August 2-3rd
Butoh Event London
Dates: 2-3 August, 2024
Workshop 1: Friday 2 Aug 18-21h
Workshop 2: Saturday 3 Aug 14:30-17:30
(email posthumantheatre@gmail.com to book a workshop)
The Echoes of Silence performances: Saturday 3 Aug 19-21h (tickets here)
Location: Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall street, EC3A 4AF, London
Join us for an immersive two-day journey into the world of Butoh, a unique and transformative art form. This event features atwo day workshop led by international artist Gio Ju, Subbody Resonance Butoh midwife and Aleksandar Isailovic, the founder of the London Butoh Dance Company and Posthuman Theatre. The workshop is open to people of all abilities and you don't need any dance/theatre experience in order to join.
In addition, enjoy captivating performances by Butoh artists from around the globe, including special showcases by Gio Ju and Aleksandar Isailović.
Butoh Workshop:
BEING UNKNOWN DIMENSION
Discover the World of Butoh: Two Days of Transformative Workshops and Performances in London
With Gio JU and Aleksandar Isailović
Dates: 2-3 August, 2024
Workshop 1: Friday 2 Aug 18-21h
Workshop 2: Saturday 3 Aug 14:30-17:30
Workshop fee: £50 both days or £35 one day (email posthumantheatre@gmail.com to book, 20% concession for two days, 10% for one day)
The Echoes of Silence performances: Saturday 3 Aug 19-21h (tickets here, discounted for workshop participants)
Location: Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall street, EC3A 4AF, London
Shift to subbody (subconscious/subtle body) mode where body and mind melt into one through various conditioning. Becoming transparent body where dual boundaries are blurred. Open infinite creative source through dance in the pure state of life. It resonates with everything by being freely connected and separated with infinite patterns.
BEYOND LANGUAGE, QUALIA
BEYOND BOUNDARY, RESONANCE
Qualia is a cellular language, very personal, relative, resonant and changing all the time. When we completely switch off thoughts, multidimensional signals that transcend time and space appear and disappear inside and outside the body. When we sense that subtle flow with body, the dance leaps into multiple dimensions. Qualia resonates everywhere between dual and nondual. As the infinite creative source, Qualia exploring will work for all genres of arts and life.
photo: Raúl Bartolome
Gio Ju
A Butoh dancer and subbody Butoh midwife.
(In the subbody butoh, instead of teacher there is midwife who safely bring out hidden bodies within us.) Trained and explored in Subbody Resonance Butoh School for 5 years since 2010 and guided Butoh at the school and in various places.
Along with subbody butoh, participating in the creation of Ten Pen chii (by Yumiko Yoshioka) in 2013 and the lesson from Butoh master Masaki Iwana became the core of own butoh research. Gio is a silence practitioner between stillness and movement with Korean martial arts, Ashtanga, and Dantien yoga experience. As a nature textile artist Gio created sustainable nature textile project, Soft Earth(softearth.art) toward simpler life and closer to nature. Butoh changed the way of living to simpler and closer to true nature.
photo: Raúl Bartolome
Aleksandar Isailović
Aleksandar is a movement artist based in London. He is the founder of Posthuman Theatre and London Butoh Dance Company.
He is also a dance anthropologist (MA) and a yoga teacher. Aleksandar first came in touch with Butoh in Thailand and then studied with Rhizome Lee in India, Imre Thormann, Mushimaru and many others. He has been guiding Butoh for over five years now. He has performed internationally in Hungary, Finland, India, Serbia, Italy, Norway, Brazil, Turkey and has curated/directed for London Butoh Dance Company. He also holds regular Butoh classes in London.
His main artistic focus in the past few years has been on post-human forms of life.
CALLOUT FOR ARTISTS for The Echoes of Silence: A Butoh Performance Evening
We are inviting Butoh artists to join us for a two-day celebration of this unique and transformative art form. Showcase your talent with short Butoh pieces of up to 20-25 minutes and be part of an extraordinary event featuring workshops and performances by international artists.
Join us in bringing the profound beauty and
expressive power of Butoh to life!
Apply Now at posthumantheatre@gmail.com
Event Details Dates: Saturday August 3rd 2024
Location: Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall street, EC3A 4AF
London Performance Opportunities: Duration: Short Butoh pieces (20-25 minutes)
Revenue: Sales will be split between the artists, minus venue and other costs