What is Elemental | MOVE & SOUND WORKSHOP in NATURE | butoh dance+somatic expressive arts+live music

Name: What is Elemental | MOVE & SOUND WORKSHOP in NATURE | butoh dance+somatic expressive arts+live music
Start: 2025-09-05T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-07T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Biała Chata

Schedule

Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Sun, 07 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Biała Chata | Krakow, MA

Movement & Sound WORKSHOP in NATURE.
WHAT IS ELEMENTAL.
With Min Yoon (KR/USA) and Wieland Möller (DE)
Butoh Dance and Somatic Expressive Arts | Music Improvisation | Transformation | Nature
DATE: 5(Friday) -7(Sunday) SEPTEMBER 2025
LOCATION: Biała Chata - POLAND
/// 1 hour inland from Kraków
bordering Poland, Slovakia, Czechia
PROGRAM:
OPENING PERFORMANCE
>>> FRIDAY / 7pm
WORKSHOP
>>>SATURDAY / 10am - 6pm
>>>SUNDAY / 10am - 5pm
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/vvc66kfx
The Polish-language version will be available next week.
Limited number of participants - 12!
Contact: Biała Chata - +48602128127 [email protected]
Costs:
>>> 12 h workshops + 2x lunch + 2x dinner (maximum 12 participants)
- 250-325 euro / 1066 - 1350 pln
--- please write for limited lower fee spots if you are in need.
>>> 1 night accommodation + breakfast- 25 euro / 100 pln (maximum 10 sleeping places in 5 beds rooms in Biała Chata)
>>> Opening Performance Ticket- 15 euro / 60 pln (free for workshops participants)

nature as a rest stop
nature as long time
nature that Will, not rest
nature as philosophy
nature as mirror for the nature within
avant-garde life/art prayers
in the attempts to be in the natural / modern worlds

Fire. Water. Earth. Air. Space.
The five elements — present in all of nature, including the nature of us — alive 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.
This workshop explores the transformative power of the elements through movement and sound. In the two 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 live music of percussions, gong, and electronics by Wieland Möller. The musical instruments themselves were designed around the elements.
Min and Wieland have been performing and remixing with --- butoh dance, somatic therapy, process work (dream body, relationships, and resolving tension), and sound-based improvisation. Their collaboration creates a space for personal and collective inquiry — where the elements, movements, and sounds become metaphors for artistic exploration and emotional transformation. The movement scores will be inspired by long form evolution, repetition, and changes in the body from Min’s dance research, as well as fusing with JINEN butoh nature practices of butoh master, Atsushi Takenouchi that bring together the personal and universal senses of nature.
Arrive with a specific element you'd like to start to work with — for example, one you feel disconnected from or overwhelmed by. Through the body and voice, we’ll give it shape, rhythm, and expression, allowing it to shift and integrate.
We ask, we dance - what is elemental for us now?
You’re warmly invited to dance and be deep and shallow, in a temporary community with nature.
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.
Date: 5-7 September 2025
Location: Biała Chata, 34-146 Stryszów 189, Poland, www.bialachata.pl
(40 km south from Balice Cracow Airport)
Languages: English with some Polish translation as needed
To register submit the form:
https://forms.gle/gX4QSN9oBLA6oWGM8
Contact: Biała Chata - +48602128127 [email protected]

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About the Artists / Teachers:
Min Yoon tr. Citizen Truth
dancetotheedge.com
instagram.com/dancetotheedge
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.
Recent works switch between listening to their own body and the bodies of others. Their current solo work dancing-being-in-time depicts loops of movements, vocal tremors, and memories, with the body as an archive of pain, states, and transformation. In dancing with violence, they researched the bodily memories of violence of another dancer to create an auditory theater piece that invites the listeners to move and lightly embody the experiences poetically. In solo dance works, they connect conflicts within the body to archetypes and collective experiences, such as the Joker archetype and feelings of remorse at the edge of revenge, and comfort women (forced prostitutes of the Japanese army) as an older archetype engaging with the #metoo movement. In their choreographic experiments, they question how bodies respond and move together in groups, how we may find instinctual ways to move together beyond how our bodies were trained.
In Germany, Min danced at Dock11, Hošek Contemporary Gallery, Oyoun, ZK/U, Petersburg Arts Space, Trauma Bar und Kino (in residency), Kühlspot Social Club, p7 Gallery, Haus der Statistik, and 4fürtanz (leipzig). In the U.S. Min danced at CounterPulse (sf), Headwaters Theater (pdx), ProArts Gallery (sf), Highways Performance Space (la), Epic Immersive (sf). Min also dances in the streets and many underground community spaces as well as in churches and a temple devoted to Minerva in Italy.
Min’s performances and social art works have been funded by NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (npn) in Germany, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, The City of Oakland, The Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, with other artist residencies and grants. Min has also been a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U Berlin) and an artcorps scholar at the Tamalpa Institute founded by Daria and Anna Halprin.
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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. He recently completed a new Masters degree at the Musikhochschule Dresden on the connection of sound and movement, especially on the physicality of playing an instrument into extended movements and performative qualities. 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.
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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Testimonials for Min’s teaching / holding space:
Movers from the US shared that this workshop shared poetic and imaginative ways of moving with nature metaphors, that can be expansive, deep, and fun. They can feel the older practices for dance and meditation being evolved to integrate our contemporary lives of info, public media, and closeness and farness of what happens around the world~~~ for example, in being curious about our relationships to phones and dancing what is realistic, unrealistic, hyperexaggerated, theatrical, and subtle in our lives when we are alone, online, and together. Movers also found it compelling to dig and research into their own patterns and cycles, and find the different ingredients that would allow them to compost. In the workshop, nonverbal ways of communicating can allow for subconscious and emotions and ways of relating to emerge and bodies could feel, explore, and research in the temporary community.
“I was surprised, touched, and carried through this experience, within the gentle, fluid container that Min created for us. I found new parts of myself and reconnected with old ones, stripping away the facade of who I wanted others to see and revealing the parts of me that have always tried to hide. I will forever remember this experience, which has opened doors for me as to what movement can look like and be.” - Jen
“Min facilitated sessions which included written reflections, storytelling, expressive movement, movement based in imagery and imagination, interview-type conversations, and drawing. The range of activities meant that an idea seeded in one area could move to another, and another, and eventually become something very different in form, yet connected in concept, to the initial inspiration. This experience, guided and supported by Min, invited (but never forced) me into the depths of memory and psyche, alternative movement pathways, and new perspectives. I experienced emotional opening and relief as a result of working with Min and a shift in how I related to old stories about my life and my body. The research felt important to my healing process and also empowered me to show up differently– more aware, present, and understanding– in my relationships. While no two sessions were alike, I always felt held in the patient and loving container that Min created.” - Nicola