Hosted by Human Clay CIC
Workshops are conceived as sites of ceremony and deep listening and are rooted in the ethos of Butoh dance and the transformative potential of ritual practice. We attempt to hold gatherings as thresholds, a place where the visible and invisible meet, where the body becomes a vessel for myth, memory, and elemental presence.
Grounded in eco-somatic inquiry, animist cosmologies, and the raw poetics of movement, these workshops unfold as rituals of dissolution and becoming. Participants are invited into a shared passage through slowness, silence, and the strange intelligence of the body where old forms are shed and new sensitivities emerge.
We enter through breath, sensation, and image. Sometimes we work with materials, paper, earth, words as extensions of our dreaming. Each session becomes a ceremony of inquiry, where decomposition, emergence, and more-than-human kinship are choreographed in real time.
The Butoh body is an ecosystem responding.
To slow down is to let the world recompose you.
In Butoh, the body is a terrain of multiplicity, it contains ghosts, animals, dust, weather, memory. The dancer becomes soil rather than subject. Butoh training begins with forgetting: forgetting habitual movement, identity, and narrative.
To dance is to become the earth’s gesture of remembering itself.
Workshops are held monthly and biannually, in the UK and internationally.
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Butoh Artist Ken Mai will be returning to Dartington. An opportunity to learn directly from the Master Artist with many years of experience.
Workshop will be offered by Ken Mai on the Dartington Hall Estate, @ Studio 6
21 February Satturday 10,30 - 14,30
22 February Sunday 10,30 - 14,30
23 February Monday 10,30 - 17,00 (Lunch Break 13 - 14,00)
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A Workshop on the shoreline, exploring the poetics of the ocean and its beings through ecological land-movement practices, butoh, and sensorial theatre.
Tap into ancient body memory to awaken liquid intelligence and become oceanic—to kinship with more-than-human oceanic beings.
Facilitated by Anna Kushnerova & Zoë Binetti
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Workshops are conceived as sites of ceremony and deep listening and are rooted in the ethos of Butoh dance and the transformative potential of ritual practice. We attempt to hold gatherings as thresholds, a place where the visible and invisible meet, where the body becomes a vessel for myth, memory, and elemental presence.
Grounded in eco-somatic inquiry, animist cosmologies, and the raw poetics of movement, these workshops unfold as rituals of dissolution and becoming. Participants are invited into a shared passage through slowness, silence, and the strange intelligence of the body where old forms are shed and new sensitivities emerge.
We enter through breath, sensation, and image. Sometimes we work with materials, paper, earth, words as extensions of our dreaming. Each session becomes a ceremony of inquiry, where decomposition, emergence, and more-than-human kinship are choreographed in real time.
The Butoh body is an ecosystem responding.
To slow down is to let the world recompose you.
In Butoh, the body is a terrain of multiplicity, it contains ghosts, animals, dust, weather, memory. The dancer becomes soil rather than subject. Butoh training begins with forgetting: forgetting habitual movement, identity, and narrative.
17/06/25 14:00 - 18:00
18/06/25 13:30 - 17:30
19/06/25 13:30 - 17:30
Body Resonance
“The main focus of this workshop is a conscious research of our body/mind/soul unification, so we can deeply enjoy the intrinsic process of metamorphosis in the spirit of dance.
Through a continuous exploration of our past collective memories, we can strike a vein of abundant creative resources, enriching the essence of our life...
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Facilitated by Anna Kushnerova & Becca Parkinson
We invite you to create around a morethanhuman-size hole in the Earth within the wild landscape of Dartmoor Forest.
Through movement we will explore encountering, articulating, entering, re-forming via the instrument of our bodies. We will create rituals and develop acts in situe in response to the physicality of the landscape.
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KEN MAI BUTOH WORKSHOP @ STUDIO 6, DARTINGTON ESTATE, DEVON, UK
Ken Mai is a Japanese international Butoh artist, yogi, choreographer, and teacher based in Helsinki, Finland. He has performed and taught in more than 30 countries. He studied with the legendary Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno and he was also a member of the Sub Rosa Butoh Company, which was connected to the Byakkosha Butoh Company at the beginning of the ’90s in Kyoto, Japan.
Friday July 19 (10am – 2pm)
Saturday July 20 (10am – 2pm)
Sunday July 21 (10am – 2pm)
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Workshop facilitated by Anna Kushnerova
In-Person Artistic & Cinematographic Gathering
Cabo de Gata, Almeria, Spain
April 13-18, 2025 held by www.lafraguabruta.com
This workshop emerges as a continuation of my research into the multiplicity of bodies—a choreographic and symbolic exploration of the layers that constitute our being.
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Workshop Facilitated by Anna Kushnerova
DANCE OF SPORES III Spazio '500 per le Arti
Residential dance research camp and performance creation
23rd July - 3rd August 2024
Palazzo Malfatti, Vigolo Vattaro, Italy
11 days, 6 teachers, 50 hours guided practice, free time to explore and integrate, professional dancers sharing their creative process, costume designer workshop, 2 performance events including your work-in-progress showcase and our artists in residence premier, dance movies, lectures and evening jams.
Teachers: Kea Tonetti and Tivitavi (Italy), Alexandra Wynne (Australia), Tejus Menon (India/Switzerland), Anna Kushnerova (UK), Darinka Pilári (Hungary), Rita Soma (Spain)
Facilitated by Anna Kushnerova & Becca Parkinson
A series of gatherings In and around Dartmoor National Park: moving & divining, listening to the offerings with a reverential imagination with care and curiosity for its landscapes, the voices of non-beings and beings.
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