butoh school
butoh school
 


Academy of Experimental Dance Theater
"butoh"
 






Workshops.


Workshops: Taught individually and in groups, include dance 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.

The last two months focus on performance work.

Performance is perceived as an opportunity to create rooms for the audience to experience themselves in,
to become present in. The choreography is fleeting, like a path in a dream, making one performance slightly different from the next, bringing a distinct freshness and life to the stage. If a certain image or character is desired to appear, it is reached with inner pictures, manipulation of energy, imaginations and dance techniques. The dancer is always in the process of being; energy, history, costume, sound, light and set design coming together presenting a vast space of possibilities.


 

             
             
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