About this Summer’s Workshop

This Summer the theme is 心の眼 - Other Ways of Seeing, where we learn to see with other eyes. Established Artist Yumi Umiumare teaches her acclaimed masterclass in Butoh alongside new methods of experiential art making for our times, developed alongside interdisciplinary artist and image-maker Vikk Shayen. Together they bring a combined half-century of practice.

Drawing on both traditional and contemporary methods, you are invited to explore new ways of being and to follow your own creative impulses and expression, discovering ways of being through the physical, poetic and philosophical worlds of Butoh and the art of seeing.

Across four days, Yumi Umiumare leads a deep exploration of the visible and invisible in Butoh, moving between inner and outer expression. She is joined by Vikk Shayen, who will lead a segment offering new ways of perception and how to see with your whole body. These are methods are designed to stay with you long after the workshop ends.

The workshop is open to people of all levels of experience and artistic disciplines. Physical movement in the studio and outside make up the core of the workshop but no prior knowledge or skills are necessary to participate.