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SideStream Studio Presents
Radical Resonance a Workshop in Butoh Dance

During the workshops, participants will explore movement and stillness by investigating the body's natural anatomical potential, including floating, hanging, and using strings. Exercises from Noguchi Taiso water body practice and aspects of butoh will help remove customary societal and cultural behaviors, guiding dancers toward bodily emptiness. Without the constraints of old habits, the unconscious body can respond freely to sensations, forces, and emotional states, becoming a fully expressive body. Dancers will be instructed in lessons to expand their range of movements, including subtle, unrestrained, fading, animal, and revolutionary styles.

To register EMAIL jbgutoh@gmail.com

BIO FOR JULIE

Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of the 14-year-running Asheville Butoh Festival, has been creating, performing, and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico for over 40 years. She has practiced butoh for 27 years. Gillum was awarded the 2008-09 North Carolina Choreography Fellowship and used the funds to travel to Japan to study Butoh. 

Julie has recently returned from training and performing in Japan with butoh masters Katsura Kan, Saga Kobayashi, Moe Yamamoto, Mari Osanai, Seisaku, and Yuri Nagaoka. Julie performed her own choreography as well as that of the butoh masters. On February 18, she performed with Katsura Kan at a festival in Kyoto at the URBANGUILD; March 30, Julie performed with Moe Yamamoto in Kanazawa, Japan. On April 19 she performed at the Aomori Cultural Arts Center and Chuo Simin Cultural Center in Aomori Japan with Mari Osanai. 

Since 2019, Gillum has been active in India, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Mexico, and the USA. Recent performances at the Amsterdam Butoh Festival (October 2023), Seattle Butoh Festival (November 2023), NYU Abu Dhabi Art Museum (February 2024), UNFIX Festival in NYC (May 2024) were well received. 

Julie’s most influential mentors in butoh have been: Anzu Furukawa, Diego Piñon, Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, and Seisaku. Noguchi Taiso has become equally important for Gillum whose studies with Mari Osanai and Emre Thormann have refined her practice. She has guided butoh for 25 years and Noguchi Taiso for 10 years. 

Here are the links to videos:

Dusk - (Seattle Butoh Festival 2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQbisLrX7s

Holes in Clay (excerpt) - Art Museum, NYU AbuDhabi (2024) 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EyE2NaVe_lc


Sever -  Chiapas, Mexico (2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRqieX5mxGg

PHOTOS by Briana Jones

Future Funk & City Pop Dance Party
Jun
17

Future Funk & City Pop Dance Party

Join us at SideStream Studio on Saturday, June 17 for our Future Funk & City Pop dance party! But wait, isn’t it also an anime party? YES! How? What are Future Funk and City Pop, anyway? The short answer is “some of the best dance music on earth.”

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Movement Arts Showcase
Mar
11

Movement Arts Showcase

SideStream Studio Presents a Night of Dance and Connection

Brattleboro, VT – SideStream Studio is producing a dance performance with local choreographers and dancers focusing on the theme of connection and disconnection. The show, entitled “Connecting through Disconnection,” will take place Saturday, March 11 th , at 7pm - followed by refreshments and a lively conversation about the power of art society.

These dance pieces will investigate the human need for connection not only to each other, butto the planet, to the universe, and to the spiritual realm. The medicine of connection is thesalve that heals the wounds created by a divisive society. When we feel separated from others, it is easier to judge, condemn, shame. When we connect through empathy, compassion, conversation, understanding, we then stand in the beauty of the collective consciousness. Yet to know what it is to be truly connected; we also must embrace the silhouette of disconnection.

All things are also their opposite. Disconnection is entwined with journey of the ego. The need to feel like a separate individual is a crucial part of our human experience that is worthy of generous exploration.

SideStream studio is creative arts venue designed to provide a space to rediscover your wild side. They are committed to bringing a vibe that facilitates an energy of authentic expression and the freedom to be your radical self. Co-owners Toni Nagy and Leanne Horvath are passionate about forming an atmosphere that challenges convention, embraces creativity, dances with shadows, and plays in the mud of genuine joy.

Come support your local community of dancers and choreographers. It will be a night of

organic, fair trade, local, biodynamic, homegrown Vermont artistic expression. Tickets are $15

and can be purchased at www.sidestreamstudio.com

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February Gong Bath
Feb
19

February Gong Bath

Sidestream’s own Seth Chatfield will be offering another amazing Gong Bath at the studio. Don’t miss an opportunity to enjoy this incredible experience.

Bring a cozy blanket, sleeping bag or mat and get cozy on the sprung dance floor that amplifies the vibration into every cell of your being!

Doors open at 5:45 get there on time to get your favorite spot and settle in. Lights go off and gongs are going at 6!

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Tantra Yoga Teacher Training
Jan
29

Tantra Yoga Teacher Training

This is a unique opportunity to learn the art of living in yoga with Vira Bhava Yoga School (a sister business to Sidestream). Tantra is a path of yoga focused on the experiential humanness of life. In this teacher training we will prepare you to live in the fire of yoga, walk the walk and feel it all. If you choose to share your practice, this course is Yoga Alliance Accredited and you can graduate with a yoga teacher training certification. For more information click here.

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