Workshop Butoh
Yael Karavan
21 and 22 of January | 11h00 – 17h00
Butoh and Metamorphoses – the Poetry of Images
“Inside this one body, there are various mythic things that are still sleeping intact… The work is how to excavate them…” – Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of Butoh
Poetic imagery is one of the greatest powers of Butoh dance. Exploring the present body, empty body, body as a vessel and the transformation of our physical states thanks to images.
Butoh is an avant-garde dance of transformation created at the end of the 50 in Japan. Butoh is not a technique but a method and philosophy, an approach to dance that is born within us and connects us to our essence, nature, universe and the cycles of life and death.
The main elements that will be explored in the workshop 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 essence of movement and archetypal expression. Questioning how Butoh can be translated into a European Body and why is Butoh not just relevant but extremely vital nowadays.
Yael Karavan has more than 25 years of experience in Butoh, during which he had the opportunity to work with the founders of Butoh in Japan: Kazuo Ohno and Motofuji San – wife of Tatsumi Hijikata – as well as with Tadashi Endo and the MAMU dance theatre, Yumiko Yoshioka and Ten-Pen-Chi, Sankai Juku, Atsushi Takenuchi, Minako Seki, Carlota Ikeda, Yuko Kawamoto, Akira Kasai, Natsu Nakajuma among others.
Foto © Anna Warner
General Information
Dates: 21 and 22 of January 2023
Schedule: From 11h00 to 17h00
Venue: Forum Dança – Espaço da Penha, Lisboa
Recipients: Professionals, students, and people with previous experience in movement, dance and/or theater.
Maximum number of participants: 20
Pre-registration
Registration is carried out using the form available on our website and will be validated after receipt of proof of payment, which you should send to our email.
Procedure
- Make your pre-registration online in the form indicated for this purpose.
- Wait for our email with payment instructions.
- Proceed with the payment of your registration, as indicated in the email sent.
- Send us the proof of payment to our email.
- Your registration will only be validated after we receive your proof of payment.
Participation fee
- Early bird until January 14: 75,00 €
- Normal price after January 14: 85,00 €
- 10% discount for:
- Students and former students of Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP / CGPAE / PEPCC / etc.).
Bio
International performer, dancer and Artistic director of the Karavan Ensemble, Yael was born in Israel and grew up in Florence, Paris and London. In her dance research she travelled across Europe, Japan, Russia and Brazil searching for a physical language of expression bridging between East and West dance and theatre. Her work is often described as visual poetry, drawing on elements of Butoh, dance, mime, clown, physical and visual theatre she explores themes of Memory, Metamorphosis, the invisible and the notion of repetitive cycles, as well as current urgent socio-political issues such as climate change, immigration, diversity and inequality. Karavan’s work is presented worldwide in theatres, galleries and museums, often in a site-specific context. She studied and worked with Butoh masters such as Kazuo Ohno, Tadashi Endo, Carlotta Ikeda, Yumiko Yoshioka, Akiko Motofuji, Ko Morobushi, Natsu Nakajima, Akira Kasai, Yuko Kaseki, Minako Seki, Atsushi Takenuchi and sankai Juku amongst others. She was a member of Tadashi Endo’s MA-MU Dance Theatre for nearly 8 years and of Ten-Pen-Chi led by Yumiko Yoshioka for 3 years and has been teaching workshops internationally since 1999.
More informations: www.yaelkaravan.com