Ledoh
email: ledoh@earthlink.net
“We live in the body which is form proceeding through time. When I am fully in the body, I experience a sense of timelessness. Movement is one avenue to experience the moment. When fully standing in the moment, the past and the future are easily accessible. I am a filter allowing energy and experience to pass through me. “
1998-present Founder, Artistic Director
Salt Farm Butoh
(formerly Ledoh and Dancers)
Leads weekly group meetings in practice of breath, movement, and Butoh dance. Responsible for company management, choreography, and production of theater performances and site-specific installations.
1996–present Independent Researcher
Researching and recording stories, dances, and rituals of the
Ka-Ren people of Thailand and Burma for a contemporary performance project (working title: River of Sand).
1999-2002 School Bus Driver
San Francisco Unified School District
Responsible for care and transportation of developmentally
disabled students.
1990-2001 Dancer and Choreographer
Member of Katsura Kan’s Saltimbanques Butoh dance company. Performed with Kan and as a soloist between 1990-1997 in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka, Japan and Chiang Mai, Thailand. Ledoh last performed with Kan at the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Languages Ka-Ren, English, Conversational Burmese
Ledoh & Salt Farm Butoh
ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCES
2002 October Murikan Pulp
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin San Francisco Street Theater Festival
August Pause
San Francisco International Butoh Festival
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
July River Rock Sun
Camp Kunst-Stoff, Eel River, Willits, CA
June Reverberation
A collaboration with sound artist Kintundu
presented by Luggage Store Gallery
Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, CA
April Abacus II
Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA
March Improvisation
with Kinji Hayashi and Shinichi Momo Koga
Theater of Yugen-Noh Space, San Francisco, CA
2001 September Vigil
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin
San Francisco Street Theater Festival
August Curious Fish, with Saltimbanques
Edinburgh International Fringe Festival
July Curious Fish, with Saltimbanques
San Francisco International Butoh Festival
Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
April Abacus
Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA
2000 June Shelter
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin San Francisco Street Theater Festival
March Requiem for Darkness
a co-production with Harupin-Ha
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
1999 June Daisies
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin
San Francisco Street Theater Festival
March Flower of the Ashe
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin
Theater of Yugen Noh Space, San Francisco, CA
Ledoh SOLO PERFORMANCES
2003 March Elsewhere Here
celebration of 10 years of collaboration with composer Reverend Markus Hawkins.
Theater of Yugen Noh Space, San Francisco, CA
2002 October Plastic
multi-media collaboration with Aaron Wolf Baum
The Lab, San Francisco, CA
July 14 Bells
curated by Yannis Adoniou
a collaboration with international ballet, modern,
and flamenco soloists
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Sky Farm
private site specific performance
Blue Mountain Crossing, Sonoma, CA
May Lampy’s Out
site specific performance
Thornton Ranch, Sonoma, CA
1998 June Untitled
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin
San Francisco Street Theater Festival
May The Secrets of Nature
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin
Paradise Wood Sculpture Grove
Paradise Ridge Winery, Santa Rosa, CA
1997 May To the Last Bite
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin
In the Street Onstage
Cowell Theater, San Francisco, CA
January Opening Ceremony Performance
Jubilee Jam Arts and Music Festival
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
1996 June Modern Dance Japan
guest artist for two solo pieces
The Winningstad Theater, Portland, OR
Performance at the Garden
site specific performance
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin
Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens
San Francisco, CA
January Feather of the Moon
solo performance with local musicians
Novo Tempo Gallery, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Ledoh SOLO PERFORMANCES cont’d
1995 October Performance in the Gutter V
site specific collaboration
with Reverend Markus Hawkins, violin
Cohen Alley, San Francisco, CA
September Kinetic Alchemy
co-produced with Dimension 7
Live multimedia performance
with computer artists, musicians, dancers, robots
Spear and Folsom Streets, San Francisco, CA
1994 October Mega-chan Bit into Reality
collaboration with Cyberlab 7
San Francisco, CA
Performance in the Gutter IV
collaboration with musicians and poets
Cohen Alley, San Francisco, CA
June Ocean
solo performance
San Francisco International Youth Hostel
Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
April 1000 Market
site specific group collaboration
1000 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
January Spirit of Fire
Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1993 November Untitled
848 Community Space, San Francisco, CA
October Salt
Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
July Nosrat
Opt Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
March Code Blue
Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1990–1992 Performed as a soloist and member of Katsura Kan’s Saltimbanques troupe, multiple venues
Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, and Osaka, Japan