Dates: Dates: 22nd&23rd June2024
Time: 10h-18h (including lunch break)
Venue: EDEN***** Studio 150.1, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin
Fee: 200€
Contact&booking: bookforbutoh@gmail.com
Butoh’s “dead body” is an “empty body”, or at least a body that has space within it “into which the dancer places an emotion” which can then freely express itself. Without this technique, the “living body” would divert the emotion, drawing it into its own logic. As long as the body maintains an existence marked by social experience “living body” cannot express the soul with purity.
Over 2days you will be guided on a journey of the training repertoire to “sensitise” the performer in very specific ways to discover Butoh’s “dead body” and relation to emotion and imagery. It trains the perspective and listening ability as much as it trains the physical body.
Kazuo Ohno says “If you wish to dance a flower, you can mime it and it will be everyone’s flower, banal and uninteresting, but if you place the beauty of the flower and the emotions evoked by it into your dead body, then the flower you create will be true and unique and the audience will be moved”
Open Level
The workshop will be given in English.
Natsuko Kono
Dancer, Dance Teacher and Choreographer
Born and grew up in Kobe, Japan
Studied Performing Arts, Dance at the Birkbeck University of London
Worked with Butoh Artists Yumiko Yoshioka, Katsura Kan, Tadashi Endo in their dance
productions and in an Opera by Doris Dörrie
Performed as a solo artist at Paris Butoh Festival, Dublin Butoh Festival, Moving Bodies
Festival and many more
Invited for Butoh workshops held in France, Switzerland, Italy, England, Irland, Scotland,
Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Romania and Japan
Has lived and worked in Berlin/Rügen since 2015
Founded ‘Butoh Initiative’ in 2016 as a long-term training project