YearOfButoh Videos

lifeartmastery.com http Dramatic lighting on a tree lined ridge above a local electricity transformer station inspires this dance that leads to focusing attention and exchange with a lively, yet doomed, little pine tree. There is an energetic "thickness" in the air and Maureen Freehill focuses on the polar electromagnetic charges of attraction and repulsion she senses between pairs of objects. Music by Calexico. Camera thanks to Jeanne.

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lifeartmastery.com http After attending a two day conference with amazing speakers, local food & networking to support the preservation and thriving of this gorgeous and precious part of the world, Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve & Prairie near Coupville on Whidbey Island, Maureen Freehill heads out to dance and celebrate the beauty of the land and sun with a daily dance for Year of Butoh. Music by Calexico. Camera thanks to Al.

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lifeartmastery.com http An especially windy day at Double Bluff Beach on Whidbey Island inspires this daily dance in consort with the wind and open space as it connects and dances in the space between the bodies of the earth, sea, sky, two kite boarders and Maureen Freehill for Year of Butoh. Music by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Camera thanks to Al.

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lifeartmastery.com http At the Dragon House 5Rhythms Dance Studio that belongs to Emily Day of Dancing Colors is the space for a dance of gravity and levity, spirals and energy exchange. The wonderful dragon painting is by artist Beno Kennedy. See dancingcolors.com Maureen Freehill plays with the soft bungee and scarves--"tools for dancing, costuming & creating environments" --and the basis of Emily's Langley business. Daily dance for Year of Butoh with song "Chocolate Cake" by Corn Mo....

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lifeartmastery.com http A fascination with geometry in and of the body and cosmos inspires this backyard butoh dance practice to sensually EXPERIENCE circle (sphere), square (cube), triangle (tetrahedron), spiral (torque of space), contraction (gravity), expansion (electromagnetic radiation) in space and then allow a morphing into dancing freely-- not thinking, only soul. Daily dance for Year of Butoh by Maureen Freehill. Music from Decent of Inanna...not sure of artist-- if you know, please ...

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lifeartmastery.com http The new momobutoh Studio on Whidbey Island gets its first Japanese Temple style floor cleaning as Maureen momo Freehill takes this opportunity to exorcise some inner "demons" as well in this daily dance for Year of Butoh. The music is an African Sufi group called Sidi Goma.

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lifeartmastery.com http After the most expensive & unusual homeopathic doctors appointment ever, Maureen Freehill feels inspired by a rainbow over Langley and quickly pulls in to the Catholic Church parking lot and hops out of the car for this daily dance full of wild new energy with an invisible partner. Music by White Stripes "Little Ghost"

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lifeartmastery.com http A 7 hour driving journey across Washington State along Colombia River basin with a stop at the Halls Dam leads to this daily dance of loosening the body & lightening the spirit by playing with an unusual huge metal object in this daily dance for Year of Butoh by Maureen Freehill. Music Penguin Cafe Orchestra

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lifeartmastery.com http For ages people have gathered around great fires to celebrate the transition time from the year's light to dark side. Some say the veil between the seen/unseen, the living/dead is thinner now. In Molson, WA neighbors gathered to assist the burning of a great pile of cleared slash that had to wait for snow to be safe. The burn begins at 11:11 in a thickly foggy clearing, by 11:30 the fog has lifted to reveal a most stunning view of the valley and Canadian boarder ...

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lifeartmastery.com http For nearly an hour walking on this road, NOBODY passes. Charlie the dog and Maureen Freehill find a silence that is somewhat disturbing in its mass...something seems to loom in the foggy emptiness. Here a pause along the road to explore a Daily Dance for Year of Butoh-- oh, so different than the busy city streets of Tokyo.. Is it the approach of Halloween? A submerged resignation? Peace? Music by Rachels.

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