Butoh Performance Workshop

PIArtButoh is thrilled to present the 1st South Florida International Butoh Festival. Supported by South Florida's leading galleries, museums, theaters, the festival will feature a series of Butoh programs, including expressive workshops, transformative photography and video exhibitions, enlightening seminars and enchanting performances. These programs welcome art enthusiasts, artists, and anyone with an innovative spirit.

In Pinar Isik Sinka’s workshop participants will have an opportunity to learn about Japanese Avant-garde dance theater, Improvisational Post-Butoh; the philosophy and method of Post Butoh Space Dance.

Pinar Sinka encourages participants to develop body awareness, establish a connection between the body and space, and create their own dance narratives through Butoh techniques. Dance experience is not required!

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Pinar Isik Sinka is a South Florida based, Butoh performer, visual artist, curator of Tokyo Space Dance has been trained by Japanese Butoh masters Yukio Waguri, Yoshito Ohno, Tetsuro Fukuhara, and other celebrated Butoh performers in Japan and Malaysia. She established the first Butoh organization PIArtButoh in South Florida.

*Butoh is "Sincere Step", "Self-Realization" through the body of individual, direct and original dance technique.

Butoh is an avant-garde art form of theatrical dance that emerged in Japan in the late 1950s, influenced by Kabuki, Noh theater, surrealism, German expressionism, neo-dada, French mime techniques, and French, and European literature. “Ankoku Butoh” means “Dance of Utter Darkness”. Developed by Tatsumi Hijikata and Ohno Kazuo, in collaboration with other artists such as Yoshito Ohno, Akira Kasai and others. Butoh has two styles, one is choreographic “Butoh with Darkness”, other is “Improvisation Butoh”. Tetsuro Fukuhara belongs to “Improvisation Butoh” as the second generation. He carry on Butoh as “Space Dance Butoh”.

Now, Butoh is one of the major art forms as the cultural scenes not only in Europe and America but also in Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. We can find many Foreign Butoh Dancers and Choreographers in the world. This gave rise to the "International Butoh".

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