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100 Ways to Kiss the Trees


Denton Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center

100 Ways to Kiss the Trees

a site-specific dance performance

Denton Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center - September 29, 2018,

performances at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Blackland Butoh Lab and Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center are proud to present "100 Ways to Kiss the Trees," a site-specific dance exploring our connection to the land around us. This unique outdoor performance takes place on a newly updated section of land at Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center off of Hartlee Field Road. Admission is free.

Butoh is an avant-garde dance developed in Japan in the late 1950s and 1960s. It features an image-based approach to generating movement, an emphasis on the transformation of the dancer into something else (a tree, an animal, a mythic creature); an intense physicality that may result in explosions of movement across the stage or a strictly contained tension beneath the surface of the skin; and a focus on themes such as death, marginality, and nature. The form is often performed outdoors, in addition to being performed on stages, and has been adapted to many different landscapes all over the world.

“100 Ways to Kiss the Trees” brings dancers and audience members together in Denton’s landscape to remind us all that we are not isolated from our environment and asks us to consider how we exist together in a given area. Part of the performance will take place along the trail, and a second portion will take place in the area off the parking lot. As audience members will be encouraged to walk along a short looped trail during the first half of the performance, audience members are encouraged to wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. For the second half of the performance, benches will be provided for seating, or you may bring your own chair.

The performance is choreographed by Rosemary Candelario, an internationally recognized butoh dancer and scholar, who works as Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University. The dance features Los Angeles-based butoh dancer, Heyward Bracey, whose solo work was recently presented in Kyoto, Japan. Other performers include TWU faculty, alum, and students Tara Baker, Alex Cole, Jessica Gullion, Nico Locke, Eylin Aguilar, Jonathan Pattiwael, Najwa Seyedmorteza, and Eli Webb. Versatile Denton musician West Oxking will provide live accompaniment.

Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center is located at 3310 Collins Rd, Denton, TX 76208. Audience members will follow signs to the parking lot off Hartlee Field Road. The location is indicated on this Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2655261,-97.0603976,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!6m1!1s1ddNVJp179qzdkF0vNLYa4QoChWRkcN4D

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3310 Collins Road · Denton, TX 76208


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