Dates:
Dates: 5th-6th December 2026
Time: 10h-18h (including lunch break)
Venue:
EDEN***** Studio 150.1, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin
Fee: 200€
Contact&booking: bookforbutoh@gmail.com
In this co-facilitated workshop, Natsuko Kono (JP/DE) & WilL Dickie (UK) draw on over 25 years of shared experience in performer training practices. After meeting through Butoh in London in 2006, their artistic paths have continued to grow from a commitment to performance work grounded in deep body practices. Both have danced many times for Tadashi Endo and, since 2022, have been developing their own teaching approach inspired by his legacy.
Their practice incorporates ongoing experience in choreography, theatre, martial arts, Suzuki training, reflexology and the Feldenkrais Method. Working across these fields has enabled them to keep their connection to Butoh alive, while deepening their understanding of the body, presence and liveness in performance. They believe Butoh’s approach can enrich creativity for artists and movers of all kinds, regardless of discipline or experience.
In this workshop, Natsuko and WilL invite participants to go deep through embodied practice, cultivating sensitivity, presence and access to hidden inner resources. Together they will explore states of attention that support powerful, committed and visceral performance. The workshop welcomes participants from a wide range of backgrounds
and levels of experience, including theatre, dance, movement, martial arts, somatic practices, or those simply curious to explore the body as a creative and expressive medium.
All welcome
The workshop will be given in English.
For details of the practices you will encounter please read our biographies.
BIOGRAPHY
Natsuko Kono is a Butoh 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, BIG Butoh International Gathering 2024, TRA2025 and more. Invited for Butoh workshops held in France, Switzerland, Italy, England, Ireland, Scotland, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Romania and Japan. Dances Anna Homlers ‘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.
natsuko-kono.wixsite.com/urbanbutoh
WilL Dickie is an artist and performance maker based in Liverpool (UK). As a facilitator he has lead artists, learning disabled movers & arts students in his practice internationally. His training includes the Indian Martial Art Kalaripayattu, as taught by Theatre Director Phillip Zarrilli(US/UK). The Nobbs Suzuki Praxis, as taught by John Nobbs and Jacqui Carrol of OzFrank(AUS). And Butoh Dance, as taught by Tadashi Endo(JP/GER). As a director/choreographer his recent works include THE SECRET GARDEN (2024, Regents Park Open Air Theatre London), CLUBHOUSE DUSK (2023, Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts) and ECHO IN THE DARK (2022 by Hanna Tuulikki, Hospitalfields Scotland), and his own work B4 HISTORY WE DANCED (2017/2019). His one man show WHITE SUN toured the UK in 2022/3. Previous touring performance works include THE RAVE SPACE (2019), TEAM OF THE DECADES (2017) & MEMORIES OF SUBURBIA (2015). His dance film CANNING TOWN(2020), created with Fabiola Santana, has toured internationally, winning awards for best film in Romania, Scotland and Portugal.
For more info and videos visit: willdickie.co.uk WilL also DJs, as Always WilL. To hear his mixes head to his mixcloud > https:// www.mixcloud.com/AlwaysWill/