About this Event
This introductory workshop is open to 18 years old and older. Dance experience is not required.
This workshop aims to encourage participants to discover their unique movements and expressions through Butoh choreographic methods. A Post-Butoh Improvisational Space Dance workshop will be offered as a continuation of Ankoku Butoh.
Pinar Isik Sinka’s workshop introduces Ankoku Butoh Notation, based on the HIJIKATA METHOD created by Tatsumi Hijikata, one of the founders of Butoh. Participants will have an opportunity to learn about Japanese Avant-garde dance theater Butoh fundamental elements, Butoh notation techniques, and the philosophy and history of Butoh.
This workshop investigates the relationship between dance, our body, and possession. Sinka trains the participants to explore; the importance of walking in Butoh, the physical body as a medium, a person who passes through, what is craziness, the crisis of the mind and the body; the different body conditions from heaviness to lightness, from compression to expansion, and the relationship between space and time that is made by the body’s condition.
The workshop will cover the following topics and physical exercises: Walking / Nerve Walk World of Neurology Visual perception Contact Improvisation (Relationship with other beings/relationship with space)
Ma / Space / In between Transforming from one to another (The Darkness of Odilon Redon / The Darkness of Goya / Francis Bacon’s faces / Space of Turner / Ghost / Evaporation / Goddess of Beauty / Plato’s aesthetics-Flower)
"What is it to be human? I do not know. Is it an investigation through body and dance? What is the body? In Buddhism, it is an illusion. It is not real. And what is reality? The dream? The visible? The invisible?”
About Butoh
Butoh is an avant-garde art form of theatrical dance which emerged in Japan in the late 1950s, influenced by kabuki, noh theater, surrealism, german expressionism, neo-dada, French mime techniques, and French, and European literature.
“Ankoku Butoh” means “Dance of Utter Darkness”. The founder of Butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata, wrote: “The utter darkness exists throughout the world, doesn’t it? To think is the dark”. With this statement, Hijikata pointed out that all human beings carry an unconscious side. Although it is tempting to stereotype Butoh, “Darkness” in Butoh refers to what is hidden.
About Pinar Isik Sinka
Pınar Işık Sinka was born in Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. She is a curator, dancer, and member of Tokyo Space Dance; a multidisciplinary artist who works in the field of Fine Arts and Performance Art on an Avant-Garde base, and the founder of PI Art Butoh Dance Company.
Pınar started to study Ankoku Butoh in 2010; she researched Hijikata Tatsumi Notational Butoh / Japanese Avant-garde dance theater (Keiko University Hijikata Tatsumi Archive) in 2013 and she took “Butoh-Fu” lessons from Butoh master Yukio Waguri between 2013-2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
She joined the Butoh workshops of Takao Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Koike, Kota Yamazaki, and Yuko Kaseki. When she visited Tokyo, she took Butoh lessons from Yoshito Ohno in Kazuo Ohno studio in April 2015 and September 2017 in Yokohama at Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio.
Pınar met with Butoh Master Tetsuro Fukuhara (Director of “Butoh Space Dance/ Improvisation Butoh”) in April 2015 in Tokyo. She has been working on Improvisation/ Post Butoh with him since then.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
ArtServe, 1350 E Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, United States
USD 75.00