The theme of this workshop is: The Body in Space
A two-day workshop (4hours/day) exploring Butoh fundamentals, movement research, and the role of imagination in shaping physical qualities. We will investigate how spatial awareness and proxemics influence presence and meaning, working with distance, orientation, and positioning in the performative space and in relation with the audience.
About this Workshop Series
We are happy to present this workshop series exploring the enigmatic art of Butoh with Stefano Taiuti. These workshops run regularly at Daruma, and will each be accompanied by a performance piece. As Butoh is a practice that takes some time to discover and understand we hope that we can build a group of regular participants over the course of the year, perhaps eventually leading to some creative group projects.
“The Spiritual Mechanism” is a unique approach to dance and self discovery that integrates western movement analyses focusing on the visible, and Butoh to explore the invisible, the subtle, what is behind the movement and generates it.
The workshops are modular, with each session exploring a particular aspect or quality of movement through three parts:
Warm up and stretching
Movement exploration and butoh basics
Dance by images
The workshop runs from 2pm - 6pm on both Saturday and Sunday (please ignore the times given on the booking system).
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Stefano Taiuti is a performance artist, Butoh dancer and body worker.
Throughout over 30 years Stefano explored the body in motion as an expressive tool, studying with internationally renowned Mime teachers and Butoh masters and thus developing his own methodology. “The Spiritual Mechanism” is a unique approach to dance and self discovery that integrates western movement analyses focusing on the visible, and Butoh to explore the invisible, the subtle, what is behind the movement and generates it.
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Butoh, (in)famously, defies description. It it often reduced only to an examination of the striking imagery it sometimes produces (grotesque contortions, stark white make-up etc.), but the heart of Butoh is in the process. Butoh presents an exploratory series of tools for finding the body, and learning to be in control of losing control. It is a practice that, fundamentally, asks us to fully confront ourselves as inseperable from our ailing bodies and the universe they bleed and dissolve into.
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Anyone and everyone. You don’t need any dance experience, nor do you need any particular level of physical fitness, flexibility, or strength to participate.
However, the workshop will include elements of physical training such as stretching & conditioning, as well as movement exploration and dance by internal landscapes.
