BUTOH – EMBODIMENT (standing, walking, dancing) – workshop in Berlin

Name: BUTOH – EMBODIMENT (standing, walking, dancing) – workshop in Berlin
Start: 2024-06-15T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-16T17:00:00+01:00
Location: DOCK 11

Schedule

Sat Jun 15 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun Jun 16 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

DOCK 11 | Berlin, BE

Join us on June 15-16, 2024 for an intensive weekend dance workshop BUTOH – EMBODIMENT (standing, walking, dancing) at Dock11 in Berlin!
Leading: Kokoro - Krzysztof Jerzak (https://www.facebook.com/KokoroKJ)
We start each workshop session by delving into the body - into the experiencing of the body, feeling the body, being the body. To achieve embodied presence, we use body-oriented meditation techniques and physical exercises.
Once in the embodied state, we explore different activities: standing, walking, dancing. What is a standing position? How to take a step and walk? What is dance/movement?
Starting with basic activities, we gradually open up to the possibility of unleashing spontaneous creation and authentic expression. Moving forward, we go through various butoh transformations to explore changes in the quality of the body and the depth of the mind's potentials.
Delving into a state of embodied presence helps dissolve the fixedness of our conceptual self. In this experience, the resistance to spontaneous being in the present moment diminishes and may disappear. It is entering into the state of 'don't know', which opens the gate to deep transformations and the release of the body-mind.
The weekend workshop are aimed at those interested in deepening and expanding body-mind awareness. It is aimed at beginners and those advanced in butoh practice, as well as at people who are looking for authentic movement experience and attentive presence in the body, and in relation to others. It will be useful for dancers, performers, actors, and people who practice martial arts, yoga, etc., as well as those interested in therapy through the body.
BUTOH
Japanese “modern” dance was created in the 1950s as a result of a search for new forms of expression. Its creators, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, negated both their own tradition (Kabuki, Bunraku, Nō) and “opposed” mass culture of the West.
In Butoh dance the body becomes a text, a record of human experience discovered through movement. Butoh creates space for direct and total self-expression.
DATE AND HOURS
June 15-16, 2024
Saturday and Sunday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (including one hour break)
LOCATION
Dock11
Kastanienallee 79
10435 Berlin
(studio number 2)
FEE
- 150 €
* Reservation of participation upon payment of an advance of 50 € by June 7.
* The bank account number for advance payment will be sent to you afrer e-mail registering.
* In case of cancellation less than 7 days before the workshop, the advance payment will not be returned.
REGISTRATION
email: [email protected]
Further information will be provided upon registration.
ADDITIONAL INFO
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/KokoroKJ/
LEADING
Krzysztof Jerzak is a butoh dancer, choreographer and aikidoka. He began his aikido trening in 1987 and between 2003-2020 taught regular aikido classes. He holds the 4th dan master degree and was the founder and teacher of Kobayashi Hirokazu Aikido Academy in Cracow, Poland.
In 1999 he started learning Japanese butoh dance. He studied with Daisuke Yoshimoto, Itto Morita, Atsushi Takenouchi, Imre Thormann, Katsura Kan and others.
His solo performances include: "Honest?" (2002), "Beyond" (2005), "Straw-butoh" (2009), "Sharing (Yourself)" (2019), "Words, Words, Words..." (2019), "Hana no Michi" – The Way of Flowers (2020), "Mirror" (2023).
In 2004, he led a year-long project called "Integration in Dance Therapy", in which deaf-mute people participated. For the participants, he wrote and directed "Flowers on the sidewalk". Between 2005-2011 he cooperated with independent artists, musicians, actors, dancers, filmmakers co-creating stage and film productions. In 2008, together with the Do-Teatr Group, he co-created "Aite" (choreography and dance). In 2021-2022, he led a year-long project of intensive butoh workshops – for the participants he wrote and directed the performance „Absolutely Nothing’. He offers workshops on regular basis.