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Butoh retreat at Taiyo-sha in Iwate

3.5 weeks in Europe, 2 weeks in America, 2 weeks in Western expedition just finished!! 12 plane rides in 7 weeks or so today since I left Melbourne!

Started with a shamanism training camp in Iwate, followed by a dance lab camp in Romania, workshops in England, travelling around Slovakia and Poland, and finally the Salish Sea Butoh Festival near Seattle, USA.

Dancing everywhere
Make tea everywhere
I could feel the Spirit in the woods, rivers and oceans everywhere!

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ButohOUT!2025 Workshop Series@ Various venues

ButohOUT! 2025 Workshop Listing

Melbourne

WS #1
Weekly Training: Through Butoh & Beyond
21 Jan - 18 Feb
6-9pm
@ St Mary Anglican Church Hall

WS #2
2-Day Weekend: Visual, Text and Body through Magic of Butoh
8 (Sat) and 9 (Sun) Feb
10am - 4:30 pm
@ LGI studio, North Melbourne

WS #3
2-Day Weekend: Butoh Master Atushi Takenouchi accompany by Hiroko Komiya
1 (Sat) and 2 (Sun) March
10am-4:30pm
@Industrial School, Abbotsford Convent

BOOKINGS & PAYMENTS HERE

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Dance, Ritual and Spirituality

Back from Japan — Off To Canberra

Canberra Dance Theatre

[BOOKED OUT!]

Friday 17 to Sunday 19 January 2025
Friday from 6:00pm-9:00pm and Saturday/Sunday from 10:00am-4:00pm

CDT is excited to have made a connection with Butoh Artist Yumi Umiumare, and to announce that Yumi is coming to Canberra next January to offer a weekend workshop at CDT.

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#3 Weekend Workshop: Butoh Master Atsushi Takenouchi accompany by Hiroko Komiya — Mar 2025

SPECIAL WEEKEND WORKSHOP !!

Melbourne
1 (Sat) & 2 (Sun) March
10am-4:30pm
By BUTOH MASTER ATSUSHI accompany by HIROKO KOMIYA
@Abbotsford Convent

Atsushi Takenouchi, a global legend in Butoh based in Italy, is coming to Melbourne to lead a special weekend Butoh workshop, accompanied by live music from his long-time collaborator, Hiroko Komiya.

He will introduce the classic aspects of Butoh through his unique Jinen Butoh style. Jinen is an old Japanese word, signifying something larger than nature itself. In some Western thought, ‘Man’ exists above ‘Nature,’ with a separation between Nature, Man, and God. In Jinen, however, all things are interconnected—within each life resides a god.

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WARSAW, POLAND Workshop 

Performance 16 (Fri) Nov 2024
followed by:
Workshop  17 (Sat) Nov 2024
@BUTOHSFERA, Fundacja Pompka, Warsaw, Poland 

BUTOH KAI 6 begins with the performance "Tea Trance" by the Japanese dancer YUMI UMIUMARE living in Australia. The day before the workshops, on November 16, you will be able to see it free of charge thanks to funding from the Mokotów District Office/Warsaw Railway Station). Sunday, November 17, we encourage you to take part in workshops.

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ButohOUT! 2024: Performance Making Workshop - Visible and In-Visible

Butoh can be mysterious, abstract, and esoteric, yet it can also serve as a creative gateway, a catalyst, and even lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

As a participant, you will be taken on a journey to explore the visible and invisible aspects of Butoh and performance-making. Yumi guides you to explore your own idiosyncratic creative process to ‘actualise’ your original inspiration and ideas. Quick Link to ButohOUT!24 Registration

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