Butoh Dance, Performance Art and Music Come to Coney Island USA

On Sunday, April 2 only, dancer and master teacher Diego Piñón will present an "offering" toward bridging cultures and healing the disharmony that has developed between North and South, between Mexico and the United States.

For 3 evenings only - March 31-April 2 - fourteen Butoh dancers, under the guidance of Mexican master teacher Diego Piñón, will explore body rituals on Coney Island USA's Sideshows by the Seashore stage. International Culture Lab gathers this idiosyncratic group along with a revue of acts beyond Butoh. Each evening will be a unique extravaganza.

All tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at coneyisland.com, or at the door, night of performance

Ensemble: Katherine Adamenko, Dean James Beckwith, Chris Carlone, Abou Farman, Timon Hall, Brian Hicks, Daniel Inamorato S. Louro, Meyung Kim, Jonathan Kopp, Bob Lyness, Brandon Perdomo, Jennie Portney, Bronwyn Preece, Jacqueline Marie Shannon

and "BEYOND": Philadelphia blues and rock musician Wharton Tract; underground performance and alt-burlesque artist Miss Mary Cyn; performance artist Sick Nick the Bellevue Boy; punk-country-noise musician Paige Johnson-Brown from the band Irrevery

International Culture Lab - Nick Fracaro and Gabriele Schafer Co-Artistic Directors - is a performing arts organization dedicated to providing opportunities for artists from across the world to explore contemporary issues through jointly created projects. ICL believes that art has a responsibility to contextualize and promote the diversity of cultures and to encourage, celebrate and learn from their differences. Collaborating countries include Canada, Argentina, Germany, Turkey, New Zealand and the Republic of Georgia. ICL, in its early history as Thieves Theatre, interrogated the role of The Other in contemporary society with a series of controversial landmark productions, from its 1982 collaboration with a group of ex-mental patients called On Our Own in a production of Marat/Sade, to its world premiere in 1987 of Fassbinder's "unproducible" Trash, the City, and Death, and culminating in its 1990-1993 project on "The Hill" where the company's directors erected a full-sized Lakota inspired tipi, handmade from 78 US#3 mailbags, in the then oldest Manhattan shantytown at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge. http://ratconference.com/thieves/preslist.htm

Diego Piñón's Body Ritual Movement is the distillation of his extensive research in body-based energy methodologies since 1975. BRM is primarily derived from Piñón's Mexican heritage with traditional energetic practices and Japanese Butoh under the guidance of Kazuo Ohno,Yoshito Ohno, Min Tanaka, Natsu Nakajima, among others.

Coney Island USA exists to defend the honor of American popular culture through innovative exhibitions and performances. Presenting and producing exciting new works, the organization's approach is rooted in mass culture and the traditions of P.T. Barnum, dime museums, burlesque, circus sideshows, vaudeville, and Coney Island itself. Serving both New York City and an international community that includes visitors to Coney Island and enthusiasts of various cultural forms, Coney Island USA's signature activities include the Mermaid Parade, the Coney Island Circus Sideshow, the Coney Island Museum, and new theatrical work.

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