OPEN CLASSES IN LONDON 2022
Drop-in Butoh Classes & Butoh Jams
Hosted by London Butoh Dance Company & Posthuman Theatre
📍 Every other Saturday | 5:00 – 7:00 PM (Jam) 5:00 – 6:30 PM (Drop-in Class)
📍 Theatre Deli, London
London Butoh Dance Company & Posthuman Theatre invite you to a space for movement, improvisation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Every other week, we offer two distinct sessions: Butoh Classes and Butoh Jams, alternating Saturdays.
Both sessions are open to everyone—whether you have experience in Butoh, dance, theatre, music, or visual arts, or are simply curious to explore new forms of expression. This is a space for play, discovery, and deep engagement in a non-judgmental, inclusive environment.
Butoh Classes Drop-in – Guided Exploration
A structured session introducing Butoh’s principles, philosophy, and physical practice. Each class offers an entry point into Butoh’s unique approach to movement, whether you are new to the form or looking to deepen your exploration.
✨ What to expect:
🔥 The foundations and aesthetics of Butoh
🌿 Presence, embodiment, and transformation
🎭 Improvisation techniques and deep body awareness
🔍 Exploring movement as storytelling and ritual
The classes offer a balance of structured exercises and open exploration, creating space for each participant to connect with their own creative process.
Butoh Jams – Open Improvisation Space
A space for free-form improvisation and interdisciplinary collaboration. Butoh Jams invite movers, musicians, visual artists, and creatives of all disciplines to come together and explore spontaneous composition in real time.
💃 Movers – Butoh, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, theatre, or any movement practice. No prior experience needed—just curiosity and openness.
🎵 Musicians & Sound Artists – Live improvisation and sonic experimentation with moving bodies. Bring instruments, voice, or any sound-making tools.
🎨 Visual Artists & Creatives – Sketch, write, or engage in any artistic medium that responds to the live experience.
Jams are open-ended sessions where structure emerges organically. Participants are free to move, observe, listen, create, and interact in a way that feels natural to them.
These gatherings are an invitation to step outside of familiar patterns, embrace the unknown, and engage with movement and creativity in a supportive and open environment.
🌟 No experience required. All backgrounds, identities, and creative disciplines are welcome.
🔻 Public Sharings – A Platform for Collaboration
Every other month, we will organize a Public Sharing—a platform where you can present your explorations to an invited audience. This is an opportunity to collaborate with those you meet in regular sessions and co-create. Whether you want to perform, showcase work-in-progress, or experiment with new ideas in a shared space, these gatherings will allow for deeper engagement and artistic exchange.
📩 For additional information and to book a place, please email posthumantheatre@gmail.com.
2025 dates (will be updated regularly):
March 15: Drop-in class 5:00 – 6:30 PM
March 29: Butoh Jam 5:00 – 7:00 PM
April 12: Drop-in class 5:00 – 6:30 PM
April 26: Butoh Jam 5:00 – 7:00 PM
May 3: Drop-in class 5:00 – 6:30 PM
May 17: Public Sharing 5:00 – 7:00 PM
May 31: Drop-in class 5:00 – 6:30 PM
June 14: Butoh Jam 5:00 – 7:00 PM
June 28: Drop-in class 5:00 – 6:30 PM
Pricing:
Drop-in Rates
Discounted Packages
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4-Class Package: £55 (£45 concession) (email posthumantheatre@gmail.com to book)
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2-Class + 2-Jam Package: £40 (£34 concession) (email posthumantheatre@gmail.com to book)
📌 Bring a Friend Offer: Buy any package and bring a first-time friend to a Jam for free or to a drop-in class with a 50% discount!
Packages must be used within two months of purchase. Concession rates apply to students, unemployed, and those in financial need—no proof required, we trust you.
📩 For additional information and to book a package, please email posthumantheatre@gmail.com.
Feedback from participants:
"What a brilliant experience. Butoh bridges the worlds of visual art, performance art and dance in a way that really intrigues me. I knew very little about it before joining the classes. What I have learnt has opened me up to all sorts of creative possibilities. There is a lot of experimenting through using certain Butoh practises during the sessions. It can be challenging and also very funny. I especially enjoyed learning with the group and creating my own Butoh piece and sharing that with an audience. Definitely feel inspired to continue learning more." - Alison
"One of the things that felt really liberating, and exploration of the body in a greater depth, was the connection of the inner vision, through description, joined with a movement that comes from within, as a reaction to the feelings, sounds and sensations that descriptive vision unfolds. For me a lot of these experiences of embodying those inner visions and feelings felt like being physically present and engaging in a waking dream. It shed to a certain extent, preconceptions of limitations of the experience of being human. It indeed felt often, like a post human experience!
The engagement of the body and voice for the act of an inner vision brought fourth a connection that enhanced the potency of the experience, it felt like a spiritual journey, very much explorative with body mind voice, from an inner informed intuition. That experience is useful in the feeling of being embodied in existence. As musician working with the voice, I found that the bodies deep connection and action intention and physical/ facial expression through movement, allowed for less boundaries on vocal expression, and I am looking forward to merging Butoh with my vocal and musical practice more!" - Christina
What did strike me most about Aleks' weekly Butoh classes was his skill to gently encourage exploring unfamiliar inner spaces and experiences based on powerful imagery - an amazing journey into an unknown territory called 'me'. - Klaus, London, 70 years old
" I have found the first term amazing. I really enjoyed the challenge of working in silence and the exercises using the imagination." Denize
"Aleks’ workshops and classes have taken me across thresholds and into images and experiences that have touched me deeply."
"Butoh as an art, along with Aleks’ gentle and secure facilitation, offers subtle and often profound exploration of how the body wants to speak as well as what wants to be spoken. It is a moving process of imagination which encourages rich and deep integration. Each individual, as well as the group as its own entity, morph into aspects, atmospheres and characters that are as captivating as they are cathartic. "
There is appreciation, delight, curiosity, playfulness and acceptance of the vast range of human experiences - messy, difficult, ugly, joyful and beautiful. Aleks’ guidance encourages me to take growthful risks and finetune my physical and emotional responses. This has been especially useful for me as a psychotherapist working with trauma and how it impacts the nervous system. There is so much in these practices for anyone to learn and discover, I highly recommend diving in. " Rachel Jane Cooke, Intersectional Relational Therapist & Writer