Workshop | Denise Fujiwara — Butoh and the Cyclical Experience

OBJECTIVE

In Butoh, we train the body and imagination by starting from vivid internal conditions expressed through intense physicality. We will work to reveal an inner life of authenticity and paradox, and to express our humanity in all its irrationality, ugliness, beauty, and joy.

CONTENT

Japanese dance and theatre works often express the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. In this workshop, we will explore the embodiment of cyclical existence in various ways. Using the cycles of natural phenomena, such as the water cycle and the life of clouds and flowers, as our guides, we will embody the manifestations of our mortality through dance and performance.