Butoh Ritual Mexicano Workshop with
DIEGO PINON
November 7-11, 2007
4-hr. class: Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 6-10PM* (special for new students only!).
$35 paid in full by 11/1. $50 after 11/1.
4-hr. class: Thursday, Nov. 8th, 6-10PM.
$50 paid in full by 11/1. $65 after 11/1.
20 hr., 3-day workshop: Fri., Nov. 9th 6-10PM/ Sat., Nov. 10th 10AM-6PM/ Sun., Nov. 11th 10AM-6PM.
$200 paid in full by 11/1. $225 after 11/1.
50% non-refundable deposit holds your spot. Space is limited.
Contact Nicole: 773/387-8418, info@blushingpoppy.orgDiego Pinon offers an integrated approach to the life-art process through Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance. In his unique style of teaching, Pinon incorporates more than 25 years of experience in Mexican energetic traditions, Japanese Butoh, ritual dance, modern dance and contemporary theatre. He has developed techniques that stimulate, expand and recapture energy from the body through the senses. He engages perception, imagination and creativity to support the expression of each individual’s experiences through dance. Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance is both emotionally intense and physically challenging. The body is used to awaken greater sensitivity and vital energy in order to transform limitations we normally perceive in ourselves. This boundless experience propels us into new places and expands the body’s capacity to be, to feel, and to dance. diegopinon.com, blushingpoppy.org.
The Spareroom, 4100 W. Grand Avenue. On the Grand, Pulaski, and North Avenue bus lines.
RED ROVER
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #17: Silent Teaching
A Tribute to Hannah Wiener
7pm Saturday, November 17
Doors lock at 7:30pm
suggested donation $3
wheelchair accessible with assistanceat the Spareroom, 4100 W. Grand Avenue
NEW LOCATION close to Grand & Pulaski
in the American Stencil Company building
2nd floor, suite 210-212
Featuring:
Mark Booth • Maria Damon • Patrick Durgin • Judith Goldman
Roberto Harrison • Todd Mattei • Jenny Roberts
Jennifer Scappettone • Timothy Yu
MARK BOOTH has exhibited his visual art at Tony Wright/Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago; Chicago Cultural Center; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL; Devening Editions, Chicago; and other venues. Selected audio artworks have been presented at the Overgaden Sound Art Festival, Copenhagen; Openport Festival, Chicago; Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago; Nova art fair, Chicago; and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound, Chicago. In addition, Booth has completed commissioned audio scores for Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak's "My Name is a Blackbird," Chicago, and Erik Pold's "Success", Copenhagen. Next fall, Booth will have a solo show at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. He currently teaches creative writing, painting, and sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
MARIA DAMON teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry, co-author (with mIEKAL aND) of several books of poetry and online poetic works, and co-editor (with Ira Livingston) of the forthcoming anthology Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader. She has published numerous essays on poetry and poetics, including one on Hannah Weiner.
PATRICK DURGIN's most recent publications include a chapbook of poetry (Imitation Poems) and contributions to Bay Poetics and Chicago Review. Very shortly forthcoming are essays in Aerial and The Journal of Literary Disability, poetry in Abraham Lincoln, as well as The Route, a collaborative hybrid-genre book written with Jen Hofer. By day, he teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and by night maintains http://www.da-crouton.com. He edited the recent selected works of Hannah Weiner (Hannah Weiner’s Open House) for Kenning Editions (http://www.kenningeditions.com), as well as Weiner’s Early and Clairvoyant Journals for the UC San Diego's Archive of New Poetry.
JUDITH GOLDMAN is the author of Vocoder (Roof 2001) and Deathstar/Rico-chet (O Books 2006). She was a coeditor, with Jocelyn Saidenberg and Kevin Killian, of Krupskaya for two years and currently coedits the annual anthology War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino. Her article "Hannah = hannaH: Politics, Ethics, and Clairvoyance in the work of Hannah Weiner" appeared in differences in 2001, while a review of Hannah Weiner's Open House is forthcoming in Crayon. She teaches in the core humanities program at University of Chicago.
ROBERTO HARRISON edits Crayon with Andrew Levy and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. He also hosts the Enemy Rumor reading series. His most recent books include Counter Daemons (Litmus Press), Os (subpress) and Elemental Song (Answer Tag Home Press), all published in 2006. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
TODD MATTEI is an artist and musician living in Chicago. His work has been exhibited, screened, heard, or performed all over. He believes we must foster new perceptions of possibility, always available, and recycle both the wheat and the chaff circuits according to their most useful energy. Visit
http://www.toddmattei.com for images and information.
JENNY ROBERTS is a visual artist with roots in writing (poetry). In 2003, Jenny Roberts received an MFA from the University of Chicago. Roberts co-taught a seminar on conceptual art for adults at the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2005 and has presented her work as a visiting artist at the School of the Art
Institute and Columbia College in Chicago as well as at a conference on camouflage at the University of Northern Iowa. She has had shows at LIPA Gallery, Lobby Gallery, the Hyde Park Art Center and other venues around Chicago.
JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE’s first book of poems, From Dame Quickly, will be out next year from Litmus Press. Several chapbooks were printed in 2007, including Err-Residence (Bronze Skull) and Beauty [Is the New Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv). She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Chicago.
TIMOTHY YU is the author of Journey to the West, which won the Vincent Chin Chapbook Prize from Kundiman and appeared in Barrow Street. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in SHAMPOO, Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Avenue Poetry, and the anthology The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab). He lives in Chicago and in Toronto, where he teaches at the University of Toronto, and can occasionally be
found at http://tympan.blogspot.com.
Red Rover Series is curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin. Founded in 2005, each Red Rover event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers.
Coming in 2008
Kate Greenstreet and Jen Tynes
Miranda Mellis and Sarah Rosenthal
Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com. The schedule for upcoming events is listed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redroverseries.
