Butoh Dance

“Form to Form”

Where does form come from and where does it go to? What is in between forms? Which form concerns you?

The main point of the workshop is the development and work with form. Experience and feel form as an element.

Butoh dance deals mostly with deeply human and daily situations. Metamorphasis is a key word: Images and feelings grow out of sensual-meditive as well as comical-grotesque characters. Focusing on the reflectioin of internal images and their corporal expression is the central idea of Butoh.

This workshop offers the opportunity to sense your own ancient potential to move, as a single dancer, in duos, and within a group, and to add these movements to your personal reportoire. Through individual intensity, you can discover your own movements and resistances, realising and creating motion at your own pace. It is important for every dancer to find the reality and presence of his or her body – the life form within.

The warm-up training is based on Noguchi Gymnastics. The goal is to relax the entire body in order to perceive your body with increased awareness. We find the origin of movement through concentrating on the tanden – the center of the body. We try to listen to what our bodies say, honestly and unfettered, to develop motion in relation to time, space and imagination. Re-experience your life. Your body is a box with many personalities, old and young, jovial and aggrieved. Dive in, feel your body, your Self, and find new aspects within.

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