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“Dancing Out Your Colors” by Geo Koryu

This is a highly interactive performance that involves audience participation.

Audience members will be invited to revisit their past trauma or current struggles,

and transmute them through their active participation in artistic activities.

This is a highly interactive performance that involves audience participation.

Audience members will be invited to revisit their past trauma or current struggles

and transmute them through their active participation in artistic activities.

There will be also an active involvement of the performer’s body to represent the

embodiment of people’s life struggles. This is a new exploration of relational

aesthetics for the purpose of healing and it combines the elements of workshop -

style audience-interaction and traditional body art. It is my belief that relational

aesthetics should be informed by the intention of bringing positive transformation

among the audience members, and this is my experimentation on how such a

healing intent can be merged with a more conventional style of body-centered performance art.

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Geo Koryu is an interpretive dancer/performance artist who is a native of

Japan. He studied Butoh (Japanese avant-garde dance) with Moe

Yamamoto, Toru Iwashita, Kunisuke Kamiryo, Yoshito Ohno (son of Kazuo

Ohno), Yukio Waguri, Seisaku & Yuri, Ko Muroboshi, and Kayo Mikami; a

Butoh-inspired interpretive dance with Akira Kasai; Japanese sword dance

with Kensei Namiki; traditional style swordsmanship with Ken Morita;

Ballet at various dance schools including Morgantown Dance Studio,

Modern Dance with Bill Evans, Kista Tucker, Don Halquis, Angela Dennis,

Kristina Isabella, and Pilobolous Dance Company; Jazz Dance with Liz

Rossi; Contact Improvisation with Jordan Fuchs and Contact

Improvisation groups in Philladelphia; Break Dance at Harajuku Dance

Academy; Central Asian Dance, Persian Dance, and Middle Eastern Dance

with Narah Bint Durr; and West African Dance with Jonathan Burbank and

Michael Vercelli. He was also trained in Mime, Laban Movements Analysis

(Bill Evans and Kista Tucker), Bartenieff Fundamental (Bill Evans and Don

Halquis), Alexander Technique (Suzanne Oliiver), Qigong, Tai Chi, and

various other forms of martial arts. He has integrated the essences of all the

movement-arts he has learned and performs originally choreographed

interpretive dance repertories as well as dance-based performance art.

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Bonfire Lighting 9:00 pm

Performances at the forest/lake 9:30 - 10:30 pm

+ pre-performance wood-fired pizza 7:00-9:00 pm

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