DATE AND HOURS
June 7th & 8th, 2025
Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (including 90-minute lunch break)
LOCATION
EDEN Studio 190 OG
Breite Straße 43, 13187 Berlin
FEE
- 170€ - Early bird until May 4
- 200€ - Regular price
- Further information will be provided upon registration.
REGISTRATION
jerzakkrzysztof@gmail.com
The workshop will consist of two interconnected parts. In the first part, we will focus on ‘touching ourselves’. To achieve this, we will look at the body as an organic map containing movable points and lines, whose various constellations modify the planes (front, back, and sides of the body). This work will open access to a deeper bodily-emotional perception and release the potential of new directions and qualities of movement.
In the second part, based on the level of awareness and sensitivity we have gained, we will open ourselves to ‘touching the other’. Here, through ‘physical’ contact, we will explore the possibilities of influencing and modifying the bodily-emotional-mental structure of our partner. The partner, opening up to this ‘external’ transformation, will use it as an inspiration to discover movement expression at even deeper layers of the body-mind.
The further part of the process will guide us towards externalizing the depth of the relationship and mutual interaction, in which change in me transforms the other, and change in the other transforms me.
The workshop is intended for both beginners and advanced individuals who are interested in self-development and expanding and deepening body-mind awareness.
It will be useful for dancers, performers, actors, people training martial arts, yoga, etc., as well as those interested in body therapy who are seeking authentic movement and mindful presence in the body in relation to others.
The workshop will be given in English.
BUTOH
Is a Japanese "modern" dance that emerged in the 1950s as a result of the search for new forms of expression. Based on a deep connection with the body, it allows one to discover themselves through the exploration and integration of emotions, dreams, archetypes, symbols, and elements of nature. The dancer opens themselves to deep insights that enable them to move beyond familiar patterns of expression. In this way, their movement is always fresh and unique, and the dance becomes a ritualistic, creative, and liberating process that penetrates the unknown qualities of existence.
LEADING (m.facebook.com/KokoroKJ)
Krzysztof Jerzak is a butoh dancer, choreographer and aikidoka. He began his aikido trening in 1987 and between 2003-2020 taught regular aikido classes. He holds the 4th dan master degree and was the founder and teacher of Kobayashi Hirokazu Aikido Academy in Cracow, Poland.
In 1999 he started learning Japanese butoh dance. He studied with Daisuke Yoshimoto, Itto Morita, Atsushi Takenouchi, Imre Thormann, Katsura Kan and others.
His solo performances include: "Honest?" (2002), "Beyond" (2005), "Straw-butoh" (2009), "Sharing (Yourself)" (2019), "Words, Words, Words..." (2019), "Hana no Michi" – The Way of Flowers (2020), "Mirror" (2023).
In 2004, he led a year-long project called "Integration in Dance Therapy", in which deaf-mute people participated. For the participants, he wrote and directed "Flowers on the sidewalk". Between 2005-2011 he cooperated with independent artists, musicians, actors, dancers, filmmakers co-creating stage and film productions. In 2008, together with the Do-Teatr Group, he co-created "Aite" (choreography and dance). In 2021-2022, he led a year-long project of intensive butoh workshops – for the participants he wrote and directed the performance „Absolutely Nothing’. He regularly conducts workshops in Poland and also in Germany Scotland and Spain.