upcoming butoh workshop in SAN FRANCISCO...

(pre-registration deadline 2/14)...

still (unstill) dance to unquiet the mind.
contemporary butoh technique, imagery, improvisation & composition workshop with paige starling sorvillo.

there is nothing before you but an ocean of dream.
as your eyes flood this world, unadjust.
disquiet the skin, unfold the heart, swim to touch grace, and listen.
here is our own breath, blood, pulse, still and unstill.

February 24 & 25, 12 to 5pm. | margaret jenkins dance lab | 301 8th at Folsom, #200, SF
all levels/backgrounds welcome | $150 / $100 by 2/14 | paigesorvillo AT mindspring DOT com| 510.601.7494
to register, please send a check to paige sorvillo to 979 Capp St, SF, CA 94110

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recently past events -- Friday Feb. 2nd, and Sat. Feb 3rd 2007.

The 2007 Milkbar International Live Film Festival presents the League of Imaginary Scientists and blindsight in:

photo ian winters

The League of Imaginary Scientists: A Live Diagram of the Human Condition (an Imaginary Science experiment) an interactive performance examining the connection between thought and action while figuring the digestion of the world, drawn with interactive media, movement, and new sound

movement...blindsight choreographer/dancer paige starling sorvillo interactive audio...George Cremaschi responsive environment...the League of Imaginary Scientists A Live Diagram of the Human Condition (an Imaginary Science experiment): An interactive performance examining the connection between thought and action while figuring the digestion of the world, drawn with interactive media, movement, and new sound. Choreographer/dancer paige starling sorvillo moves within a drawn, responsive environment constructed live by The League of Imaginary Scientists and sound artist George Cremaschi. Eating words and swallowing clouds, starling sorvillo brings her lexicon of animated gestures and expressions to contemporary Butoh. Overlaid with scientific data, the live interaction relays the political and physical anatomy of consumption. About the players: The League of Imaginary Scientists concocts interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with scientists, technologists, and artists engaged in many media. While the League’s collaborators are very real, these card-carrying imaginary scientists have adopted pseudonyms to protect their anonymity in the cutthroat world of digital soft science: Live Diagram contributing imaginary scientists are Doctors Aojiru, Chao Hwa Chung, and L. Hernandez Gomez. Live Diagram collaborators are paige starling sorvillo, a 2007 CHIME awardee and artistic director of the performance collaborative blindsight, and versatile musician/composer George Cremaschi. links: www.imaginaryscience.org | www.blindsightperformance.org | www.paigesorvillo.com

thirty-seven isolated events
JANUARY 18, 2007 ONLY at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin, Civic Center BART, www.asianart.org
7pm, free with $5 museum admission

also

'these are my arms holding you, tearing you apart.'
January 25 to 28, 2007. 8pm at Dance Mission as part of Women on the Way Festival
3316 24th St at Mission, SF.  info/res www.ftloose.org / 415-289-2000.

Alone in desert of noise, a young soldier forces up hatred to steady his rightness in war.
On this minefield, this installed landscape no longer part of the soul,
the children we forgot to become are pierced again and again.
We are all at striking distance in a land we learn to mistrust.

thirty-seven isolated events begins with the normal running temperature of the human body and gradually fabricates a facsimile body. As the noise of our networked society creates intimate distance and distant intimacy, our mediated experience induces a virtual sensibility sanctioning long-distance killing and allowing our personal daily denial of that remote cause and effect. Our breath dictates, and is dictated by, our daily acceptance of our means to ends. Breathing becomes a mechanized process – the human biological system hybridized with the global system. Simultaneously, our own risk towards intimacy and trust create an opening to move away from our dispassionate, dried-up and mechanized daily violences and our network allows for unprecedented contact and communication among us.

blindsight artistic director paige starling sorvillo collaborates with Los Angeles-based media artist lucy h g; UK-based Australian composer duo imaginationandmymother (susan hawkins and olivia pisani); and SF/Oakland-based performers jez lee of Twincest, monique goldwater of Takami's Mobu and isabelle sjahsam of Leyya Tawil's Dance Elixir. Their creative collaboration offers a striking visual meditation on remote-access war and our daily complicity in the violence of the globalist/capitalist project.

thirty-seven isolated events is presented by the San Francisco Asian Art Museum and is supported in part by the Zellerbach Family Fund and Asian American Dance Performances. paige starling sorvillo is honored to be a 2007 CHIME mentorship awardee with marc bamuthi joseph.

www.paigesorvillo.com

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