The workshop is aimed at people interested in self-development and deepening and expanding mind-body awareness. Both for beginners and advanced.

 

It will be useful for: dancers, performers, actors, people training: martial arts, yoga, etc., as well as people interested in therapy through the body, who are looking for authentic movement and attentive presence in the body in relation to others.

 

The workshop will be a combination of different methods of work, creating a coherent whole:

 

– Aikishintaiso (internal Aikido gymnastics),

 

– Noguchitaiso (Noguchi Michizo gymnastics),

 

– Butoh improvisation with/without image,

 

– expressing emotions in dance,

 

– Butoh dance: individual, in contact with a partner and in a group,

 

– meditation,

 

– deep relaxation.

 

Thanks to this approach, the workshop participant will be able to delve into their interior (physical sensations, emotions, mental visions, “sense” of space, etc.) to realize and express sensations in authentic movement.

 

BUTOH

 

Japanese “modern” dance – originated 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 HOURS

 

June 3-4, 2023

 

Saturday 13:00-18:00 (with a break of 45 minutes)

 

Sunday: 11:00-18:00 (with a 1 hour break)

 

PLACE

 

Contact. Space of Movement, Dance, Music and Art,

 

st. Szpitalna 40, first floor, Krakow

 

www.kontaktprzestrzen.pl

 

FEE:

 

PLN 350 – advance payment of PLN 100 by May 26, 2023 (the remaining part of the amount is payable on the day of the workshop)

 

* The account number for the advance payment will be provided in the return e-mail after registering for participation.

 

* In case of cancellation less than 7 days before the start

 

workshop, the advance payment is non-refundable.

 

* The number of places is limited.

 

REGISTRATION

 

e-mail: jerzakkrzysztof@gmail.com

 

INFORMATION

 

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/KokoroKJ/

 

Phone: 698 557 060

 

LEADING

 

Krzysztof Jerzak – butoh dancer, choreographer and aikidoka.

 

(https://www.facebook.com/KokoroKJ/)

 

In 1987 he started training aikido, in the years 2003-2020 he taught by conducting regular classes. Currently, he has a 4 dan master’s degree. He was the founder and teacher of the Kobayashi Hirokazu Aikido Academy in Kraków.

 

In 1999 he also started learning Japanese butoh dance. He took lessons from: Daisuke Yoshimoto, Itto Morita, Atsushi Takenouchi, Imre Thormann, Katsura Kan and others.

 

He has several solo performances to his credit: “Szczery?” (2002), “Beyond” (2005), “Straw-butoh” (2009), “Dividing” (2019), “Words, words, words…” (2019), “Hana no michi” – The Way of Flowers (2020).

 

In 2004, he led a year-long project called “Integration in Dance Therapy”, which also involved deaf people – for participants, he wrote and directed the performance “Flowers on the Pavement”. In the years 2005-2011, he collaborated many times with independent artists: musicians, actors, dancers In 2008, together with the Do-Teatr group, he co-created the performance “Aite” (choreography and dance). In 2021-2022, he ran a year-long project of intensive butoh workshops – for participants, wrote and directed the performance “Absolute Nothing”. He regularly conducts workshops.