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PROJECT CONCEPT OF
WORKSHOPS Jinen Butoh & BUTOH SOLO Atsushi Takenouchi & Hiroko Komiya INFORMATION
BUTOH The theme for this Butoh workshop project is to dance the Yin
Yang; to express the various souls that live in the vast cycle of JINEN -
the cycle of day and night, life and death. In this workshop, we will
focus especially on embracing the souls that were excluded or pushed away
by the society or suffered from mental and physical disturbances, and get
into them and dance them. Through dancing these souls, we encounter the
darkness within ourselves and we keep dancing until we liberate them from
the concept of darkness, perceive them as a real effusion of the life and
change them into light. While creating the final solo presentation,
Takenouchi will give participants advice in which physical and spiritual
conditions they should face Butoh and how to turn the movement sleeping
within them into techniques. The aim of this workshop is to give concrete expression to the
final solo presentation (performance) so as to encounter butoh acting
directly on the stage. During this 1 week, the participants will learn to
elaborate their own inner movements in a concrete manner, to express them
while inhabiting the space of the stage, and to create connections with
the music and lighting. Being in charge of the whole creative process will
require great emotional intensity. This workshop project is intended primarily for
experienced people who are trying to work deeply into yourself on the
stage. The training consists in transforming yourself into all kinds
of people and lives, and dance them from birth to death. To put it
paradoxically, whatever the people and lives may be, the dancers will
have to reveal and will discover their own true themselves.
WORKSHOP - EXERCISE 1. movement which comes from inside Make movement
from the abstract like wind, water and fire. Make movement from the
reaction of your body to your breath, coldness, the heat. And sketch the
material things and change into movement. Make movement from basic body
movement in daily life. And find out your own each inside movement from
these. * lie down, move, sit down, stand up, walk - Breath, roll over, crawl, sit down, stand, walking in the
various situation with restriction, walking by transferring your
weight. * a gas, a liquid, a solid - Wind, a cloud, water, fire, wave, gel, gelatin, paper,
feathers, metal, stone, * creature, plants - Amoeba, insects, the reptiles, the Mammalian (four legs,
birds)､grass, flower, trees 2 . change the experience of body into dance Construct
the movement into dance. * conscious and unconscious movement -dream,
baby, crazy man, potential movement, passive movement, daily movement,
movement in style. * emotion
and control -various
feelings, strength and depth of emotion, -hold and
open these emotion * growing
and aging of human being - from
birth to death, baby pose and old man pose, change various pose into
movement * body and
various sound - find out how the experienced movement reacts to
the sound and how to develop the possibilities 3. oneself and others The
movement from inside and outside, passive and active, resistance and
resonance between individuals. * make
others several movement into dance - repeating
improvisation with several theme like wind and a cloud, fire and water,
rolling and walking * various
sound and group dance - adding
the material's sound and instruments sound into the improvisation with
some theme, experience the happening which occurs from the group
dance B. WORKSHOP -
CREATION
Creating the workshop performance Make
sure the main element in the performance
* check the
experimental scene -
Repeating the experimental scene with sound, find out the point and
construction of dance
* select the
experimental scene -
select the main scene and put it in the line of performance
* create the each
scene of performance -
change accidental movement from improvisation into inevitable
movement, -
repeating the movement with concerning the construction and
meaning *
complete each scene of the performance -
check the detailed part with clear direction, and check the balance
between movement and sound C.
PRESENTATION
Sharing the space with audience, *
exercise each part of performance -
make sure whole line of performance with its intention *
exercise whole performance -
check the construction, rhythm and balance and volume of the performance
with its intention
* rehearsal, lighting
, the balance of sound -
check the lighting and sound, replacing the dancers, changing the
costume *
meeting after presentation
meeting, discussion, criticize, DATES: 8 hours per day PLACE: Poznan, TEATR
OSMEGO DNIA no. IBAN - PL 22
1540 1056 2105 8300 0924
0001, SWIFT - EBOSPLPW with a note in
the title transfer:
"WORKSHOP Jinen Butoh", name
of participant).
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