Butoh Workshop- Making the Invisible - Visible with Yael Karavan (bi-lingual)

"In other forms of dance, such as flamenco or classical dance. the movements are derived from a fixed technique; they are imposed from the outside and are conventional in form. In my case, it's the contrary, my dance is far removed from conventions and techniques, it is the unveiling of the inner life." TATSUMI HIJIKATA founder of Ankoku Butoh

Karavan partilha 3 décadas de experiência e pesquisa com Butoh, Essa oficina seria também depois de uma vivência com o povo indígena Brasileiro, Kariri Xoco, criando uma ponte entre o Butoh e a sabedoria indígena em relação a natureza e aos 4 elementos. Este workshop trabalhará os elementos da metamorfose, presença, prontidão, contraste, a dança através de imagens e tensão entre opostos. O objectivo é libertar o corpo do seu conjunto preconcebido mundano de gestos e movimentos e, assim, permitir-nos aceder a uma essência mais profunda e autêntica de movimento e expressão arquetípica.

Butoh é uma dança de vanguarda, uma filosofia e um método que foi criado no Japão, no final dos anos 50, por Tatsumi Hijikata e Kazuo Ohno. Não se trata de uma técnica, mas de um método e uma abordagem da dança que nasce dentro de nós e nos conecta à nossa essência, natureza, universo e aos ciclos da vida e da morte.
Questionando como o Butoh pode ser traduzido para um corpo europeu e o porquê de o Butoh não ser apenas relevante, mas extremamente vital nos dias de hoje.

Karavan teve a oportunidade de trabalhar com os fundadores do Butoh no Japão: Kazuo Ohno e Motofuji San - esposa de Tatsumi Hijikata - bem como com Tadashi Endo e o MAMU dance theatre, Yumiko Yoshioka e Ten-Pen-Chi, Sankai Juku, Atsushi Takenuchi, Minako Seki, Carlota Ikeda, Yuko Kawamoto, Akira Kasai, Natsu Nakajuma entre outros.

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The main elements that will be explored in the workshop are metamorphoses, dance through imagery, presence, awareness, and the tension between opposites. The aim is to free the body from its mundane preconceived set of gestures and movements and thus allowing us to access a deeper and more authentic essence of movement and archetypal expression. Butoh is an avant-garde dance of transformation created at the end of the 50 in Japan. This workshop will also share a very unique experience, as it will be just after a weeks' research with a Brazilian indigenous tribe, exploring into the connection between their relationship with the 4 elements and Butoh.

Karavan is sharing nearly 3 decades of experience and research of Butoh, having worked with the founding members of Butoh Dance as well as 2nd and 3rd generations in Japan and Europe. Butoh is not a technique but a method and philosophy. Questioning how Butoh can be translated into a European Body and why is Butoh not just relevant but extremely vital nowadays.

Karavan has had the opportunity to work with the founders of Butoh in Japan: Kazuo Ohno and Motofuji San – wife of Tatsumi Hijikata – as well as with Tadashi Endo and the MAMU dance theatre, Yumiko Yoshioka and Ten-Pen-Chi, Sankai Juku, Atsushi Takenuchi, Minako Seki, Carlota Ikeda, Yuko Kawamoto, Akira Kasai, Natsu Nakajuma among others.

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Photo Ana Warner on the sculpture site of Dani Karavan