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This Butoh and Bodyweather Workshop is a three hour practice to introduce and develop the the basic tenets, techniques and skills of Min Tanaka?s Bodyweather, and the Japanese dance form, Butoh.Experience the ontology and philosophic edge of Min Tanakas Bodyweather, juxtaposed with the sensuality and animalistic freedom of Butoh.
This workshop is open to all levels: from a dance professional to a person with two left feet, damaged knees, or an injured back. The work is consent based and as such free to enter and stop at anytime. This workshop is consent based trauma-informed, and a gender inclusive space.
The workshop is made up of the following six main elements:
1. MB and BODY CONNECT (Shintai Sesshoku)
A physical warm-up for the muscles, bones and joints. A body-mind connection process following the bodily chakra centres.
2. THE SELFISH MIRROR and the slow movement BISOKU
Two of Bodyweathers most powerful tools designed to develop movement confidence, control and a high self-expression.
3. BODYWEATHER VOICE (Breath Voice & Communication)
Here we develop balance and authenticity in our breathing, speaking and listening. Includes the, 'Butoh Death Breath'.
4. BODYWEATHER LABORATORY: Karada Tenki Kenky?shi
An Encyclopedia of techniques to expand ones movement vocabulary, kinaesthetic skills and psycho-physical awareness.
5. BUTOH and BUTOH FU (Images/Butoh choreographic structures)
Images and visualizations that directly affect the nervous system which are then expanded in stories and narrative flows.
6. THE JUNGLE
A performative ending to the process where all the above steps can be freely, and subjectively expressed and interpreted to re-enforce ones personal practice and development. It is a place
of summation, finalisation and letting go of that which has gone to welcome that which will come ?with great music and soundscapes :)
WORKSHOP EQUIREMENTS
Note Book/Journal/Paper and pen.
Loose Training clothing
bare feet / socks / Training shoes (depending on the studio)
Water bottle
TIMING
Please be on time.
THE TEACHER
Stuart Lynch is a Theatre Director, Writer, Performer and an accredited coach in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Lynch was a professional Butoh Dancer and Educator throughout the 90s. He was educated at the source in Japan and was a student and dancer with Japanese Butoh Dancer and actor, Min Tanaka (Tanaka both developed Bodyweather and studied with Butoh founder, Tatsumi Hijikata). Lynch has led Dance Theatre Companies in Australia and Denmark and his last major show, ?Dreyer, Den Danske Tyran? opened the 2012 Copenhagen International Film Festival.
He has written several plays and books and his last written work, ?Thirty-Six Monologues? was published at Literaturhaus in February 2024, and his latest play, ?Caravaggios Egg? will premiere in Spring 2025.
From 2013 to 2023 Lynch was the headmaster of the Copenhagen Film and Theatre School where he taught Movement, Voice, Physical Theatre and Drama. Currently he is Artist in Residence at the Copenhagen House of Literature, Literaturhaus and will premiere his new dance theatre concert work, ?Oblivion? at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium in November 2024.
?The physiological and psychological connection of the body to the environment is intimately connected with one?s state of mind. This connection is radically affected when stressed or pressured or when damaged by past trauma or fears for the future. Min Tanakas method mediates these states with the aim of generating a greater personal presence, physicality and stronger
mental health?
- Stuart Lynch: Interview iScene - 2022
Butoh allows our animal to emerge and play in the China Shop.
- Stuart Lynch: Interview Telegraph Calcultta - 1998
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Møllegade 7, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark, Møllegade 7, 2200 København N, Danmark,Copenhagen, Copenhagen , Denmark
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