DOUGLAS RIDINGS
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Saturday, Jan 20 › 9pm › $5
GEKIKAI: post-asiatic salon starring BILL HORIST, VANESSA SKANTZE, DOUGLAS RIDIGNS, SHERI BROWN, NOAH MICKENS, IN THE DEEP MUSEUM, and NEQUAQUAM VACUUM.
"Gekikai" is a Japanese term, meaning both "The World of the Theater" and "The Ways of the Barbarian". Thus Gekikai is the name of our post-asiatic salon: a performative cultural space at the interstices of the radical and traditional arts of Asia and the West. Butoh, odissi, raga, jazz, noise—filtered through a post-modernist and distinctly Western perspective.
This installment of Gekikai revisits a long-form improvisation that happened earlier this year in Seattle. Bill Horist, arguably the world's great virtuoso of the prepared guitar, heads up a cast of post-asiatic musicians who interact both physically and sonically with dancers from the P.A.N., Death Posture, and Societas Insomnia.
About the artist
Douglas Ridings began the study of both Butoh and Yoga with Joan Laage in 1993. He performed with her group Dappin Butoh from 1993-1997. He began teaching Yoga in 1999 at 8 limbs in Seattle and in 2000, he completed The Samadhi Yoga Teacher Training with Kathleen Hunt. He currently teaches at both 8 Limbs and Samadhi. In 2001, he met Butoh Master Katsura Kan, and has since then had the privelage of extensive private study with him and has performed with his group Saltambiques in Seattle, San Francisco and Madrid. From 1999-2006 he has performed with P.A.N. and The Samadhi Yoginis. He is currently a student of Dr. Ratna Roy and Frank Petty in Oddissi, a classical form of Indian dance of Tantrik origin. In April 2006, he performed with Urvassi, Dr. Roy’s company, at the Evergreen State College in Olympia WA.
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