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The Ume Group & Ren Gyo Soh present UNFIX Festival NYC

UNFIX NYC is a new festival of Performance and Ecology taking place at Grace & St. Paul Church on April 29-May 1 2016, presented by Ren Gyo Soh. UNFIX Festival started in Glasgow (Scotland) in 2015, created by performance artist and Butoh dancer Paul Michael Henry (www.unfixfestival.com), and Ren Gyo Soh is excited to bring it to New York as their 2nd anniversary celebration and fundraising event.

UNFIX is a multi-art form event fusing live performance, dance, installation, workshops and debate in a bid to unravel the knots in how we're living. Ecological crisis and renewal addressed through our bodies and physical sense of being alive.

This New York City version is the first collaboration between UNFIX and Ren Gyo Soh, which the two groups hope to make an annual event. We want to simultaneously celebrate and question our relationship to each other, to the planet on which we live, to our own imaginations and the structures that mould us in this time of ecological crisis.

This year Ren Gyo Soh, a Butoh-based theatre company in NYC celebrates its 2nd anniversary, and is using the opportunity to present UNFIX as a bridge between performance and ecology (or artists and the Earth on which they work). Our program will include live performances, installations, workshops, and yoga with live music.

*UNFIX NYC is presented by Ren Gyo Soh, sponsored by The Ume Group and Grace & St. Paul Church.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Day 1 - Friday, April 29th 6-9pm: Ren Gyo Soh Spring Workshop
Day 2 - Saturday, April 30th 7-10pm: Performance / Installation / Discussion
Day 3 - Sunday, May 1st, 2pm - 3:30pm: Yoga with Live Music

For workshop registration and full-festival passes, visit: http://www.theumegroup.org/store/c10/UNFIX_NYC.html

DAY 2 PROGRAMME: April 30, 7pm-10pm PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION / DISCUSSION
Featuring...
Performances by:
The Ume Group (Physical Theatre Company)
Kevin Augustin (puppet)
Leah Marie Beltran (Butoh/Contemporary Dance)
Bob Lyness (Butoh)
Jonathan Kopp (Butoh)
Ren Gyo Soh (Butoh based performing arts company)
(Jordan Rosin, Jorge Luna, Laura Aristovulos, Tatiana Galliher Jackson, Yokko)
and more.

Installation work:
collaboration between Ren Gyo Soh & Vanessa Teran
Art work by Vanessa Teran

Discussion on Butoh and Ecology
guest speakers: George Tsouris, Jordan Rosin, Paul Michael Henry