Dates: 14th & 15th June 2025
Time: 10h-18h (including lunch break)
Venue: EDEN***** Studio 150.1, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin
Fee: 200€
Contact&booking: bookforbutoh@gmail.com
The quality of movement and presence originate from our sensitivity, physical and emotional experiences. We tap into our own history and memories held in our bodies. You will be guided on a journey of the butoh-based training repertoire to ‘sensitize' the performer in very specific ways. It trains the perspective and listening ability as much as it trains the physical body. By listening to the more unconscious responses in the sensitive body-mind, performers gain access to broader range of materials and start to move beyond a habitual use of the body, the movement reaction comes from a deeper place within.
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, Sommerwerft Frankfurt International Theatre Festival and many more
Invited for Butoh workshops held in France, Switzerland, Italy, England, Irland, Scotland, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Romania, Japan and BIG Butoh International Gathering 2024
Dances Anna Homler’s ‘Breadwoman’ since 2015 and invited for Music Festivals in Europe Has lived and worked in Berlin/Rügen since 2015
Founded ‘Butoh Initiative’ in 2016 as a long-term training project
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Photo: Kasia Zimna