Goethe Institut Presents Butoh Improvisation Workshop “Frontier in Body” by Yuko Kaseki

Circe – Experimental Platform for Dance and Theatre and Goethe-Institut Georgien presents Butoh Improvisation Workshop “Frontier in Body” by Yuko Kaseki. 

Yuko Kaseki is director, choreographer, Butoh dancer, performance artist, improviser and teacher, based in Berlin since 1995. She studied Butoh dance and Performing Art in HBK Braunschweig with Anzu Furukawa and danced in her company Dance „Butter Tokio and Verwandlungsamt” in 1989-2000.

In 1995, Yuko Kaseki and Marc Ates founded the dance company cokaseki. She has been involved in various international projects with performers, musicians and visual artists. Solo and ensemble performances, collaborations, and improvisations are performed throughout Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Australia, Russia, India, Burkina Faso and the USA. These works are accumulations of poetic and vivid images that incorporate the spirit of Butoh, and her performance aims to reflect the outsider’s existence.

About the workshop: 

Dig and cultivate body as a frontier to find out untapped field of emotions, memories and sensations... Research each of body parts in detail, in order to reconnect.

Observe habits of movement in social functions and challenge yourselves out of the comfort zones. Disorder is a way of creativity to find new avenues of physical awareness.

The workshop’s emphasis is to develop original movement through body awareness, sensitivity and also helps discover hidden dynamic energy.

Physical training is based on Noguchi gymnastics, elements of Tai-Chi Dao-yin and Butoh methodology. We practice for the whole body to be permeable and awaken deeper layers of sensitivity. We try to find the center of our body (Tanden), which is our energy source. Listening honestly to the variants of inner and develop this in relation to the outer.

The workshop offers the possibility to seek and experience in solo, duet and
group improvisations with image, element, space, and relationship. Through
intensity and reduction everyone can dive deeply into stillness/movement
and translate it into individual manifestations. It is important for each person
to find one’s own unique body, physical reality and exposure of existence.

Date: 25 October, 18:00
Address: Goethe-Institut Georgien, 16 Mikheil Zandukeli St.