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Transformation Workshop

RenGyoSoh offers occasional workshops on the theme of transformation led by Yokko (she/he/they), who has been creating this workshop since 2016. It was originated inspired by Butoh and Ritual Movement, which was the seed. Yokko has been evolving this workshop past years synthesizing all of their other practices, and offering this workshop to cultivate, to develop, and to transform our beings, in other words, to bloom our full potentials in life and any creative circumstance, and beyond.
This is a spiritual transformation workshop through Butoh, ritual, movement studies, and more. Anyone and everyone is welcome to this workshop, no previous butoh training required. 

UP COMING! 
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Transformation
Between Earth & Sky; 
The world is a playground! 


​*Playing with Shinra-Bansyo / 森羅万象


Saturday, May 24th 
1-5pm 
at 
Grace & St. Paul's Church 
123 west 71st street 
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Scale Payment: 
$40-60-
Registration

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: 
Yokko (she/he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist from Japan, specialized in Butoh, Movement, Acting, Physical Theatre, and Yoga. She is also a choreographer, a director, a Theatre educator, a certified therapeutic essential yoga and Ayurvedic yoga therapy instructor, and USUI Jikiden Reiki Master Teacher as well.

She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including "Best One-Woman Show", "Best Choreography" "Best Physical Theatre" and "Best Actress" for Butoh Medea (United Solo NYC 2014 & 2015 at Theatre Row, TVolution 2018 Hollywood Fringe Awards). Butoh Medea was selected to perform in Warsaw, Poland. (United Solo Europe 2015, Teatre Syrena), toured Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, nominated The Asian Arts Award. It has been touring Europe and Universities in the USA since 2016. (Butoh Medea official website) Other Theatre credits include Lone Wolf Tribe's Body Concert (Labapalooza! 2018 at St. Ann's Warehouse), Hide Your Fires (Pan Asian Rep's NU Works, United Solo 2017: Theatre Row), BALDY (CRS NYC, United Solo 2013, Hollywood Fringe 2013, Fringe NYC 2012), Dance Credits Include Shira Hime Ryu (NY Butoh Institute Festival 2018 at Theatre For The New City), Hijikata Tatsumi's Last Words (Dance Medium, Noguchi Room, Hijikata Archive, Keio University, 2018), ManJuShaGe:A flower on earth, A flower (Dance Medium, Noguchi Room, Hijikata Archive, Keio University, 2017), FACET (Irondale Center, White Wave, Hollywood Fringe 2013).

Her choreographed work, SHINKA has been received several awards including Outstanding Premiere Production of a play and Outstanding Choreography from the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation (IT Awards 2019). Yokko also acted in several local and international films, one of which is the Student Academy Winner film, Cloud-Kumo (2016). Recently she has been appearing several music videos as a Butoh dancer including Cage The Elephant (Grammy Winner - Best Rock Album 2017)- Ready To Let Go (2019), NOIA- AUSENCIAS (2019) directed by Amy Gardner, POW! - Dream Decay (2019), and Automatic - Too Much Money (2019)

B.A. in Theatre (UAlbany), M.F.A. in Acting (The Actors Studio) Yokko's official website
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Artist Statement
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My themes in my work are transformation, life and connection. 

As a performing artist, a creator and a teacher, I would love to focus on transformation not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, energetically and spiritually. I would like to create a work which comes from deep inside of us; something that awakens us, something like a screaming of our souls, and I embrace the raw and authentic expressions coming from our bodies. No matter who we are, and where we are from - I believe these primal voices have the vibrancy that resonate us to connect, and I hope that lead us to understand each other in the deep level. I would love to share my heart to connect with others in the world. 

​I am very intrigued and interested in the relationship between human beings & nature, physical expression & its possibilities, and how our work will reflect the society we live in now. I use our bodies to explore, express, and share our voices. The primal art forms I use are Butoh, Theatre and visual arts, and I am open to collaborate with any other arts forms existing. 
Butoh awakens my soul; Butoh guides me to what I am. 
- Yokko
Currently Yokko serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Movement at Actors Studio Drama School MFA Program, International Performance Ensemble BA directing & BA Acting at Sand College Performing Arts School at Pace University, and Teaching Artist at The New Group Acting Studio at Long Island University Brooklyn BFA Acting , The Lee Strasberg Theatre Film Television Studio program at NYU BFA Acting.  ​

Past TRANSFORMATION Workshop 
2024, Butoh & Movement for Performing Artist (5 days intensive)  Turin, Italy 
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2023 Transformation; listening to your body
2020-2021 Cleansing 2020; Transforming to 2021 (Online)
Dec.22
Cleansing & Finding a seed of own flower 
Jan.9-10
Letting go and planting the seed of a flower 
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2020
Aug. 8-9, Summer Workshop (ONLINE)

2019
Nov. 16 Fall Workshop (NYC)
July 27th, Summer Workshop (NYC)
Feb. 1-2 Winter Workshop (NYC)

2018
Aug. 10-12. Summer 
Infinite Possibilities; Transformation 

April. 27 UNFIX NYC
Creating Your Path; Transformation 

March 8-10, Winter 
Finding Your Path; Transformation 

2017 
Oct. 19-21 Fall 3days 10 hours 

Memories in Body; Transformation
Aug. 3-5 Summer 3 days 10 hours 
Finding Roots; Transformation

Jan. 20-21 Winter
Let WAVE Us! Before Birth; Between Life & Death
 

2016
Fall
Transformation: A light in the darkness

Spring
Transformation: Be The Change

Winter
Transformation: Beyond sky; beneath Earth
Do what you believe, 
Believe what you do; 
And, 
Surrender 
To Unknown path; 

No fear
Dark to the light,
We emerge from the darkness, 
And,
We will be guided 
To the light.

We surrender-
To the creation. 

-Yokko

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