Thursday 16.09 & Tuesday 28.09
6.45pm-9.00pm
£9/£7 conc.
"Again and again we are reborn. It is not enough simply to be born of the mother's womb. Many births are necessary. Be reborn always and everywhere. Again and again." Tatsumi Hijikata
Butoh is an avant garde dance philosophy/method that was created in Japan at the end of the 50's by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. Butoh is not a technique but rather an approach to dance which stems from within us and is connecting us to our essence as well as to nature, the universe, our ancestors, the elements and the cycles of life and death. Because of its Asian origins Butoh is very deeply connected to Buddhism and Shintoism. The main elements that it explores are metamorphoses, dance through imagery, presence, awareness and the tension between opposites. The aim is to free the body from its mundane preconceived set of gestures and movements and thus allowing us to access a deeper and more authentic movement and archetypal expression.