Location
DOCK 11, Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin
and Mauerpark
Time
Daily 11am - 6pm
Costs
Single weekend workshop (November or February) 210,-€ Early booker 190,- €
4-day workshop on Ascension Day (29 May - 1 June) 420,-€ Early bird booker 380,- €
Triology:(November + February +May ) : 690,-€ Early bird booker 600,- €
until 2 months before
Registration
Annalisa Maggiani: maggiani@danzaterapia.eu
November 16th + 17th, 2024 "Rhizomes"
February 15th + 16th, 2025 "Blooming"
May 29th - June 1st, 2025 "The fruits of Eden”
There are forgotten spaces in our body's memory where time seems to have stood still. We will open and ventilate these spaces. The slowness and silence between movements opens the door to new possibilities. In Butoh dance we move our bodies from strong, repetitive imaginations. These imaginations support the intensity of our movement. The healing powers of our nerves and fascia are awakened. The polyvagal nervous system is activated in Butoh dance, so that dance can emerge from the very foundation of our being and bring our essential forms of expression to light. In Butoh dance, we let the body speak to us from its innermost layers. This creates a dance that can touch the collective subconscious of the "spectators". In this workshop, each person is supported in developing the personal expressiveness of their own dance. The different styles of Annalisa and Henriette merge sensitively and open up a wide spectrum of expression possibilities for the participants. Three workshops as a trilogy Which can be booked together or independently of each other. The third part is a performance workshop.
First part: "Rizome"
In this workshop, we will let the energy of autumn in. Draw our strength into our roots and let the body speak from our depths. Our extensive shared root system can develop. We can perceive these connections in our body and share them with other dancers and create a dance of belonging. We will contact the collective, pulsating body, the grounding, the rooting, the connection with the earth and between living beings. "Rizome" Dance!
Second part: "Blooming"
Dancing, we open ourselves to the returning light of February. We use the transformative power of early spring, sense its resonance in our own bodies and immerse ourselves in the metamorphosis of opening. Awaken organic and natural movements to unfold. In dance, we discover new ways to make our inner flowers, our most authentic being, bloom.
Third part: "The fruits of Eden”
A walking act about fading and blowing away... (4 days on Ascension Day with a final performance in Mauerpark) Our imaginations guide our movements, our bodies are moved from our inner images. The group performance arises from our invisible connections, our shared breath, our imagination, our bodies.
Henriette Heinrichs:
Henriette has been teaching Butoh dance since 1990. She studied Butoh dance in: 1986 / 1987 with Shanti Oyarzabal for two years, during a School for Performing Arts at the "Etage e.V.“at Berlin.
1988 / 1990 training with Minako Seki and Yumiko Yoshioka. She worked as a costume designer and dancer at "tatoeba-theatre-dance-grotesque" the first German company.
By the Time she took lessons also from other teachers like: Anzu Furukawa, Akaji Maro, Carlotta Ikeda, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Ko Morobushi, Yuko Kaseki, Yukio Waguri, Masaki Iwana and Atsushi Takenouchi.
1990/1993 she worked as a choreographer for the following independent theater groups:
“College of Hearts” Berlin “Hagazussa” Berlin „Antagon Theater” Frankfurt/M “RAMM Theater” at Schloß Bröllin She taught Butoh dance at the following institutions, among others: “Schokofabrik e.V.” Berlin “ Etage - School for the Performing Arts e.V.” Berlin “Department: Peace Research” at the University of Innsbruck “Frauen-Landhaus Charlottenberg” In 1995 Henriette founded the „4-Jahreszeiten Training Berlin“ as part of the “Heinrichs-Swoboda-Institute for Body-Oriented Self-Awareness” and has since then she also used Butoh dance in some therapeutic areas.
Annalisa Maggiani:
Annalisa Maggiani, Butoh dancer, performer, dance movement therapist, MA in Art Psychoterapy, graduate philosopher, psychologist, Master in Authentic Movement(Art Therapy italiana). She has realised numerous Butoh performance projects in collaboration with the Butoh master Yumiko Yoshioka in Liguria, Tuscany and Berlin. From 2003-2013 she is Artistic Director of the Butoh festival ‘La Danza di Confine’ in Lerici and Sarzana (La Spezia) and has studied Butoh with Yumiko Yoshioka, Kazuo Ono, Yoshito Ono, Carlotta Ikeda, Anzu Furukawa, Minako Seki, Atsushi Takenouchi and others. With her solo pieces, she has performed together with musicians and visual artists at many festivals in Europe.
With her group Gest/Azione, she usually performs in public spaces, in village squares, underground stations, castles and quarries, always relating the story to the space. Since 2023 she has initiated the ‘Body Liberation’ with Yumiko Yoshioka, where Butoh Body Resonance meets Authentic Movement and dance with nature. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Italy gest-azione.de