Shell of Citrus Peel
Shell of Citrus Peel
Sunday, April 28th
Studio Ma
Doors at 7:00, show at 7:30
$15-30 sliding scale
Followed by a potluck gathering
Please RSVP
Katrina Wolfe will present a new work featuring a large suspended paper sculpture, heaps of dried citrus peels, and a garment and headdress made entirely of these same dried peels. Working with these materials, she will explore their texture, shape, and response both within and outside the body in a long-duration, freeform dance. In collaboration with the movement and the sound created by the materials, Joey Largent will provide accompanying music from a collection of amplified, malleted cymbals, building an immersive soundscape of cascading overtones to bring viewers deeper into the dance, the environment, and their own bodies. This work has been in various stages of planning and creation for many years, and the collection of materials that will be used in it has been accumulating for even longer.
We hope you can join us for a gathering after the performance. If you’d like, you are welcome to bring snacks and beverages to share.
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Studio Ma is located in the University District at 4332 University Way NE. ENTER FROM THE ALLEY east of University Way, BETWEEN NE 45TH ST and NE 43TH ST. Studio Ma is a gray building with a black metal fence. Go through the gate and up the ramp.
The entrance is just north of the back entrance of the University Bookstore and across from the back entrance of the Malloy Apartments.
Dreams of the Harmonic Reed System
Dreams of the Harmonic Reed System
Friday, April 19th
Artlab Thuja (Chimacum, WA)
Doors 6:00, show 6:30
$15 - 30 sliding scale
Followed by a potluck gathering and bonfire.
Please RSVP
Joey Largent will present his newly reworked composition in collaboration with Katrina Wolfe and a group of close friends for three shruti boxes, one harmonium, voice, and live, improvised movement. The original piece was performed twice-- once in Seattle (Chapel Space) and once in Port Townsend (Battery Brannon, Fort Worden) in 2021. The current version features a new draft of the composition and a newly realized just intonation tuning. Past audience members have described the work as both ‘gorgeous’ and ‘hallucinatory’ with layers upon layers of natural harmonics emerging from the collective mass. Katrina Wolfe will join once again with her subtle, glacial and meditative movement that both complements the shifting overtones and takes viewers deeper into their own inner cathedrals. The powerful energy of this meditative and healing piece is not to be missed.
Masukhuma Intensive
March 30th & 31st
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Artlab Thuja (Chimacum)
$75 - 125 sliding scale per day
Please RSVP
Photograph by Dmitry Artamonov
This two-day workshop is open to anyone interested in developing, exploring, or discovering their movement art abilities, and also to anyone interested in healing through movement, somatic awareness, and meditation.
No background in dance is necessary. All are welcome, whatever one’s age, physical ability, movement background, or lack thereof.
The Saturday and Sunday sessions each run from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Workshop fee is $75–$125 sliding scale per day.*
*Please note: if you choose to attend a single day of the intensive, only Saturday is possible.
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If you would like more information about this workshop, please contact Katrina at:
keenawolfe@gmail.com, or (206) 612-4687
For information about accommodations, parking, etc., please contact:
artlab.thuja@icloud.com or camillehilde@gmail.com.
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This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to delve deeply into each of the four foundational components of masukhuma. Explanations and demonstrations of various exercises will provide participants with an in depth understanding which they will then have ample time to explore and experiment with, working solo and with partners and groups.
Over the course of each day, the exercises will generally move from more rigorous to more subtle, as the concentration and sensitivity increases. In addition to partner work, some exercises will involve working with various (mostly organic) materials. The sensory experience of touching and being touched by other humans and also by contacting natural objects will begin to dissolve the boundary between oneself and all which is seemingly external: other humans, the nature, etc. Through the practice of masukhuma, one cultivates awareness of the physical sensations of the individual body and the whole microcosm it contains. But through doing so, it ultimately and simultaneously spreads this awareness far beyond the self and begins to physically feel it’s interconnectedness with all life, the planet itself, and the universe. The exploration becomes one of both microcosm and macrocosm.
