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Get your keiki's creative juices flowing with clay handbuilding...
Go on an ArtSpree
Museum having an open house
Tired of the same old self staring back at you every morning from the bathroom mirror? Need to get out of your rut? You could try a health club, a motivational class ... or butoh?
According to Lori Ohtani of Tangentz, an experimental butoh dance company performing tomorrow at The Contemporary Museum's ArtSpree 2003, the Japanese dance form possesses transformative power.
"Butoh is a deep art form that can affect someone to change, to push forward," she says. "In our training, we work from imagery. It requires performers to go to a deep place within themselves.
"Butoh helped me come out of my shell, to not be so intimidated," Ohtani testifies.
For those less intent on personal overhaul, Tangentz's performance at ArtSpree will offer live sax and cello music paired with dramatic costuming and performances.
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...and silkscreening.
"Those who have never seen butoh before will be able to see something unexpected," Ohtani says. "Hopefully, we'll make them want to see more."
Tangentz is one of a host of groups and performers taking the stage for The Contemporary Museum's annual community open house event. In addition to entertainment, the museum is offering art activities for the whole family, art and dance demonstrations, docent guides in the galleries and a special ArtSpree menu in The Contemporary Café by Hale 'Aina award-winning chef Noreen Lam. Events will also be held at the King Kalakaua Plaza in Waikiki.
The following is a schedule of the day's festivities.
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Performers will also share their talents.
Artists' Demonstrations
and Activities>> Expression Sessions: Artists will lead an hourly art activity for children, watercolor and crayon resist techniques, throughout the day.
>> Glassblowing by Hot Glass Hui
>> Ceramic Handbuilding
>> Freeform baskets
>> Flying Gadgets
>> Wooden Landscape Puzzle Boxes
>> Mixed Media
>> Printmaking
Dance, Music and Performance Artat the museum
>> 10 a.m.: Capoeira Hawaii (Afro-Brazilian martial arts)
>> 10:50: Tangentz (experimental Butoh)
>> 11:10: Magic Mark (interactive magic for kids of all ages)
>> 11:30: Buck Giles and The Essential Resophonics (all kine music), Michael Tannenbaum and Stephen Fox ("guitar tapestries") and musical group Eleven Gallon Hat
>> 12:15 p.m.: Loose Screws (improvisational theater)
>> 12:30: Johnny Helm (acoustic guitar)
>> 1:15: Tangentz
>> 1:35: duPres Legacy ("dramatique theater," or theater of the unique, presenting "One Night in Bangkok")
>> 1:50: The No No Boys (rock, island music and reggae)
>> 2:30: Loose Screws
>> 2:45: Rea Fox (jazz)
at King Kalakaua Plaza
>> 10:45 a.m.: TBA
>> 11:30: HI-Frequency (urban / break dancing)
>> 11:45: Samba Axé (Brazilian dance, music & performance)
>> Noon: Capoeira Hawaii
>> 12:45 p.m.: Samba Axé
>> 1:00: Greg & Junko MacDonald (steel drums / world music)
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