Joan Laage

Joan Laage – tancerka, pedagog, choreograf. Posiada certyfikat Analizy Ruchu Labana i podstaw Bartenieffa. Doświadczenie zdobywała na Florida Dance Festiwal, w Instytucie Labana i Bartenieffa w Nowym Jorku. Asystowała w programie Integrated Movement Studies w Seattle. Studiowała w mistrzowskiej klasie Butoh Kazuo Ohno.W 1991 roku założyła grupę Dappin Butoh, której spektakle zwiedziły cały świat. Postać Joan Laage przedstawiona jest w książce Sondry Raleigh ,,Tańcząc w stronę mroku”.

Joan Laage studied under Butoh masters Ohno Kazuo and Ashikawa Yoko, and performed with Ashikawa’s group Gnome while living in Tokyo in the late 1980s. She also attended workshops by Min Tanaka, Sankai Juku, Akira Kasai, Harupin Ha, Masaki Iwana, and others. She was Artistic Director of Dappin’ Butoh in Seattle, Washington from 1991 to 2002. Since then, as a soloist and with her company, Joan has performed widely in the USA including the New York, San Francisco and Seattle Butoh Festivals, as well as in Europe, New Zealand, and in Asia. She is featured in Sondra Horton Fraleigh’s book, Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh Zen & Japan.
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