A theme of the workshops will be working with contrasts: from moving extremely quickly to so slowly that movement is hardly perceptible; from feeling the infinitesimal size of the body to its enormous, expansiveness, experiencing aging and decay, birth and regeneration. By exploring these contrasts and many others, we will move towards a dance where both concepts exist simultaneously, and where the awareness or strength of one or the other becomes simply an ebb and flow rather than an opposition or suppression of either. Being able to dance with — and to live with — all these opposites intermingled and coexisting is to experience the meaning of the ma which both begins and ends the word masukhuma. Of its many meanings, ma universally means “the mother”, and learning to accept the non-duality in all aspects of existence is to be held, protected, and nurtured. It is by learning to fully feel our own bodies (on a physical level) that we can create this place of ma within ourselves. In Japanese the meaning of ma is space, pause, emptiness. Sukhuma in Pali means subtle, fine, exquisite. Ultimately, this workshops aims to help each participant cultivate the ability to, at any moment, both in daily life and in their movement practice, be able to access this place of subtlety and space within themselves, in which they are fully supported, safe, and free.
Tatsumi Hijikata Birthday Celebration
Tatsumi Hijikata Birthday Celebration
Saturday, March 9th
Studio Ma
Doors at 6:30, film begins at 7:00
Sliding scale: $15-$25
Please RSVP (space is limited)
In celebration of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata (March 9th, 1928 - January 21st, 1986) this evening will feature a film screening of “Summer Storm” the only documented, full length performance by Hijikata and his company.
After the film there will be performances by Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh with sound by Bill Horist, and Katrina Wolfe with sound by Joey Largent.
The evening will conclude with a gathering, and an altar will be set up with photographs of the butoh founders, etc. Feel free to bring light snacks/beverages, and/or candles, flowers, offerings, photographs of any loved ones to place on the altar.
Tapestries
Tapestries: an evening of butoh and music
Saturday, February 17th
Studio Ma
Doors at 7:30, Show at 8:00
Sliding Scale $15-$25
We kindly ask that you RSVP
About the Performers:
Kitsune, is an avant-garde music project initiated six years ago by Kiyan Fox, and is comprised of guitars, violin, vocals, drums, and electronics. With six members who are also involved in various other projects (Moraine, Kled, Contraband Countryband, Stellarum, Fungal Abyss, and T-Rox, etc.), Kitsune's experimental nature draws inspiration from planetary squares and evocations, and songs that are beautiful, dark and dreamy.
Koto no WA, a koto ensemble formed nearly 20 years ago at Nikkei Manor, has evolved to play traditional and contemporary songs for local events, such as the International Culture Festival at Meany Hall, From Hope to Hiroshima, Aki Matsuri (Japanese Fall Festival), and seasonal events at Seattle Japanese Garden. Over the years, they've expanded their membership to include beginners and intermediate players who learned koto during childhood. They actively perform at local events, including Nikkei Manor, Sakura-Con, Japan Fair, Seattle Japanese Garden, Seattle Cherry Blossom Run, Mukai Farm & Garden (Vashon Island), and various public schools in the Greater Seattle area.
Katrina Wolfe’s “Unveiling in a Misty Landscape” will be a largely improvised work, incorporating various organic materials contributing both visually and sonically to the piece. In her movement, Katrina will draw inspiration from deep self-reformation work that has been blossoming with the new year, and the visions for what lies ahead. The piece will also draw from the immense tragedies taking place in the world, and allow both personal and global, grief and joy to nestle closely together, amidst the always, underlying acknowledgment of the interconnectedness of humans beings and the natural world.
Joey Largent will accompany the piece with vocals and a variety of instruments.
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Studio Ma is located in the University District at 4332 University Way NE. ENTER FROM THE ALLEY east of University Way, BETWEEN NE 45TH ST and NE 43TH ST. Studio Ma is a gray building with a black metal fence. Go through the gate and up the ramp.
