EUROPEAN CENTER OF BUTOH | Academy of Experimental Dance Theater


Nutrition and Dance

Nutrition is an important part of a dancer's life, perhaps the most important. We are what we eat and, therefore, nutrition is an integral part of the Academy's approach to dance and the physical body. At the Academy, we have over twenty years' research experience in the relationship of nutrition to energy, flexibility, strength and the regeneration of the physical body.


At the Butoh School, our seven-month professional physical and artistic education, participants are offered the opportunity to experience and determine how various substances affect the human body, mind and spirit. Participants are invited to observe two weeks without sugar (alcohol), two weeks without glutens, two weeks without meat, two weeks without dairy products and two weeks on the separation diet.
Diet is also an important part of our short workshop programs.