Dates:
Dates: 20th&21st February 2027
Time: 10h-17h (including lunch break)
Venue:
EDEN***** Studio 150.2, Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin
Fee: 200€
Contact&booking: bookforbutoh@gmail.com
The quality of movement and presence originate from our sensitivity, physical and emotional experiences. We tap into our own history and memories held in our bodies. You will be guided on a journey of the butoh-based training repertoire to ‘sensitize' the performer in very specific ways. It trains the perspective and listening ability as much as it trains the physical body.
By listening to the more unconscious responses in the sensitive bod-mind, performers gain access to broader range of materials and start to move beyond a habitual use of the body, the movement reaction comes from a deeper place within.
All welcome
The workshop will be given in English.
Natsuko Kono
Butoh Dancer, Choreographer and Teacher.
Natsuko Kono was born and raised in Kobe, Japan. She studied Performing Arts and Dance at Birkbeck, University of London.
She has worked with Butoh artists Yumiko Yoshioka, Katsura Kan and Tadashi Endo, performing in their dance productions and in an opera directed by Doris Dörrie.
As a solo artist, Natsuko has performed internationally at the Paris Butoh Festival, Dublin Butoh Festival, Moving Bodies Festival, Sommerwerft Frankfurt International Theatre Festival 2024, Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni 2025 and International Literature Festival Berlin 2026, among others.
She has been invited to lead Butoh workshops in France, Switzerland, Italy, England, Ireland, Scotland, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Romania and Japan, as well as at BIG Butoh International Gathering 2024 and miniBIG 2026.
Since 2015, she has performed Anna Homler’s Breadwoman at music festivals across Europe.
Natsuko has lived and worked between Berlin and Rügen since 2015. In 2016, she founded Butoh Initiative, a long-term project dedicated to Butoh training and practice.