Joan Laage

ETS explores questions: What is the human condition? What is the body? How can we experience infinity in the body? We will concentrate on the marriage of mind, body, and image within Butoh aesthetics beginning with recalling the consciousness of our cellular body and our primal roots. ETS is based on Joan’s Butoh training, her Laban/Bartenieff, Tai Chi, and Yoga background, and observances of nature. The training involves vigorous warm-ups, breath and energy exercises, exploration of the body as a fetus with developmental patterning, and primarily nature imagery. Through continual transformation we move from chaos to form.