WORKSHOP SOLD OUT
We are both baffled and incredibly grateful to announce that the weekend workshop Never Stop Blooming with MutsumiNeiro has sold out faster than we thought possible!
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We are currently in discussion with MutsumiNeiro to see whether we can organise another workshop with them in the spring, so this will not be your last chance. Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about it when it's announced.
Never Stop Blooming
3 Day Butoh Workshop with
MutsumiNeiro
Never Stop Blooming
3 Day Butoh Workshop with MutsumiNeiro​
​Workshop Theme
BUTOH is to encounter the unrevealed world by revealing oneself. Starting with awe, shivering, it turns into a great feeling. To be taken off your guard, fully open, and throw yourself precisely into the most thrilling yet unspecial moment. It is about entering, and when you are entering you are leaving. A flower is blooming, even as it is dying. Never stop blooming.
Each workshop is a once in a lifetime experience. Based on what we learnt from our master Yoshito Ohno (1938-2020), the most important thing is for us to make difference in dance is to GIVE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE. Dance is born and vanishes in a single moment. We give all of our life into every little moment. Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) said "I am more afraid of one transformation than a thousand changes". Even if you have great philosophy, techniques and experience, if you don't give everything you have into dance, you cannot encounter unrevealed possibilities. Only when you give everything, will a transformation appear. The dancer becomes a monster - a bakemono in Japanese. Here is where BUTOH begins.
Through careful and precise experience, we throw ourselves into LOVE METAMORPHOSIS IMRPOVISATION.
Dance is part of Cosmic Genesis, like a child licks and kicks a stone.
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​Anyone is welcome to join this workshop - you do not need to have prior experience of butoh. However as a 3-day intensive it may at times be physically demanding. Please let us know at the start of the workshop if you have any physical limitations we should be aware of.
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Schedule
Fri 13 December 2024: 6pm - 9pm
Sat 14 December 2024: 11am - 5pm (including lunch break)
Sun 15 December 2024: 11am - 5pm (including lunch break)
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Venue: Chisenhale Dance Space
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What to Bring
Please wear warm clothes that you can move in. We also
recommend a water bottle, and you may want to bring lunch
on Saturday and Sunday, although there are some shops
nearby. Free tea and coffee will be provided.
MUTSUMINEIRO
Japanese butoh duo comprised of Neiro and Mutsumi Yamamoto. They have been dancing together since 2012, after meeting at the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio. They have both also studied for many years with Mitsuyo Uesugi, who performed Melancholia - A Portrait of M at the Rebellious Bodies Festival in 2023. MutsumiNeiro's first duo performance was Tonight or Never..., which toured around Japan, Poland, Israel and Germany. In 2016 they opened their studio Galerie Ame in Tokyo. Their most recent performance is Pink River.
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​ASIA TRI Butoh Festival, Akita Japan 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY-lAApTIE8
Mutsumi
Born in Ehime (southwest Japan), Mutsumi started classical ballet at the age of 3, which she stopped after an injury during her studies at the Tokyo Womens College of Physical Education. She took up dancing again 10 years later, after an accidental encounter with Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno's dance. She then moved to Tokyo in 2009 to study long term with Yoshito Ohno, and has since performed several solos, duets, and group performances across Japan and abroad. She has also studied and performed with Mitsuyo Uesugi, and was chosen to model for Yuriko Takagi's photo book Issey Miyake.
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Neiro
Neiro studied Art Mime at JIDAI, and butoh with Yoshito Ohno. Between 2010-2012 he performed in Stefan Niedziałkowski's Mime Art Theater in Warsaw, Poland. In addition to his work with Mutsumi, he has performed duets with dancers such as Seiji Tanaka, as well as solos such as Bokutoh KI - Dance TANTAN at Theater X in Tokyo in 2020.