The entrance is just north of the back entrance of the University Bookstore and across from the back entrance of the Malloy Apartments.
Performance + Film Screening of The Wind That Rolls Upon the Water
Performance + Film Screening of The Wind That Rolls Upon the Water
Saturday, October 28th
Studio Ma (Seattle)
7pm, followed by tea and a discussion
Suggested donation: $10-20
We kindly ask that you RSVP
We would like to invite you to join us for a short a performance collaboration between Katrina Wolfe and Joey Largent, followed by a film screening of our group performance from last December, 2022, performed at Chapel Performance Space here in Seattle. The work was a collaboration between Katrina Wolfe and Joey Largent and performed by a special ensemble of friends and fellow meditators, Annapurna Dharma Communion (Jackie An, Ian Gwin, Russell Christenson, Manasvi Patel, Sam Vanderlinda, Michael Shannon, Katrina Wolfe and Joey Largent). This is a great chance to see and listen to the piece if you weren’t able to make it, or if you just want to see it again! The work features incredibly subtle and dynamic dancing from Katrina Wolfe in her beautifully handmade costumes as she drifts through the sounds of the score.
Excerpt from the performance
If you’re curious, you can watch a short clip here: https://youtu.be/_gjdGUXB7vs
Original description of the piece:
Joey Largent presents his most recent composition in collaboration with movement/costume/installation artist Katrina Wolfe for an acoustic just intonation ensemble composed of meditation practitioners, musicians, and friends. Composed primarily on the Olympic Coast and in the North Cascades near the Lower Curtis Glacier, the work follows an exploration of changing natural landscapes and physical masses as the ensemble organically weaves through a semi-improvised score paired with the gradual tidal changes of an extended field recording from the Washington Coast. Sensitive to the sound and structure, Wolfe offers a complementary reflection of the terrain through continuous, hypnotic movement that is enhanced by her meticulously hand-stitched costumes and intricate choreography. Pulling from ongoing years of study in North Indian Classical gayaki (vocal music), Largent’s composition unifies these elements by suspending a passage through variations of four different ragas of morning, afternoon, and night for a slow moving work of an unfixed duration.
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Studio Ma is located in the University District at 4332 University Way NE. ENTER FROM THE ALLEY east of University Way, BETWEEN NE 45TH ST and NE 43TH ST. Studio Ma is a gray building with a black metal fence. Go through the gate and up the ramp.
The entrance is just north of the back entrance of the University Bookstore and across from the back entrance of the Malloy Apartments.
The Clattering of Emptiness
Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm, followed by a Q&A and a gathering
(Feel free to bring light refreshments)
Studio Ma
Sliding scale $20 - $30
If you plan to attend, please RSVP.
(space is limited)
This piece will feature live movement, and an installation of a collection of dried avocado skins that has been growing for the last five years, as well as a costume that has been growing and transforming for over ten years, glass bottles, pampas grass stalks and a surprise that has been with Katrina since she was a child. Over the course of the hour, the installation will undergo a transformation amidst a live soundscape of amplified cymbals, voice, harmonium, and tongue drum by Joey Largent.
Photo by Dmitry Artamonov
Location Details:
Studio Ma is located in the University District at 4332 university Way NE. ENTER FROM THE ALLEY east of University Way, BETWEEN NE 45TH ST and NE 43TH ST. Studio Ma is a gray building with a black metal fence. Go through the gate and up the ramp.
The entrance is just north of the back entrance of the University Bookstore and across from the back entrance of the Malloy Apartments.
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Location
Studio Ma is located in the University District at 4332 university Way NE. ENTER FROM THE ALLEY east of University Way, BETWEEN NE 45TH ST and NE 43TH ST. Studio Ma is a gray building with a black metal fence. Go through the gate and up the ramp.
The entrance is just north of the back entrance of the University Bookstore and across from the back entrance of the Malloy Apartments.