“Vast empty space and innumerable splendour qualities”
When we encounter masterpieces of ink painting, Haiku poetry, Noh theatre, or Butoh, what moves us is not only the objects, words, or dancers, but the presence of vast empty space. This empty space is vibrant, alive, and filled with innumerable qualities that continuously emerge and vanish. This is not only a characteristic of local Japanese culture, but rather a way of revealing a more universal reality of existence through art.
Our everyday life passes, eating, working, or dancing, within a limited cage, burying enormously rich nature within each of us. Education, traditions, or even learned movement techniques could mould kind of cages. Yet when we observe a forest under the open sky, the diversity of forms, textures, and movements - plants, flowers, trees, stones, or wind - reveals an overwhelming richness.
This workshop is an invitation to explore and encounter the sky and the forest within the body-mind, discovering unlimited movements and textures within us, and transforming the personal journey into a universal poem.
* The workshop is addressed to both professional artists from any discipline as well as non professionals without any experience, whoever is interested in the principles of body-mind-space that underlie any kind of creation.
First two weeks: Basic trainings
Last two weeks: Creation of solo performances
Date: 3rd August - 28th August 2026 for the workshop
Mon - Fri 9:30 - 15:30 (1hour lunch break); 24th - 28th: 9:00 - 14:45
August 29th & 30th for the performance
Registration: info@motoyakondo.com
Contents:
① Whitening (Returning to a neutral body-mind)
– Body scanning
– Space expansion
– Stillness & movement
– Deconstruction of time
② Basic movement principles
– Standing
– Walking
– Twisting
– Standing up and sinking down
– Creation of body parts (hands & arms, torso, feet & legs, face)
– Exploring external anatomy and movement principles
– Exploring contemplative anatomy and movement principles
– Connecting breath and movement
③ Metamorphosis (Discovering the unlimited diversity of the body-mind)
– Embodying textures of materials
– Embodying sounds
– Embodying images (paintings, video art, natural elements)
④ Creating a performance
– Inner process of building a performance
– Relationship with music, objects, and costumes
– Entering the space and disappearing from the space
– Trajectory in the space
– Structured improvisation
Fee:
Full participation: 1200euro (1100euro for the early registration by 30th June)
1 week participation : 300euro
2 weeks participation: 600euro
Full participation is limited to 14people
About Motoya Kondo:
Born in Nagoya Japan, choreographer, dancer, and co-founder of Motimaru Dance Company. From 2005 he had been studying butoh with Yoshito Ohno, son of Kazuo Ohno and worked as his assistant. After 2010 he has started field work researches of local and traditional dances in Japan, India, Nepal, Spain, and Bali, studied Balinese dance with Agun Anom Putra, I Made Djimat, and Ida Bagus Oka Wirjana, in search of universal principle of movements and dance. Since 2008, he has been immersed in the practice and study of Eastern contemplative traditions, particularly following the Tibetan traditions, and bridging between contemporary art practices and the age old wisdom. He has been performing and teaching in: Venezia Biennale 2010, 9th International Choreography Competition "No Ballet”, International Dance Festival Lucky Trimmer 2016, Hildesheim University, Leipzig University, Hasselt University, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, etc., Europe, Asia, Australia in over 50 cities.
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