Workshop : Denise Fujiwara – Zen and the Art of Butoh

Objective

Zen and Butoh practice are entwined. To dance and understand Butoh with depth, it is useful to understand the principles and insights of Zen that are embedded within it. Many of these ideas will seem paradoxical at the outset, but applied to embodied practice, they can open us to possibilities and freedom in our creative pursuits, and honesty in our performance.

Content

Using Zen principles, we will practice advanced fundamentals of Butoh. This can sound paradoxical, but Zen gives us keys to access the embodied processes that can deepen one’s practice of butoh; to cultivate resources for improvisational creation and performance skills that allow even simple movement to become alive and meaningful.

𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: English, questions in French and English

📷 National Gallery of Canada