Butoh Foundation workshop

Title: Butoh Foundation workshop Dates: 23-25 April 10:30-12:30 uur. Price: 50€/3 days, 40€/2 days, 25€/1 day - payment on the first day of your participation Text: Butoh is a contemporary dance/physical theatre form born in post-war Japan. Its style and philosophy vary among the practitioners and each one has a different approach to their own. In these classes Iwaoka delivers the three core elements in his Butoh practice – the body, sense of being moved and becoming/being it. Iwaoka wishes the classes give the participants a way to channel into their bodies and find their own path to this unique and mysterious form of human expression. Bio: Tashi Iwaoka is a Turku based performance artist/mover/Butoh practitioner practiced Butoh based bodywork for over 10 years after his first Butoh experiences in 1997 with Kazuo Ohno and Kim Itoh in Japan. Since 2010 he is deeply influenced by Budo, Japanese martial arts, and working on finding the nucleus of human expression and connection, in relation to the movement skills he has learnt. Since 2020 Iwaoka has revisited his roots for movement practice/expression i.e. Butoh in search of what his Butoh is. He attempts to fuse his oriental roots and Western perspectives to form a more proper view on ‘being a human’ in this world, wishing to disinter the universality of Eastern wisdom in order to help us understand what it is to be a human. Photo credit: Noel Rosäck