DIEGO PIÑÓN
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Wednesday September 13th / 7pm-midnight — $10
DIEGO PIÑÓN, founder of Butoh Ritual Mexicano, in his first-ever Portland performance.
Snr. Piñón is making a rare pilgrimage to the Northwest, from his home in the mountains of Michoacan, where he lives alone in a state of uncompromised artistry. "As human beings used the energy of nature to survive, they created the first primitive forms of movement. In the Butoh dance we relive the sense of these primitive forms as a way to rescue all the lost parts of the human being. Butoh challenges us to empty our ordinary judgements, expectations, habitual actions and needs, to allow the emergence of a deeper self, propelling us to awaken and explore all human qualities, both subtle and outrageous, beautiful and ugly, to touch, if only for a moment, our inexplicable matter - the human soul. Through this process we can transform our dance and our daily life, to offer more creative energy to our community."
STREAMING LIVE SEPTEMBER 13th!
About the artist
Diego Piñón was born in Mexico city in 1957. He deepened his Mexican roots when, in 1975, he entered training with Mexican teachers of Energetic Movement. In 1979 he completed studies in the social sciences and began dancing at the Centro Superior de Coreografia in Mexico. He continued his body exploration through the study of therapies, including Bioenergetics, Core Energetics, and Gestalt. In Mexico, he studied contemporary dance in the Graham, Limon, and Horton methods, and theater techniques, especially Ritual Theater, and trained with teachers of theater companies such as the Odin Theater, the Roy Hart Theater, and Teatro Tascabile. He also learned the contemporary movement and therapy techniques of Release, Alexander and Klein.
Since 1987, Diego has trained in master techniques of Butoh, a Japanese style of Ritual Dance. Among his teachers are the renowned Butoh masters Natsu Nakajima, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Min Tanaka, Hisako Horikawa and Mitsuyo Uesugui.
In 1993 Diego was invited to participate with the Japanese Butoh dance group Byakko-Sha in the dance "Hibari to Nejaka". In 1994 he was invited to an artistic Encounter in Japan with the Butoh dance group Maijuku, directed by Min Tanaka, dancing in the piece "The ancient woman". He also presented his first Butoh Ritual Dance piece "Zacuala," in Kyoto.
In April 2000, Diego was invited to perform his own work in collaboration with McCaleb Dance of San Diego. July through September of 2000, supported by the Japan foundation, Diego returned to Japan to develop a dance work with the guidance of Kazou and Yoshito Ohno.
Currently, throughout Mexico, Europe, and North America, Diego choreographs, performs, and teaches actors, dancers, therapists and the general public in Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance.
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