Thursday | Torstai 24.10.
10 - 12 am | klo 10 - 12
Butoh workshop
Instructor | Ohjaaja: Ken Mai
Venue | Paikka: Zodiak studio C4, Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu 1B
This workshop is specially designed for the festival, and is open to all experienced and inexperienced people, and there are no age restrictions.
It is a guidance prepared to simply face the body, observe, discover, and enhance your senses and creativity. The simple yet difficult moments of collision may give you the opportunity to discover your own dance. I hope you will touch your true self without fear. Your physical movements and your presence will bring light and transmute the darkness. The healing aspects may also heal you and bring out purity and love hidden within.
For me, Butoh is life itself, and I feel that it is about touching the soul and engaging the consciousness in the universal realm. For the past many years, I was born, entered society, encountered the body and art, after practicing in gymnastics, martial arts, rock drums, theater, modern dance, shiatsu, zen and yoga in India, I met Kazuo Ohno and started Butoh. I have tried to cherish the present as the dance of life, from the past to the future, but the body and the universe itself are always living in a state of destruction and regeneration of flow. I feel that these phenomena live with Butoh. And it goes without saying that the experience of coming into contact with people and cultures from over 40 countries has certainly liberated my own consciousness and bound mind. I am grateful for this opportunity.