Dates:
Dates: 17th-18th October 2026
Time: 10h-17h (including lunch break)
Venue:
EDEN***** Studio 150.1, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin
Fee: 200€
Contact&booking: bookforbutoh@gmail.com
“Materiality”
In this workshop, we explore how Butoh uses material substances as particular Imagery through which to objectify and transform the body. For example. ‘walk as smoke’ or ‘pillar of ash’ standing, walking and falling as ash. It is not a case of miming in a way that signifies ‘smoke’ or ‘ash’ but be involved in a transformational process that altered our existence on stage.
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