MEMORIAL HIROSHIMA BUTOH PACE

BUTOH DANCE 2008/9

WEEKEND WORKSHOPS

By Butoh Master Gustavo Collini

The body discovered amongst the shadows

MASTER CLASS  - Workshops - Sessions and Conferences

Trainer in Butoh Dance, J. Grotowski, Anthropological Theatre, Japanese Drama.

Workshops in Japan , Europa, EE.UU., Canadá and in different Latin American countries.  

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“Butoh has been created so as each dancer, actor or human being unveils their own personal trail by recovering their own creative expression. Eastern techniques contribute to developing the right mix of reasoning and feeling, heightening the senses and integrating our innermost self.”

Butoh Master Gustavo Collini.

MUNDO BUTOH invites you  to embark upon a unique multisensory experience by means of dance, bodily expression and other forms of art through the rollover of  the  2008 intensive workshop plus individual sessions package

Butoh dance +  Jerzy Grotowski ‘s anthropological theatre

Theoretic and practical exercises will be fulfilled during workshops . Each participant will approach the magic world of Eastern metaphoric body language, beginning with his own expressive capacity, reaching a choreographic methodology.

Each encounter will approach different subjects of nature’s elements (minerals, plants or animals). You will learn to relate to them expressively, by means of the millenarian style of oriental art, applying exercises of “recognition of your own body”, “strengthening of the muscles” and “the language of expressive body”. As well as notions of the body “space, time, weight and flow” together with loosening activities which will help you to diminish anxiety and daily stress.

outlines immediate feelings, recovering each individual sense, providing the flow of expression towards others. Therefor the exercises deal with human growth and its environment (i.e. birth, death, marriage and nature, with its human beings and elements).

 is not a technique, and cannot be performed as such. It’s a free personal and individual evolution. Old traditions and habits have to be broken in order to find something new beyond.

 is much more than an oriental Asiatic aesthetics, or showing-off language of the body. Butoh is the reflection of the body over the body; an endless fight between immortal soul and mortal body.

No scenic oriental or occidental art is necessary to practice Butoh.

¿What’s Butoh?

It is an Eastern drama method created in Japan in the 60’s, breaking away with Kabuki theatre ancient tradition. It encompasses Western anti-theatre framed by German Expressionism which has given way to developing a new aesthetics and personal technique aiming to recover and boost one’s boundless innerself . This is to be attained by means of active meditation and  training so as to enhance resistance, muscular tone and relaxation as well as  unveiling the hidden paths of our emotional body.

Butoh Master Gustavo Collini was trained in Japan  by the masterminds and top representatives of such art, i.e. Yoshito Ohno, Kazuo Ohno and Akira Kazai, for over ten years. Besides, he was appointed to deliver Butoh workshops at Asbestos Kan in Tokyo among other reputable places. Also, he completed his training at Jerzy Grotowski Drama Lab in Pontedera, Italy. Currently he is a director, dancer and trainer whose career has spred over Asia, The Americas and Europe.

“Moving ten centimetres the spirit and seven centimetres the body”- Actor Zeami. Imperial Noh Theatre creator.

CONCEPT

Butoh is a tool to be used for everyday life transformation sparked off by  self- motivations and boundaries. The impeding reality of human life brings about the awakening of our innermost qualities through a ritualistic dance that would enable us to become aware of our most ingrained habits and mechanisms. This awareness process will lead us to building  an alternative means of communication towards creativity and transformation. The workshop will also include group and individual choreographies  as well as Ritualistic Improvisation on ancient Eastern tales.

TARGET

Actors/actresses, musicians, plastic artists, dancers and eager people who are willing to upgrade or plunge into Japanese Butoh Dance in any of the categories below.

CONTENTS

Masculine energy - Samurai dance

*        vital energy

*         strenght

*         boldness

*         physical abilities

*         recovery of muscular strength

*         the correcting of daily posture

*         anti-stress physical training

Femenine energy

*        frailty

*        senses awakening

*         contemplation

*        elements of nature ( flower, tree, river, insect, bird, moon).

*        the metaphorical body

MUNDO BUTOH TRAILER AT

 http://youtube.com/watch?v=6W_PYyd6nBo   

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REQUIREMENTS

 Administrative

Registration in advance

Pay in advance

Other

Physical ability

No chronic injuries

 Comfortable clothing

 It is not  essential to have former  experience. THERE IS NO AGE LIMIT.

DURATION

16 hours

“ You can dance like a flower, you can imitate it and it will turn out to be everybody’s flower, trivial, and lacking in interest; however, if you place the beauty of such flower and the emotion it sparks in your dead body, then, the flower you have created will be unique and real.” Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance creator

NOTE: Individual Sessions are OPTIONAL  and are offered to complement the team sessions. The  ultimate aim of personal sessions is delving deeper into what has been worked on  in the group , at a  more profound and exhaustive level. The schedule of  these sessions will be fixed by the trainer and participant after due registration and will  take place in parallel with the workshop.

Gustavo collini-BUTOH MASTER AND PERFORMER – also invites you to take part in his weekend workshops, which give attendees the opportunity to delve into the Butohian art and its expression.

Shows TANGO BUTOH, HORAI & CIUDAD OFF. 

TV ProgrammeS Making of single programmes as director and executive producer for different TV stations.

Any query, doubt or comment do not hesitate to contact us at:  mundobutoh@yahoo.com.ar

GUSTAVO COLLINI Personal Data

Citizenships Argentinian & Italian

Phone: 005411 4773 8787

Av. Luis Maria Campos 1185 8º A

1426 – Buenos Aires – Argentina

Web referenCes

by entering my full name Gustavo Collini in the search engine.

Also Videos of the different shows at:

www.danza-butoh.com.ar/sartor.htm

ROLES: Actor, Theatre Director, Dancer, Butoh Dance Speaker/Lecturer, Choreographer , Japanese Dance & Drama Trainer, Argentina Butoh Representative, Teatro delle Immagini Director, Arte Production’s Multimedia Director.