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INTENSIVE 4-DAY BUTOH WORKSHOP

02.01. 2013

PRACTICAL INFO:

Date: February 14 - 17, 2013

Location: Savoj Holesovice, U Pruhonu 52, Prague, Czech Rep.

Schedule:
14.2. 11:00-16:30
15.2. 13:00-18:30
16.2. 9:30-17:00
17.2. 10:30-18:00

Workshop fee: €140

Program: physical training, practice of and reflection on various physical and mental states, investigating and developing of uncommon body and mind use, dancing, breathing so that we can open our memories inscribed in our bodies and old (reptile) brain.

Participants profile: for all people interested in exploring of their body and mind, for artists and students working in fields of performance, dance, theatre, visual arts, philosophy

Booking: to apply send us e-mail with a short motivation letter; we confirm your reservation within 2 weeks

Information and registration: Katerina Bilejova, bilejova@hotmail.com, tel. +420 728 521 379

Sumako Koseki is a dancer and choreographer who studied traditional Japanese performing arts and Butoh. Her teacher was Tadashi Suzuki (art of Noh, Kabuki in a contemporary context) and Isso Miura (Butoh). Her training is mainly based on old Japanese theatre and martial arts, treating with so-called Ki energy and with the breathing opens our deep sensibily. Sumako is also well based in Western and Eastern philosophy and psychology (the University of Tokyo). She worked with many significant European artists (Grotowski, Barba, Leotard, Adrien and others). In 1980 she founded her dance group in France. Sumako Koseki works and teaches in the fields of performance, dance and theatre in Japan and Europe. Since 2002 she reveals in Czech Republic.
Sumako denotes Butoh as "the Dance on the Edge" where expressions and movements find itself by emergency and vital necessity. Then depersonalized interpreter can be possessed by various beings and states, logical order is introduced into chaos, edge and fitfulness. Mind intention is changed into spontaneity, so called humanity into animality. Not an intellect but a memory of a body animates us with archetypal remembrances encoded in our DNA.