Dates:
Dates: 20th-21st June 2026
Time: 10h-17h (including lunch break)
Venue:
EDEN***** Studio 150.1, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin
Fee: 200€
Contact&booking: bookforbutoh@gmail.com
“Imagery in Butoh”
Butoh is known for using transformational imagery in a very particular way. Perhaps all dance and movement work makes use of imagery in some way, but there is something distinctive about Butoh`s use of language and its way of working with that language.
In Butoh, the body develops a highly attuned physical sensitivity leading to a deep awareness of each moment.
You will be guided on a journey of exercises that heighten your
consciousness of the space between and beyond. We will dance the surface of the body, the skin, as a sensory organ. A permeable membrane between inner and outer. Nerves can become hyper receptors for words and images.
From there we will work with our relationship to imagery or text.
You will be also introduced some of the Butoh Fu (notations) to work with.
It is a chance that you can set aside any emotional judgment and to manifest images in physical details. By exploring the possibilities and diversity of Butoh, this workshop will help individuals to find their dance and personal expression.
The workshop will be given in English.
Natsuko Kono
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 2024, TRA 2025 and more.
Invited for Butoh workshops held in France, Switzerland, Italy, England, Ireland, 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