Body Weather is kinesthetic and movement research initiated by butoh dancer/farmer Min Tanaka and members of his company Mai Juku, further developed independently by exponents worldwide. It proposes and generates questions about the body and vigilance towards its immediate, ever-shifting internal and external states. Working with direct senses, imagery and varied interventions towards the ceaseless porosity between flesh, bone, imagination and space to yield impossible and/or newfound bodies.

Together, we will challenge physical limits, scale and timing, evoking sense memory and re-examine the body as a dynamic, transformative environment. Bring exigence and your inquisitive body.

Dates: October 4-6, 6pm-10pm

Price: $140 full course / $52 single class

Sherwood Chen has worked as a performer with artists including Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Xavier Le Roy, l'agence touriste, inkBoat, Ko Murobushi, Liz Santoro, Grisha Coleman, Arcane Collective and Sara Shelton Mann. Sherwood has worked with Body Weather Laboratory training, initiated by Tanaka, since 1993, and was a resident member of Tanaka's international performance collective Mai Juku in rural Japan. He has facilitated Body Weather Laboratory and continues to develop and share Simultaneous Translations movement training and research internationally.