We invite you to participate in an intensive weekend BUTOH dance workshop – TOUCH OF THE OTHER, which will take place on 1-2.02.2025 in Krakow!
Hosted by: Kokoro – Krzysztof Jerzak (https://www.facebook.com/KokoroKJ)
The workshop will consist of two coherent parts. In the first one, we will focus on ‘touching ourselves’. To do this, we will look at the body as an organic map containing moving points and lines, whose various constellations modify the planes (front, back and sides of the body). This work will open up access to deeper bodily and emotional perception and release the potential of new directions and qualities of movement.
In the second part, based on the level of sensitivity we have achieved, we will open up to ‘touching the other’. Here, acting through ‘physical’ contact, we will explore the possibilities of influencing and modifying the bodily-emotional-mental structure of the partner. The partner, on the other hand, opening up to this ‘external’ transformation, will use it as inspiration to discover the expression of movement on even deeper layers of the body-mind.
This work will be a process of ‘touching the other’, in which the depth of mutual interaction will be externalized, where the change in me transforms the other, and the change in him transforms me.
The workshop is aimed at both beginners and advanced people who are interested in self-development and deepening and expanding body-mind awareness.
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 relationship with 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 TIMES
1-2.02.2025
Saturday / Sunday – 11:00-18:00 (with a 1-hour break)
PLACE
Kontakt. Space of Movement, Dance, Music and Art, Szpitalna street 40, 1st floor, Krakow
https://www.facebook.com/przestrzenKONTAKT
www.kontaktprzestrzen.pl
FEES
420 PLN
* Advance payment of PLN 120 by January 24.
* The account number for payment will be provided in the return e-mail after registration.
* In the event of withdrawal less than 7 days before the start of the workshop, the advance payment is non-refundable.
* In the event of the workshop being cancelled by the organizer, the deposit will be fully refunded.
* 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: “Sincere?” (2002), “Beyond” (2005), “Straw-butoh” (2009), “Dividing” (2019), “Words, words, words…” (2019), “Hana no michi” – The Way of Flowers (2020), “The Mirror” (2023). In 2004, he led a year-long project called “Integration in Dance Therapy”, which also involved 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).