WAVES and PULSE - 5 day Butoh Performance Workshop

Name: WAVES and PULSE - 5 day Butoh Performance Workshop
Start: 2025-06-04T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-08T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Studio2 & Media Library for Dance and Theatre

Schedule

Wed, 04 Jun, 2025 at 01:00 pm to Sun, 08 Jun, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Studio2 & Media Library for Dance and Theatre | Berlin, BE

5 day Intensive Butoh Performance Workshop
"Waves and Pulse" with Yuko Kaseki
4 - 8 June 2025 13:00-18:00
(WS presentation on 8 June at 18:00)
@Studio 2, Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
360 Euro (330 Euro paid by April 30)
Info + Registration: [email protected]

My breath, my heartbeat, trace waves that reach far, far away,
Carried across vast distances to somewhere unknown.
Someone’s breath, someone’s heartbeat, bring my shape into being,
Revealing the outline of me in the space between.
the pressure of the air, its edges and distortions,
The pulse of the world, a flutter of excitement.
Listening closely, between the inner and outer realms,
Another pulse, another rhythm, drawing near.
Movement - by moving the body, we release the tension that has collected in the body, encourage a breakthrough, flow the water, and liberate the thoughts that keep spinning around.
Discover a dance that has never existed before, a freedom.
Dance is a prayer, a vibration that may reach somewhere beyond. The world is changed through the movement and being moved.
Find a dynamic curious cure - dance that is spiritually, bodily, and creatively healing, that encourages the power to receive and release, that transforms and liberates the unconscious into consciousness.
This workshop is open for all people who want to investigate and challenge their deeper selves and who have curiosity, courage, and desire to explore movement and expression through the performative body.
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Following Yuko Kaseki’s continuous research with various physical training methods such as Noguchi gymnastics, elements of Tai-Chi Dao-yin, Butoh methodology, Dance Improvisation, and Live Art, the workshop is aiming to develop original movement through body awareness, sensitivity, and also discover hidden dynamic energy.
Finding the core of our body (Tanden), which is our energy source, listening honestly to the variants of the Inner- and develop this in relation to the Outer-world, will be an ongoing focus point. Direct physical connection with the others and the space will stimulate and enhance physical imagination and help accumulate a vocabulary of movement and practical action.
Participants are encouraged to discover authentic movement of own Self from a deeper sense, through playful Improvisation with imagination of elements, essence of quality, gravity, scale, dimension, directionality... searching balance between both extremes of tense and release, silence and chaos, strong presence and disappearance... sharing personal experience of survival in the shape of movement becomes the main ingredient of a collective dance improvisation.
Bio:
Yuko Kaseki is director, choreographer, Butoh dancer, performance artist, improviser and teacher, based in Berlin. She teaches and performs in solo and ensemble pieces and improvisations through out 30 countries. These works are poetic and vivid images that incorporate the spirit of Butoh, performance and live art. Her performance aims to reflect the outsider’s existence.
www.cokaseki.com