Drowning 溺れ - On the verge of drowning | WS #2
ButohOUT! 2022
KABUKU-OFF
“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.” — Author: Haruki Murakami
Ideal for both experienced practitioners and those new to Butoh, this workshop will explore the relationship of the body and space through a series of classical Butoh techniques. The participants will explore a deeper sensation of the body both physically and metaphorically, to expand their limit, embracing the sensation of ‘drowning’, as a positive metaphor of transformation.
Tatsumi Hijikata, one of the founders of Butoh associated the essence of Butoh with a real experience of nearly drowning in a river. While watching the surface of the water, he entered a liminal space between life and death and felt he was being reborn again and again.
Local Butoh practitioner and researcher Helen Smith will guide the workshop, as well as having special international guests from Japan, Seisaku (one of the last disciples of atsumi Hijikata) and Dai Matsuoka (a member of Sankaijuku) via Zoom, supported and translated by Yumi Umiuare.
The workshop on 5th and 6th will be conducted at Abbotsford Convent (in-person) while Dai Matstuoka and Seisaku will give a 2 hour workshop each from Japan.
Schedule (subject to change)
Friday 4 March - Day 1
5:30 - 6:15pm - Registration & Introduction
6:15 - 7:30pm - Warm up & some exercises by Helen Smith
Break
7:35 - 9:00pm - Classical Butoh Exercise by Helen Smith
Saturday 5 March - Day 2
10am - 12pm - Classical Butoh Exercise by Helen Smith
12:00 - 12:45pm - Lunch break
12:45 - 1:00pm - Introducing Dai Matsuoka
1:00 - 3:30pm - Classical Butoh Exercises by Dai Matsuoka via Zoom supported by Yumi Umiumare
3:30 - 4:00pm - Discussion and Q and A
Sunday 6 March - Day 3
10:00am - 12:00pm - Classical Butoh Exercise by Helen Smith
12:00 - 12:45pm - Lunch break
12:45 - 1:00pm - Introducing Seisaku
1:00 - 3:30pm - Classical Butoh Exercises by Seisaku via Zoom supported by Yumi Umiumare
3:30 - 4:00pm - Discussion, Q and A, feedback & debrief
Photo: Lagarto Fernandez
Seisaku - 正朔
Seisaku started learning Butoh under Tatsumi Hijikata.
After Hijikata’s death, he joined the butoh group "Hakutobo" working with Yoko Ashikawa, touring and performing as a dancer both in Japan and internationally.
Seisaku has developed his solo dance and group performances as well as directed and choreographed for many theatrical productions.
In 2005, Yuri Nagaoka founded butoh company “Dance Medium” and began working with Seisaku to create and perform group pieces. In 2012, Nagaoka and Seisaku were awarded a prize from Japan Dance Critics Association for the piece "Kaeru” (Coming Home)
Photo: Maiko Miyagawa
Dai Matsuoka - 松岡大
Butoh Dancer, LAND FES Director.
Graduated Sophia University, the Faculty of Comparative Culture.
Graduated Kuwasawa Design School.
Matsuoka has been a dancer for SANKAIJUKU since 2005.
He has appeared in 9 pieces of Sankaijuku including “Kinkan Shonen”, “Kagemi”, “Tobari”, “Unetsu” and “ARC”.
He has also been directing the performance event “LAND FES” in Tokyo since 2011, in which audience is navigated to encounter live sessions by musicians and dancers taking place at different places in the town .
https://landfes.com
FACILITATOR
Helen Smith
Yumi Umiumare
Special Int’l guest artists
Seisaku
Dai Matsuoka
WHEN
March 2022
4 (Fri) 6-9pm
5 (Sat) 10am-4pm
6 (Sun) 10am-4pm
WHERE
ABBOTSFORD CONVENT
Boiler Room (Fri)
Rosina Auditorium (Sat & Sun)
Visitor/Access Info
COST
$300 Full / $280 Concession (inc. GST)
*Contact us if you are in financial difficulties or/and wish a payment plan
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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CONTACT
0478 634 052
butohout@gmail.com
Your safety is our priority
We take your safety seriously and have put in place the following COVID safety measures to ensure you are able to feel free and have fun whilst moving:
We will need to sight your certificate for double vaccination or medical exemption before the commencement of each workshop.
You must check in with Abbotsford Convent's QR Code each day.
The capacity of each session is 20-25 participants to ensure physical distancing and to comply with government directions (please note: we will continue to adhere to government restrictions, and will notify you directly if this affects this program);
We will open windows and doors for ventilation – you might need warmer clothes.
Please eat all food, and take breaks, outside whenever possible.
You are encouraged to bring your own water bottle as the site water fountains may be switched off to reduce contamination;
Markers and any other equipment will be thoroughly cleaned with disinfectant between each session; and
Wearing a mask is mandatory inside and when you cannot maintain physical distancing, unless you have a lawful exemption for not wearing one.
View the Convent’s COVID Safe plans here.