WHAT IS ELEMENTAL | butoh movement+sound workshop in nature
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WHAT IS ELEMENTAL.
Pulses of the elements — around us, within us.
movement + sound + art/life performance workshop in nature
"...an artistic retreat in Nature mountain home studio at Biała Chata... "
With visiting artists / teachers:
Min Yoon (KR/USA/DE) - butoh dance + somatic expressive arts
Wieland Möller (DE) - music + improvisation techniques
Hosted by Biała Chata artists:
Barbara Malinka-Szymańska + Konrad Szymański + ..and all Participants.
SAVE THE DATE:
24 - 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 | Immersive Weekend Workshop
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 | 6-9pm | Performances by Min Yoon + Wieland Möller + Konrad Szymański
LOCATION: Biała CHATA - POLAND | bialachata.pl
/// 1 hour from Kraków /// bordering Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Biała CHATA is a creative sanctuary for events, connection, nourishing food, and time in nature.
To register and with logistical questions: [email protected]
With content questions: [email protected]
~~~
ABOUT ELEMENTAL / THE WORKSHOP:
Underneath the skin of the earth.
Between the bones of the land.
Dance with the inner and outer Nature.
Explore the dialogue between the self internal and eternal, the body in nature, and the body as nature. In times of fragmentation and overwhelm, you are invited to dance with the complexities and find release in landscapes that hold. Through ancient and contemporary practices with movement, sound, imagination, we listen, compose, compost, and expand.
This workshop explores the transformative power of the elements through movement and sound. In the three days, we will start with relaxing, releasing, and activating movements, building into dances that are physical and internal inspired by the imagination of nature, and methods of butoh dance, process work, somatic expressive arts. We will dance indoors and outdoors in the beautiful nature spaces, to the beautiful live music with percussions, gong, and electronics by Wieland Möller. The musical instruments themselves were designed inspired by nature elements.
The five elements — present in all of nature, including the nature of us — live in balance/disbalance in our bodies, emotions, and relationships. They shape how we connect and communicate to ourselves, to each other, and to the world around us. In many cultures and ancient practices, these elements form the foundation of both healing and artistic practices. They weather us into more parts of ourselves becoming, into All.
We dance imaginative, inspired, expansive, nuanced, surreal, and new senses in our body and the group body with nature metaphors, and to dance and reflect with the cycles of life, with our personal memories and the public media that remind us of grief and beauty in a temporary community space of the workshop. We look for new mixes, release, pleasurable confrontations, and processes.
What to Expect:
• Movement sessions inspired by butoh and nature-based practices - from ancient and contemporary
• Music explorations to awaken inner landscapes
• Elemental somatic work: exploring how earth, water, fire, air, and space live, communicate, fight, love within us
• Guided improvisation and intuitive expression
• Solo, partner, and group exercises
• Integration in dialogue with the natural surroundings of Biała Chata
This is a space for all bodies — movers, musicians, curious beings — with or without prior experience. Bring comfortable clothes, water, and optionally a musical instrument.
~~~
WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS:
/// Workshop Pass • € 290–450
Suggested contribution: € 370
20 hours of workshops with live music • Performance ticket • 5 vege meals (Fri–Sun)
/// Accommodation (optional) • €25 per night
Biała Chata • 10 beds in cabin on nature site
+++ Full Weekend • €365–525
Thursday 7 PM – Sunday 3 PM •Workshops • Performances • Meals • Accommodation
Sliding scale: IT depends on You what is the exchange amount. If You can share more, then IT goes for Artists and Art Support. And same if You can exchange less and are deeply interested in workshops and staying in nature then please contact us directly. THANK YOU !!!
