GROSSMONT COLLEGE — Movement artist Don Mcleod, known for his Butoh performances, will conduct a free workshop on campus at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 15, thanks to a grant from the  World Arts and Culture Committee.

McLeod “began his Butoh performance career right here on the Grossmont College campus back in  the 1970’s and is thrilled to be coming back to share his work with the Grossmont College campus community,” said  Instructor Brian Rickel.

McLeod began performing the Japanese dance art form  of Butoh, translated as stomp dance or earth dance, in the 1970s.

Since his first  appearance at Grossmont College, McLeod has toured numerous colleges,
theatres and high schools in the U.S. and Canada, performing this art  form that was developed in Japan in the 1960s, known then as Ankoku  Butoh, or Dance of Darkness. Its movements incorporate elements of mime,  Tai chi and Kabuki and involve distorting the body, moving slowly on  bent legs with rolled up eyes.

McLeod has studied  with such leading movement artists as Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux,  Jerzy Grotowski and Sankai Juku. He has appeared in many feature films,
television shows and commercials performing as gorillas, werewolves,  hunchbacks, and witches.

More information on McLeod and Butoh theatre is available at Mcleod’s website:  www.zenbutoh.com

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Preceding based on information provided by Grossmont College’s public information office