces: Urban Choreography: Connecting People to Place through Unexpected Experiences of Bodies in Motion
(presenter)
Apr 10, 5:15 pm
Gensler Architecture
2 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA
SCUBA pre-show talk on performing arts and social justice (speaker)
Apr 20, 7:00 pm
ODC Dance Commons
San Francisco, CA
MARCH
SALTA’s Judson Church City Limits: an evening of task (performer)
Mar 18, 8:00 pm
City Limits Gallery
300 Jefferson Street, Oakland, CA
FEBRUARY
center for humanature (with Sasha Petrenko)
Feb. 1, 4-7 pm
Field of Inquiry: Body Politic Edition
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
710 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Somatic Experiment #1: Scrunch (with Jim Brashear)
Feb. 7, 8 pm
Ebb + Flow
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA
Sonic Body Series #5 (with Jim Brashear and Deborah Karp)
Feb. 23, 8 pm
The Garage
715 Bryant, San Francisco, CA
2013
DECEMBER
Art and Life (by Deborah Hay)
Dec. 13, 7:30 pm
NOHspace
2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA
NOVEMBER
“Language and Rebound in Avant-Garde Dance” (paper)
CORD/SDHS joint conference, Riverside, CA
SEPTEMBER
Under Her Breath (concert)
Sept. 27-28, 8 pm
KUNST-STOFF arts
1 Grove Street @ Market, San Francisco, CA
august
Small Acts of Courage (performance)
Bare Bones Butoh #26, San Francisco, CA
Showing of Aperture, Breath
Milkbar, Oakland, CA
june
Tidal (performance with DANCE EXLIXIR and Tiberius)
KUNST-STOFF arts, San Francisco, CA
“Temporal Pedagogies: Dance Practices of the Already and Not-Yet” (paper)
Performance Studies international #19, Stanford University
“Time Actions” (praxis session with Katherine Mezur)
Performance Studies international #19, Stanford University
april
“Choreography as Future Writing” (paper)
Congress on Research in Dance conference, UCLA
february
By the Throat (performance)
White Wave Dance Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2012
december
Art and Life (performance)
Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, CA
Homegrown
Bare Bones Butoh #25, San Francisco, CA
november
By the Throat (performance)
Milkbar, Oakland, CA
Small Acts of Courage (performed by the USF Dance Ensemble)
University of San Francisco Studio Theater, San Francisco, CA
september
Bloodroot (performance collaboration with Anastacia Kaser)
Art in Nature Festival, Oakland, CA
Surface Tension (performance)
Salon hosted by Deborah Karp, Berkeley, CA
August
“Hagoromo-kiri” pre-performance with Theatre Nohgaku Noh Training Project
Bloomsburg, PA
july
The Grand Re-Map (performance with Leyya Tawil/DANCE ELIXIR)
Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, CA
june
The Animation Project (workshop with artist/scholar Kate Elswit)
Performance Studies international #18, Leeds, UK
“Performing Cultures of Rebellion and their ‘Economies’ of Spectacle: A Butoh Practice Shift”
(workshop with scholar Katherine Mezur)
Performance Studies international #18, Leeds, UK
“Akira Kasai’s ‘Voice Power’: Pre-articulating the Social Body” (paper),
Co-Convener of panel “Butoh ‘Scapes and Urban Corporealities”
Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
march
Closer (performance with Dawn Karlovsky)
MOCA, St. Louis, MO