~~~
PROGRAM:
THURSDAY 24.09
from 3pm arrival and accommodation time
7pm - 9pm Welcome dinner time with fire and talks
FRIDAY - 25.09
WHAT IS ELEMENTAL. - WORKSHOPS IN NATURE
with Min Yoon and Wieland Möller
9am - 12pm movement and sound workshops
12 - 1:30pm lunch time
1:30 - 4pm movement and sound workshops
4pm - 6pm break and dinner time
6pm - 9pm PERFORMANCE in NATURE
PULSOWANIE ŻYWIOŁÓW - PERFORMANCE - THEATER IN NATURE
performing: Min Yoon and Wieland Möller - butoh and drums improvisation
Konrad Szymański and Wieland Möller - movement, sound and drums improvisation
…and more !
SATURDAY - 26.09
WHAT IS ELEMENTAL. - WORKSHOPS IN NATURE
with Min Yoon and Wieland Möller
9am - 1pm movement and sound workshops
1pm - 3pm lunch time
3pm - 7pm movement and sound workshops
7pm - 9pm late dinner time jam with fire and talks
SUNDAY - 27.09
9am - 12pm closing workshops, presentations, dinner and talks
12 - 12:30pm short lunch and snacks to take away on travel
12:30 - 3pm ritual performance and closing
REGISTRATION
Please email:
[email protected]
~~~
ABOUT THE ARTISTS / TEACHERS:
MIN YOON is a post/butoh artist, somatic movement therapist / educator, based in Berlin, performing and sharing internationally. With butoh dance, vocals, and conflict studies, Min makes intimate, surreal, and psychosomatic performances and experiences of heightened relational emotions, permission for depths, and the emergent new. Min dances difficult truths beyond language through plurality of perspectives, unintentional movements within stillness and impulsive improvisation, and archetypes. Their dance collages intense imagery and physicality, stillness, and ritual.
As a teacher, They explore how we can find new ways of moving, both individually and together - with a focus on how one and many bodies move through polarity, tension, and transformation. Min leads philosophical, embodied, imaginative, and emotional scores with the individual and group body, focusing on processing what is dark or difficult with the arts and the body, with butoh, post/butoh, process-oriented psychology ("Process Work"), nature imagery, and somatic therapy methods.
Min has lectured and taught internationally, including at universities, non-profit and for-profit organizations, arts theaters and institutions, and communities—among them the Process Work Center of Hawai'i, the Felt Sense Conference, Zazen, the HeadwatersTheater, and a center for mental rehabilitation in Finland.
As an artist, Min's artworks have been funded by institutions such as the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK (npn) in Germany, the German Dance Association (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland), Musikfonds, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, the City of Oakland, the Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, as well as through artist residencies and grants. Min was also a fellow at the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U Berlin) and an Artcorps fellow at the Tamalpa Institute, founded by Daria and Anna Halprin. With a grant, Min was invited to the Process Work Institute to connect Butoh dance with global conflicts.
dancetotheedge.com | instagram.com/dancetotheedge
+++
Wieland Möller is an experienced performer based in Berlin with movement and sound for over 20 years in the fields of jazz, improvised music, and contemporary dance. His recent solo performance work brings this research together with the topic of perception and awareness of different spaces. He is fascinated by making sounds visual and motions audible.
He studied at the Rotterdams Conservatory, Rhythmic Conservatory Copenhagen and Berklee College of Music and in New York. He has been a scholar of the Berklee College of Music, Goethe Institution Germany, and GVL. Wieland is the founder of the Akvariet Trio. He has performed at the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, Jazz International Rotterdam Festival and among others, and has toured Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Iceland. His Masters degree at the Musikhochschule Dresden connects sound, movement, and space anew, especially on the physicality of playing an instrument into extended movements and performative qualities.
