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 well know 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.
You will be guided on a journey of exercises that heighten your consciousness of the space between and beyond. You should consider the surface of the body, the skin as a sensory organ and as a kind of membrane or boundary between inside and outside of the body. From there we will work with our relationship to imagery. It is a chance that you can set aside any emotional judgment and to manifest images in physical details. All welcome
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