Entering the Unknown: A Full-Day Butoh Intensive

About this course

This butoh workshop examines movement through stillness, axis and space work, sustained improvisation, sensitivity and responsiveness. Participants explore how simple acts and gestures can become expressive movement, while questioning habitual ideas about what dance is. The teaching draws on several distinct approaches, with sessions shaped through both planned exercises and intuitive responses to the people and circumstances present. The course focuses on presence, listening through the body and entering unfamiliar movement states rather than preparing a conventional performance.

What you'll learn

• Explore stillness, axis and spatial awareness through butoh-based movement practices.
• Use sustained improvisation to respond physically to changing sensations and surroundings.
• Develop sensitivity to simple acts and gestures as sources of dance material.
• Examine assumptions about dance through embodied and perceptual exercises.

Is this course right for you?

The course is intended for adults aged 18 and over, including those with no previous butoh experience. Participation involves physical movement, stillness, sustained improvisation and attention to bodily sensation, with sessions responding to the group and the moment.

• No previous butoh experience is required.
• Open to all adults aged 18 and over.
• Sessions involve improvisation and physically engaged movement exploration.