Dates: August 4th–31st, 2025 | DOCK 11, Saal 3, Berlin
Schedule & Participation:
Monday–Friday | 9:00 – 15:00 (1-hour lunch break)
Final Solo Performances: August 30th & 31st
Full participation is limited to 14 people.
Partial participation (the first 1 or 2 weeks) is possible.
Fees & Registration:
Full workshop: €1080
Early registration (before June 30th): €980
2weeks: €600
For more information & registration:
Website: motoyakondo.com
E-Mail: info@motoyakondo.com
Instagram: motoya.kondo
1-Month Butoh Workshop & Performance Creation
"Exploring the infinite vibrancy within stillness, transforming personal experience into a poetry of existence."
When we encounter a masterpiece of ink painting, Haiku poetry, Noh theatre, or Butoh, it is not just the objects, words, or dancers that captivate us—it is the presence of the vast empty space behind them. From this empty space, an infinite vibrancy emerges, revealing countless ephemeral qualities.
This is not merely an aspect of Japanese culture; it is a universal truth of existence, manifesting through art.
Our everyday life passes within a limited cage—constructed by routines, education, and even artistic training—burying the enormously rich nature within us. Yet, when we observe a forest under the open sky, we are astonished by the endless diversity of forms, textures, and rhythms of flowers, plants, stones, and wind...
This is an invitation to discover the sky and the forest within our own body-mind—to awaken infinite movement, textures, and sensations, and to transform the personal journey into a moving poem.
*The workshop is open to both professional performers and complete beginners, anyone interested in the fundamental relationship between body, mind, and space that underlies all forms of artistic creation.
Workshop Content:
① Whitening (returning to a neutral body-mind, preparing the body as an objective object)
- Body-scanning
- Expanding spatial awareness
- Deconstructing the concept of time
② Basic Movement Principles
- Standing
- Walking
- Twisting
- Rising and sinking
- Details of the body parts (hands & arms, torso, feet & legs, head & face)
- External anatomy
- Contemplative anatomy
- Breath and movement
③ Metamorphosis (discovering the diversity of the qualities of the body-mind)
- Embodying physical materials
- Embodying sounds
- Embodying images (paintings, video arts, elements of nature)
④ Performance Creation
- The internal process of performance-making
- Relationships with music, objects, and costumes
- Appearing in space, disappearing from space
- Trajectories in space
- Structured and unstructured improvisation
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