Seattle Butoh Festival 2022
$25 ($20 student/ages 60+)
- Leanna Keith, flute, voice, & beatboxing
- Stephanie Wood, electronics
- Christopher Arnett, electric piano
- Scott Adams, guitar & accordion
- Monica Schley, harp
- Rosalynn De Roos, clarinet
- Ken Jacobsen, bass guitar
- Kai Strandskov, drums
DAIPANbutoh Collective presents the Seattle Butoh Festival 2022: Emergence on November 18 and 19 at eXit SPACE/NOD Theater on Capitol Hill. DAIPAN is pleased to return to the former Velocity venue where the collective held two well-received festivals years ago.
Saturday Program – November 19 @ 8pm:
ALYCIA SCOTT ZOLLINGER – FLA TIGRE
Set In a cosmic musical landscape, Alycia Scott Zollinger's Fla Tigre seeks to liberate body-minds through fierce hybridity in loving motion. Melia Dodge and Hana Shiozaki join her with live music by Leanna Keith and Stephanie Wood and a set designed by Melia.
ROBYN BJORNSON – IN OUR SHOES
Robyn Bjornson's new solo In our shoes is an exploration of finding the archetypes that live inside humanity. Christopher Arnett will perform his composition created especially for this piece on electric piano.
SHERI BROWN & DHYANA GARCIA – THE LAST POTATO
Sheri Brown and Dhyana Garcia team up with Nando Rocha in Sacrament and Gluttony: The Last Potato, a humorous piece with: Scott Adams (guitar & accordion), Monica Schley (harp), Rosalynn De Roos (clarinet), Ken Jacobson (bass), Kai Strandskov (drums), and costumes by Jô de Oliveira.
About Leanna Keith, flute, voice, & beatboxing
A freelance flutist, artist, improviser, and composer in the Seattle area, Leanna Keith (she/they) delights in creating sound experiences that make audiences laugh, cry, and say: "I didn't know the flute could do that!" Her performance artworks have focused on cultural connection and the breaking of audience/performer boundaries. Leanna is co-founder of the 501(c)(3) arts organization Kin of the Moon and is co-artistic director and flutist of the ensemble. They explore sonic rituals, promote cross-pollination of genres, and celebrate the creativity that multiplies itself through the collaboration of performers and composers. She is dedicated to playing music by composers who are still living, and advocates for the usage of music as social activism. Leanna is the professor of flute at Cornish College of the Arts.
http://leannakeithflute.comAbout Stephanie Wood, electronics
Stephanie Wood is a sound artist/sound practitioner, composer, and healing justice activist with eclectic works from ambient to noise. Stephanie uses a variety of tuned metal, DIY instruments, FX-processing, and field recordings.
Stephanie incorporates silence, existing soundscape, and creates collective experiential features into her work. Along with love for drone, soundtracks and Foley arts, her greatest desire is to support collective deep listening and more visibly interlace sound theology and contemporary experimental music. Having a "wall of gongs", she has studied under Mitch Nur/9ways Academia, Mike Tamburo, Thomas Orr Anderson, and Sada Simran.
Along with sound art, she also holds sound sessions that include ceremonial sound objects to support harmony, healing, and deepened spiritual connection within the realm of trauma and grief recovery. Stephanie orchestrated Guru Gayatri's 16-musician equinox/solstice sound immersion events and holds various sound-centered ceremonial and altar-building events. As an educator, she's taught workshops on group composition and improvisation with gongs and DIY/FX.
In Colorado, Stephanie was a percussionist in Denver's Itchy-O, opening for David Byrne & St. Vincent, DEVO, the Melvins, and Beats Antique, among others. More recent collaborations have included co-hosting Taoist Studies Institute’s NO CONCERT experimental concert series, creating sound sculptures with artist Sarah Lavin Fansler and taught experimental gong coursework with Mike Tamburo. Collaborators have also included Kurt Baur of Animal Object, Steve Gordon, Jim Knodle, Leanna Keith, Christopher Arnett, Ivan Espinosa, and Butoh Daipan.