Dates:
Dates: 5th&6th June 2027
Time: 10h-17h (including lunch break)
Venue:
EDEN***** Studio 190 OG, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin
Fee: 200€
Contact&booking: bookforbutoh@gmail.com
The workshop introduces how important the notion of metamorphosis within Butoh is.
Intention of the workshop is to explore transformation in Butoh, discovering ‘hybrid
bodies` as stimulus. Exercises are focused on shifting perspective, transformation and objectification of the body-mind.
All welcome
The workshop will be given in English.
Natsuko Kono
Butoh Dancer, Choreographer and Teacher.
Natsuko Kono was born and raised in Kobe, Japan. She studied Performing Arts and Dance at Birkbeck, University of London.
She has worked with Butoh artists Yumiko Yoshioka, Katsura Kan and Tadashi Endo, performing in their dance productions and in an opera directed by Doris Dörrie.
As a solo artist, Natsuko has performed internationally at the Paris Butoh Festival, Dublin Butoh Festival, Moving Bodies Festival, Sommerwerft Frankfurt International Theatre Festival 2024, Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni 2025 and International Literature Festival Berlin 2026, among others.
She has been invited to lead Butoh workshops in France, Switzerland, Italy, England, Ireland, Scotland, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Romania and Japan, as well as at BIG Butoh International Gathering 2024 and miniBIG 2026.
Since 2015, she has performed Anna Homler’s Breadwoman at music festivals across Europe.
Natsuko has lived and worked between Berlin and Rügen since 2015. In 2016, she founded Butoh Initiative, a long-term project dedicated to Butoh training and practice.