We invite you to an intensive weekend BUTOH dance workshop – EMBODIMENT (standing, walking, dancing). The workshop will take place on November 9-10, 2024 in Krakow.
Led by Kokoro – Krzysztof Jerzak (https://www.facebook.com/KokoroKJ)
We will begin each workshop session by delving into the body – into the experience of the body, feeling the body, being the body. To achieve embodied presence, we will use body-oriented meditation techniques and physical exercises.
While in an embodied state, we will begin exploring the next activities: standing, walking, dancing. What is a standing position? How to take a step and walk? What is dance/movement?
At this point, possibilities for freeing spontaneous creation and authentic expression will open up. Going further, we will go through various butoh transformations to explore changes in the quality of the body and the depth of the mind’s potential.
Delving into the state of embodied presence helps dissolve the stability of our conceptual ‘self’. In this experience, the resistance to spontaneous being in the moment decreases and may disappear. This is entering the state of ‘I don’t know’, which opens the gate to profound transformations and the liberation of the body-mind.
The workshop is aimed at both beginners and advanced people who are interested in self-development and deepening and expanding the awareness of the body-mind.
It will be useful for dancers, performers, actors, people practicing martial arts, yoga, etc. as well as people interested in body therapy, who are looking for authentic movement, and mindful presence in the body in relation to others.
BUTOH
Japanese “modern” dance – created in the 1950s, as a result of searching for new forms of expression. Its creators: Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno negated both their own tradition (Kabuki, Bunraku, Nō) and “opposed” the mass culture of the West.
In Butoh dance, the body becomes a text, a record of human experience discovered through movement. Butoh creates opportunities for direct, total self-expression.
DATE AND TIME
9-10 November 2024
Saturday / Sunday – 11:00-18:00 (with a 1.5 h break)
PLACE
Contact. Space of Movement, Dance, Music and Art,
ul. Szpitalna 40, 1st floor, Krakow
www.kontaktprzestrzen.pl
FEE
390 PLN
* Advance payment of PLN 90 by October 30, 2024.
* The account number for payment will be provided in the return email after registration.
* In the event of cancellation less than 7 days before the start of the workshop, the advance payment is non-refundable.
* Limited number of places.
REGISTRATION
e-mail: jerzakkrzysztof@gmail.com
INFORMATION
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KokoroKJ
Tel.: 698 557 060
LEAD BY
Krzysztof Jerzak – butoh dancer, choreographer and aikidoka. In 1987 he began training in aikido, in the years 2003-2020 he taught, conducting regular classes. He currently holds a master’s degree of 4 dan.
He was the founder and teacher of the Krakow Aikido Academy Kobayashi Hirokazu.
In 1999 he also began learning Japanese butoh dance. He took lessons from: Daisuke Yoshimoto, Itto Morita, Atsushi Takenouchi, Imre Thormann, Katsura Kan and others. His portfolio includes several solo performances: “Szczery?” (2002), “Beyond” (2005), “Straw-butoh” (2009), “Dividing” (2019), “Words, words, words…” (2019), “Hana no michi” – The Way of Flowers (2020), “Mirror” (2023). In 2004, he led a year-long project called “Integration in Dance Therapy”, which also included deaf and dumb people – for the participants, he wrote and directed the performance “Flowers on the Sidewalk”. In 2005-2011, he collaborated many times with independent artists: musicians, actors, dancers, filmmakers, co-creating stage and film presentations. In 2008, together with the Do-Teatr group, he co-created the performance “Aite” (choreography and dance). In 2021-2022, he led a year-long project of intensive butoh workshops – for the participants, he created the choreography and directed the performance “Absolutely Nothing”. He regularly conducts workshops in Poland and abroad (Germany, Scotland and Spain).