what is butoh? Q & A
Q: WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT BUTOH?
Q: WHAT ARE SOME BENEFITS OF BUTOH PRACTICE?
A: FREEDOM TO BE who you are at any age, in any place with any BODY.
charting uncertainty gracefully
flexibility and enjoyment with life's changes
discovering and mastering your hidden gifts and talents
joyfully living your life's passion and purpose
breaking out of imposed patterns and old stuck "boxes"
natural ease with creativity and uniqueness
playing your own special role in the world
finding enjoyment and value in your unique gifts
playing your own special role in the world
being a valuable contribution
confidence to shine forth and be seen!
connection with self and all of creation
heightened sensitivity and sensuality
capacity to listen and trust
drop in to a place of belonging
love yourself, your body, your life
become intimate with the motion of the soul
inspire one another
tap hidden sources of your creativity
powerful presence in performance and life
transform stuck areas in your body and life
nurture yourself and others in body, heart and soul
loosen up and let go
dance like a child again
FREEDOM TO BE who you are at any age, in any place with any BODY.
Q: WHAT IS THE ART OF BUTOH?
A: BUTOH is a contemporary, internationally practiced art form that originated (and has ancient roots) in Japan 50 Years ago this May. It was originally called Ankoku Butoh or “the dance of utter darkness.”
A WAY OF LIFE: Beyond the dance studio or stage butoh is a way of being alive and revealing ones truth and soul through the flesh.
A PERFORMING ART: where the truth of one’s body/mind/soul can be offered as a gift to enrich one's community.
A HEALING ART: where lost and hidden (subconscious) parts of your body and soul can be revealed, remembered and retrieved and thus restored to integration in the living present.
A MARTIAL ART: where you can strengthen concentration of attention, as well as open, direct and exchange channels of energy for powerful transformation of your body, mind, spirit and community.
A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE: where one awakens to and embodies the essential truths of being human and all creation.
“Not thinking, only soul” -Kaszuo Ohno Sensei
We will explore and experience....
butoh as inquiry
butoh as a way of life
butoh as a spiritual path
butoh as an unexpected surprise
butoh as a dance practice
butoh as a performing art
butoh as an archive of the body
butoh as soul retrieval
butoh as aesthetic intelligence (aesthesis==the heart's ability to perceive meaning from the world)
butoh as communion with ourselves, our community and world.
butoh as challenging the senses, body, imagination, conventional thought and behavior patterns, aesthetic preferences, expectations, social structures and conditioning.
butoh as moving out of technique and into moment to moment active presence.
butoh as a practice of openness, concentration and truth
butoh as alive and growing forevermore.....
WHAT IS BUTOH for you and you and you???
