Productions
Becoming Empty/Becoming Full:
Moving Mindfully through the Field of the Body
Allegheny College Residency
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, November 5, 2005
Lani Fand Weissbach taught a two-hour master class in Butoh to over 25 excited students and members of the community. In the afternoon, Shen & Bones performed Time/World/Body in the gorge under the foot bridge on the Allegheny College Campus. A Q & A followed the performance. The event was sponsored by Allegheny Dance Studies, Allegheny Neuroscience and the Erie Council on the Arts.
Time/World/Body premiere for weekend event "Bomb, Tomb, Womb, Om"
Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, September 10, 2005
The company performed the 35-minute dance in the raw and beautiful Apple Orchard on the Mercyhurst Campus
Pictures of the Floating World: An Evening of Dance Theater
Gannon University's Schuster Theatre, April 1-3, 2005
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The Toy Box Sets
Incorporating pulsing toy boxes filled with a wild array of ancient tools, fetish-beings, and frantic mechanical devices...
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Rubbed Raw Butoh Event
The Spareroom performance space, Chicago, IL, July 30-Aug. 6, 2004
Lani performed a new solo Exit Eden and created an original duet for two students.
University of Rochester Faculty Dance Concert
University of Rochester, Rochester NY, April 17, 2004
Lani and U of R faculty member Robert Bingham co-created and performed See What you Want to See. Lani also performed Ascent.
Blue Cat Stew
Forward Hall Concert Club and Urraro Gallery, Erie, PA, April 1-3 2004
Lani performed Ascent, and the company performed Strange Heroes. The company improvised in the Urraro art gallery, and with Joseph Allen Popp's Weirdo Theatre quartet. The event was organized by Erie's Underground Art Association.
Vine and Garden, Erie Art Museum event
Lakeshore Country Club, Fairview, PA, June 2003
The company entertained outdoors during the cocktail hour of this event.
Bleu Katz 2
Forward Hall Concert Club, Erie PA, April 4, 2003
The company performed Kingdom of Man as part of an entire weekend of poetry, music, and visual art presentations. Organized by Erie's Underground Art Association.
Butoh Lecture-Demonstration
Mercyhurst College, Erie PA, March 22, 2003
As part of a semester-long course entitled "Disseminating Asian Cultures," Lani Fand Weissbach presented a one-hour, 30-minute lecture-demonstration on Butoh. This was a-new course for secondary school teachers, initiated by Keiko Miller, director of Asian Studies and assistant professor of Languages at Mercyhurst College. The presentation began with a new 20-minute solo work choreographed and performed by Weissbach. A question/answer session followed, as well as simple exercises exploring basic concepts of Butoh improvisation. The class was given a series of questions and readings designed to help high school students discover how Butoh can be a springboard for learning about personal, cultural and universal concepts.
Erie Festival of Dance
Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center, Mercyhurst College, Jan. 24, 2005 and Feb. 1, 2003
Lani performed the darkly humorous solo Last Act, choreographed for her by Robert Bingham (2005)
Alethea Bodine, Marykate McDevitt and Lani Fand Weissbach performed Terrain of Memory, a mysterious journey through a shadowy landscape of loss and hope, struggle and liberation.
Gathering Momentum
Walnut Street Lodge, Sharon PA Nov. 29-30, 2002.
Lani and Doug Lodge performed Garden, an interpretation of the classic human struggle to overcome inevitable temptation.
Erie Art Museum Fundraising Ball
Marriot Hotel, Erie PA, February 2002.
Shen & Bones dancers moved to Motown music, passed out love notes and roses and created overall "grooviness" for this Valentine's Day event.
Allegheny Repertory Dance
Montgomery Performing Space, April 2002
Lani, Jenny Crooks, Gretchen Myers and Doug Lodge performed small dark light, an investigation into the purity and beauty of the elements earth, fire, air and water and their inherent destruction in this modern-day world.
The Bone Floor
Erie Art Museum Annex March 9-10, 2001
The Roadhouse Theater, Erie, PA August 24-25, 2001.
Shen & Bones performed Anima on a shared bill with the Chronic Dance troupe and The Noise Floor band
Faces/Shadows
Montgomery Performance Space, Meadville PA, October 19-20, 2001.
An evening of dance-theater featuring choreography by Lani Fand Weissbach and original music by local musicians in Erie and Meadville. Original text written by the performers.
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Urraro Gallery Art Opening
Erie, PA, July 6, 2001
Coordinated and performed Butoh improvisation for local artist Heather Hertel's Glass Art opening. Created original costumes with company member Alethea Bodine.
Papermoon Restaurant
Erie PA, May 13, 2001.
Created original costumes and sets in collaboration with company members Alethea Bodine and Marykate McDevitt for Mother's Day brunch and dinner. The mood of the performance highlighted the light and humorous aspects of Butoh. Performed by Lani, Alethea and Marykate.
Faculty, Friends and Alumni Dance Concert
Montgomery Performance Space, Allegheny College, Sept. 1-2, 2000
Valerie Hensel and Lani performed Burning, a piece utilizing extreme emotional expression to unearth the Shadow that lives within our subconscious.
Reflections of Eve
Montgomery Performance Space, Meadville PA, May 14-15, 1999.
An evening of five original dance-theater works by Lani Fand Weissbach. The concert also provided a forum for two Allegheny College dance students to showcase work.
The Program:
Between Stillness and Motion
A purely physical dialogue between moving and still bodies interwoven with sound and silence.
creature/one ear to the ground
Creature/one ear to the ground merges two parts. The first, a solo, follows an animal-like creature-turned-human through the terrain of a self-made wasteland. A collage of images, text, sound and movement, the second part investigates the need for hope and connection to others and the earth.
Jane's Story
Six performers in this original version
Kingdom of Man
A raw and gripping work illuminating the physical, emotional and spiritual implications of women in this culture living in a man's world. The piece seeks to expose the powerful dark side of our collective psyche. The work premiered at Arizona State University and was performed for the Erie Underground Art Association's Bleu Katz 2 Production (Friday April 4, 2003).
Faculty, Friends and Alumni Dance Concert
Montgomery Performance Space, Allegheny College, Sept. 1-2, 1998.
Lani performed Always Returning, a sensual journey through losing and finding the comfort and love of the one dearest to our hearts.
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