Being a performing musician and composer, Wieland Möller has been involved in dance and theater projects and performances, among others at the Biennale Berlin 2018, Junge Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gripstheatre, Reykjavik Dance Festival and Prague Dance Festival. He has worked with Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Markus Stockhausen, Klaas Hekman, Tobias Delius, Julyen Hamilton, Ingo Reulecke, Okwui Okpokwasili and other collaborators.
wielandmoeller.com
Pulses of the elements — around us, within us.
movement + sound + art/life performance workshop in nature
"...an artistic retreat in Nature mountain home studio at Biała Chata... "
With visiting artists / teachers:
Min Yoon (KR/USA/DE) - butoh dance + somatic expressive arts
Wieland Möller (DE) - music + improvisation techniques
Hosted by Biała Chata artists:
Barbara Malinka-Szymańska + Konrad Szymański + ..and all Participants.
SAVE THE DATE:
24 - 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 | Immersive Weekend Workshop
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 | 6-9pm | Performances by Min Yoon + Wieland Möller + Konrad Szymański
LOCATION: Biała CHATA - POLAND | bialachata.pl
/// 1 hour from Kraków /// bordering Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Biała CHATA is a creative sanctuary for events, connection, nourishing food, and time in nature.
To register and with logistical questions: [email protected]
With content questions: [email protected]
~~~
ABOUT ELEMENTAL / THE WORKSHOP:
Underneath the skin of the earth.
Between the bones of the land.
Dance with the inner and outer Nature.
Explore the dialogue between the self internal and eternal, the body in nature, and the body as nature. In times of fragmentation and overwhelm, you are invited to dance with the complexities and find release in landscapes that hold. Through ancient and contemporary practices with movement, sound, imagination, we listen, compose, compost, and expand.
This workshop explores the transformative power of the elements through movement and sound. In the three days, we will start with relaxing, releasing, and activating movements, building into dances that are physical and internal inspired by the imagination of nature, and methods of butoh dance, process work, somatic expressive arts. We will dance indoors and outdoors in the beautiful nature spaces, to the beautiful live music with percussions, gong, and electronics by Wieland Möller. The musical instruments themselves were designed inspired by nature elements.
The five elements — present in all of nature, including the nature of us — live in balance/disbalance in our bodies, emotions, and relationships. They shape how we connect and communicate to ourselves, to each other, and to the world around us. In many cultures and ancient practices, these elements form the foundation of both healing and artistic practices. They weather us into more parts of ourselves becoming, into All.
We dance imaginative, inspired, expansive, nuanced, surreal, and new senses in our body and the group body with nature metaphors, and to dance and reflect with the cycles of life, with our personal memories and the public media that remind us of grief and beauty in a temporary community space of the workshop. We look for new mixes, release, pleasurable confrontations, and processes.
What to Expect:
• Movement sessions inspired by butoh and nature-based practices - from ancient and contemporary
• Music explorations to awaken inner landscapes
• Elemental somatic work: exploring how earth, water, fire, air, and space live, communicate, fight, love within us
• Guided improvisation and intuitive expression
• Solo, partner, and group exercises
• Integration in dialogue with the natural surroundings of Biała Chata
This is a space for all bodies — movers, musicians, curious beings — with or without prior experience. Bring comfortable clothes, water, and optionally a musical instrument.
~~~
WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS:
/// Workshop Pass • € 290–450
Suggested contribution: € 370
20 hours of workshops with live music • Performance ticket • 5 vege meals (Fri–Sun)
/// Accommodation (optional) • €25 per night
Biała Chata • 10 beds in cabin on nature site
+++ Full Weekend • €365–525
Thursday 7 PM – Sunday 3 PM •Workshops • Performances • Meals • Accommodation
Sliding scale: IT depends on You what is the exchange amount. If You can share more, then IT goes for Artists and Art Support. And same if You can exchange less and are deeply interested in workshops and staying in nature then please contact us directly. THANK YOU !!!
