Wandering Body

Name: Wandering Body
Start: 2026-03-28T00:30:00+11:00
End: 2026-03-30T07:30:00+11:00
Location: Temperance Hall

Schedule

Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 12:30 am to Mon, 30 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Temperance Hall | Melbourne, VI

WANDERING BODY
3 days Butoh Workshop
4 guides
March 28–30, 2026
Temperance Hall, Melbourne
We begin from wandering. From a state of receptivity where we can open our creativity and let the body’s wisdom join our dance. Wandering becomes the passage into the work.
Wandering body is a workshop to explore what it means to be in the body. How to decondition from our habitual ways of movement and to find the subtle impulses which animate our bodies and learn to let them guide our dance. We work with Butoh training methods to explore new ways of listening to the body and to unearth the creativity that is naturally resting within it.
In this workshop we will research how the wandering body moves beyond defences and learn to swim in deep waters. As we wander, the body begins to resonate with deeper layers of experience rather than staying on the surface of doing.
Using subtle movement conditioning, meditative awareness, image work and explorations into the subconscious body we open new possibilities and new orientations for dance to emerge. With structured training and exploration of technique we learn how to place these impulses into form and develop them without forcing.
Butoh training asks us to open the body and to awaken and liberate movement. Through this freedom we learn to liberate the creative potentials of life all around us.
This is a training for anyone and everyone, no dance or movement training necessary. We ask only that you come with an open mind, curiosity, and a readiness to practice.
Over three days of training we will learn
• to sense how breath, weight and impulse are continually shifting in the body
• to release control and allow movement to arise from sensation rather than intention
• somatic perception, meeting sensation, space and gravity as collaborators
• Noguchi Taiso conditioning to soften the body and awaken fluidity
• moving without fixing form, allowing dance to appear and dissolve
• co-body practice, shared timing and peripheral listening
• witnessing and being witnessed
• shaping improvisation into simple composition without forcing it
We hope you can make the time to join us, to dive into the foundation site of the body and to make room together for the dance to be born.
If you’re not able to commit for the full three days, two days is also possible. Please reach out to discuss further.

This workshop will be led by a group of guides from iLiminal Butoh Collective.
About iLiminal Butoh Collective
iLiminal is an international ensemble exploring perception, transformation, and the subconscious through the raw poetry of Butoh. Their work bridges performance and ritual, inviting participants into spaces of deep listening, shared presence, and embodied imagination. Through workshops, residencies, and performances, the collective creates experiences that honour impermanence, relational tension, and the shifting landscapes of the inner world.
Their approach is intuitive, inclusive and experimental, drawing from a variety of lineages and shared research to create evocative, dreamlike experiences that awaken the sense and speak to the hidden language of the body.
Prices - 380-430 (sliding scale)
Email us at [email protected] to reserve your placements.