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) 

Cost:£120/three days * limited concession spaces are available for students and participants on low income.

To attend, please contact humanclaycic@gmail.com

“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

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.

www.kenmaibutoh.blogspot.com/
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PERFORMANCE
Ken Mai will perform his solo “Flesh to Ashes” at MOOR IMAGINATION COLLECTIVE  
www.moorimagination.org