Workshop of Butoh (indoor or outdoor)

What is the individual body?
Is it truly body, which the skin divides the exterior and the interior?
But, what is the body without skin as border?
Do we really control our own body with intention?
But, does who else?

Everyone never exist independently or separately.
All are in the influence All are always changing the form among relationships with others with the earth.
Let’s hear the nature who is already with us.
Let’s dance the life in transforming form one to other.

BODY TRAINING
Mixed practices, including Yoga and Noguchi gymnastics.
Recovering body which resonates wholly by the observation of one part of body and of the rest which are always connected to this part, and also body which follow the external force: gravity

WALKING
Neutral walk which doesn’t have a meaning
Walk changing with mental images

IMPROVISATION
Research on the starting point of the movement and the reason by dancing various existences of the
life, natural elements and conditions
How and why do they move, wave, wind, fire, grass, baby, stone, tree, bird, cat, and sneak…?
How and why does the body move, in sorrow, in anger, in joy, in love, in despair, in bad weather, in
intense heat or severe cold…?

My dance is never anti conventional dances.
If anything, it is the extension of human being’s idea
and my fundamental principle of butoh is
on the discovery of the possibility
to metamorphose human body into all,
including animal, plant and object without life.
--Tatsumi Hijikata