The Academy brings the following three Take-Away workshops to you, your country, your city,
your university, your school, your group, your theatre or your festival.

One Week Workshop: 30 hours, 6 hours a day, 5 days.

Four Week Workshop: 96 hours, 24 hours a week, 6 hours a day, 4 days a week.

Three Month Workshop: 288 hours, 12 weeks, 24 hours a week, 6 hours a day, 4 days a week.

About the Workshops
Students learn to choreograph; they learn a concept that is pertinent to all genres and styles, as well as to professional sports/athletics and visual arts like painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, film making, design, poetry and day to day life.

The intention is to create possibilities for the participant to develop a broad and efficient expression, to interpret and describe the body as unavoidable and insistent in all manifestations, even behind the most refined philosophy.

Physical Training: Across the floor with emphasis on flexibility, balance, energy, rhythm, co-ordination, precision, centre, concentration, strength, grounding, breathing and consciousness. The Physical Training is designed to bring the body to a more original form, closer to where it would be with a more balanced, more natural life. In Butoh, all muscles are taught to be controlled: from the small ones in the eyes to the major groups in the body.

An efficient system of Manipulations that stretch, heal, and make the body more pliable follows the Physical Training. Developed by Chinese acrobats, the Manipulations give the dancer indications of where to let go and directions he could move towards.

The participants will become acquainted with Hatha yoga and the powerful meditation of Sufi whirling as well as the three thousand year old Chinese Qi Gong exercises which regenerate the meridians and realign the muscles, bones and tendons.

Dance Workshops: Taught individually and in groups, include movement techniques, state of being, time, non-existence, visualizations, metaphysical exercises, breathing techniques, and much more. Most of these, like the Physical Training and Manipulations, originate from the concept “Japanese” Butoh dance, combining traditional techniques with European expressive dance.

Explore the tremendous energy in empty body, open eye, dead muscle, no power, big force and
contradictory energy/movement/imagination; go beyond the immediate personality to
uncover deeper archetypical layers.

To book Take Away Butoh please e-mail: dance@butohschool.com

Questions?  Please e-mail: dance@butohschool.com

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