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. At the same time, he was a member of a well-known Eguchi & Sumiko modern dance company (German expressionist dance) in Osaka, Japan. Before and while doing Butoh, he practiced Zen Meditation at a Zen Monastery in Kyoto, Japan for 16 years and at Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre in Kyoto, Japan. His art is based on Butoh & The Sacred with his own creativity and combines his background with Theatre, Gymnastics, Martial arts, Modern dance, Opera, Zen, Gothic fashion, Myth, and Yoga Philosophy. He expresses profoundly the deep life, death of nature being, and pureness of love.

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Butoh Artist Ken Mai will be coming to Dartington, Devon, UK to give workshops on the Dartington Estate. An opportunity to learn directly from the Master Artist with many years of experience.

Location:
On the Dartington Hall Estate, @ Studio 6

Dates:
Friday July 19 (10am – 2pm)
Saturday July 20 (10am – 2pm)
Sunday July 21 (10am – 2pm)
“We practice purifying the body while gradually understanding the observation of the body (body, mind, breathing, sensation, emotion, and energy) through stillness and movement. Through these exercises, we adopt a method that leads to the stage of image and transformation. It also includes developing one's own creativity through experimental improvisation and various images.
The method also includes important aspects especially related to esoteric spirit.” Ken Mai
Cost:
£80/three days *limited concession places available for students and participants on low income.

To attend, please contact me on a.kushnerova@mac.com

PERFORMANCE

Ken Mai will perform his solo “Body Psalm/身体詩編/Shintaishihen” at ASHBURTON ARTS CENTRE
Tuesday July 22nd @7,30pm
* please book tickets via AAC

Ken Mai Butoh Solo - Body Psalm/身体詩編/Shintaishihen
Duration 50 min
Creation by Ken Mai

The Psalm is a part of the Old Testament, a collection of praiseworthy verses. However, although this work does not dance this psalm, it should be influenced spiritually. For the time being, this work focuses on the microcosm of the body, and is a creative work that attempts the process of manifestation with the artistic sense of being expressed and existing as the body listens to the poems and songs that emerge from the inside and becomes a dance in the space.

And soul, what emerges from inner memories and unconsciousness is expressed as movement, and the body is transformed, darkness, light, beauty and ugliness and life and death are intersected and metamorphosis to the body. It also touches on the eternity of love, depicting a flower-like purity that overflows from the soul as a Psalm.