~~~
PROGRAM:
THURSDAY 24.09
from 3pm arrival and accommodation time
7pm - 9pm Welcome dinner time with fire and talks
FRIDAY - 25.09
WHAT IS ELEMENTAL. - WORKSHOPS IN NATURE
with Min Yoon and Wieland Möller
9am - 12pm movement and sound workshops
12 - 1:30pm lunch time
1:30 - 4pm movement and sound workshops
4pm - 6pm break and dinner time
6pm - 9pm PERFORMANCE in NATURE
PULSOWANIE ŻYWIOŁÓW - PERFORMANCE - THEATER IN NATURE
performing: Min Yoon and Wieland Möller - butoh and drums improvisation
Konrad Szymański and Wieland Möller - movement, sound and drums improvisation
…and more !
SATURDAY - 26.09
WHAT IS ELEMENTAL. - WORKSHOPS IN NATURE
with Min Yoon and Wieland Möller
9am - 1pm movement and sound workshops
1pm - 3pm lunch time
3pm - 7pm movement and sound workshops
7pm - 9pm late dinner time jam with fire and talks
SUNDAY - 27.09
9am - 12pm closing workshops, presentations, dinner and talks
12 - 12:30pm short lunch and snacks to take away on travel
12:30 - 3pm ritual performance and closing
REGISTRATION
Please email:
[email protected]
~~~
ABOUT THE ARTISTS / TEACHERS:
MIN YOON is a post/butoh artist, somatic movement therapist / educator, based in Berlin, performing and sharing internationally. With butoh dance, vocals, and conflict studies, Min makes intimate, surreal, and psychosomatic performances and experiences of heightened relational emotions, permission for depths, and the emergent new. Min dances difficult truths beyond language through plurality of perspectives, unintentional movements within stillness and impulsive improvisation, and archetypes. Their dance collages intense imagery and physicality, stillness, and ritual.
As a teacher, They explore how we can find new ways of moving, both individually and together - with a focus on how one and many bodies move through polarity, tension, and transformation. Min leads philosophical, embodied, imaginative, and emotional scores with the individual and group body, focusing on processing what is dark or difficult with the arts and the body, with butoh, post/butoh, process-oriented psychology ("Process Work"), nature imagery, and somatic therapy methods.
Min has lectured and taught internationally, including at universities, non-profit and for-profit organizations, arts theaters and institutions, and communities—among them the Process Work Center of Hawai'i, the Felt Sense Conference, Zazen, the HeadwatersTheater, and a center for mental rehabilitation in Finland.
As an artist, Min's artworks have been funded by institutions such as the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK (npn) in Germany, the German Dance Association (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland), Musikfonds, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, the City of Oakland, the Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, as well as through artist residencies and grants. Min was also a fellow at the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U Berlin) and an Artcorps fellow at the Tamalpa Institute, founded by Daria and Anna Halprin. With a grant, Min was invited to the Process Work Institute to connect Butoh dance with global conflicts.
dancetotheedge.com | instagram.com/dancetotheedge
+++
Wieland Möller is an experienced performer based in Berlin with movement and sound for over 20 years in the fields of jazz, improvised music, and contemporary dance. His recent solo performance work brings this research together with the topic of perception and awareness of different spaces. He is fascinated by making sounds visual and motions audible.
He studied at the Rotterdams Conservatory, Rhythmic Conservatory Copenhagen and Berklee College of Music and in New York. He has been a scholar of the Berklee College of Music, Goethe Institution Germany, and GVL. Wieland is the founder of the Akvariet Trio. He has performed at the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, Jazz International Rotterdam Festival and among others, and has toured Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Iceland. His Masters degree at the Musikhochschule Dresden connects sound, movement, and space anew, especially on the physicality of playing an instrument into extended movements and performative qualities.
Being a performing musician and composer, Wieland Möller has been involved in dance and theater projects and performances, among others at the Biennale Berlin 2018, Junge Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gripstheatre, Reykjavik Dance Festival and Prague Dance Festival. He has worked with Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Markus Stockhausen, Klaas Hekman, Tobias Delius, Julyen Hamilton, Ingo Reulecke, Okwui Okpokwasili and other collaborators.
wielandmoeller.com
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