Published: October 16th, 2008 04:16 AM
Last Modified: October 16th, 2008 04:16 AM
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DANCE
Butoh workshop
Some dancers say it helps to forget classical training when doing butoh dance, a form of performance art with it origins in post World War II Japan. The contemporary dance form emphasizes a connection between the dancer and the earth, vulnerability and strength.
Butoh often incorporates grotesque or playful movements and contains elements of meditation and martial arts. It requires no dance training or experience to learn or try, making this weekend's butoh workshop a truly inclusive event.
Marianne Kim will conduct the workshop from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday in the UAA Dance Studio in the Professional Studies Building near Lake Otis Parkway and Providence Drive. The cost is $10 at the venue.
-- Dawnell Smith
VISUAL ART
Give and take and madness
Joe Hamilton addresses the balancing act of give and take, need and greed, in a show of five large plywood mosaic panels created from found and shaped objects ranging from action figures and fish platters to painted wood squares and driftwood.
Using circles to represent the idea of giving (i.e., the sun, the planet, raindrops, the cycle of life) and squares to represent taking (TV screens, box stores, road grids, so on), Hamilton deals in issues of visual, cultural and social balance. The proportional concept of the Golden Mean only furthers this idea.
Hamilton, who built the crazy wood mosaic on the exterior of Chilkoot Charlie's, considers the show at Grant Hall Gallery at APU his best.
"Everything from the content to the philosophy behind it was planned," he said. "I think I can take these pieces and do a museum show on them."
"Seward Folies," an exhibit of pastels on paper by KN Goodrich, appears next door at the Carr Gottstein Gallery. Goodrich was born in Seward but never lived there.
"I do not belong where I came from, and I cannot fit in where I want to be," Goodrich wrote in her artist statement.
Both shows continue until Oct. 31.
-- Dawnell Smith
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