{"id":35186,"date":"2025-11-17T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/?p=35186"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:38:13","slug":"butoh-jan-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/butoh-jan-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Butoh Workshop
Yael Karavan"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

17 e 18 january 2026\u00a0 |\u00a0 11h00 – 17h00<\/strong><\/h4>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Butoh workshop – The body as a vessel of metamorphoses\u00a0with Yael Karavan<\/strong><\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

Butoh is an avant-garde dance form, a philosophy, and a method that was created in Japan in the late 1950s by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. It is not a technique, but rather a method and approach to dance that arises from within us and connects us to our essence, nature, the universe, and the cycles of life and death.<\/p>\n

Karavan is proposing an intensive exploration of Butoh, starting from the philosophy of its founding members until its current relevance, as a tool of creation, rebirth and transformation.<\/p>\n

“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.” [T. Hijikata Founder of Butoh.]<\/p>\n

What is butoh? An exotic performance style based on spectacular effects, white body makeup, grotesquely distorted limbs and faces, and a grueling slow speed of motion? Or is it a form of physical training that releases and brings forth primordial memory in the body that has been suppressed by contemporary society? It is both and neither and something completely else all together. As a simple man from the street once tried to explain:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. All movements and dances, whose origins are unknown, are butoh.<\/li>\n
  2. Butoh is that which knows no rules or taboos.<\/li>\n
  3. When one person says \u201cno\u201d and the others say \u201cyes\u201d, then it\u2019s butoh.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In contrast with other dance styles, butoh does not require learning a fixed vocabulary of dance movements. It draws its inspiration and power from internalised imagery: Buto is a \u201cstate of continual emptiness\u201d in which transformation is limitless, and it is \u2018possible\u2019 to become any other thing. From another perspective, it is the continual process of self-erasure.<\/p>\n

    This workshop will work on the elements of metamorphosis, presence, readiness, contrast, dance through images, and tension between opposites. The aim is to free the body from its preconceived mundane set of gestures and movements and thus allow 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 Butoh is not only relevant but extremely vital today.<\/p>\n

    Yael shares nearly 3 decades of Butoh Dace experience, having worked and studied with Butohists from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation, in Japan and Europe.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

    Informations<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css=””]Select each of the sections below to learn about all the workshop specifications and the registration process.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_accordion active_tab=”false” collapsible=”yes” style=”boxed_accordion”][vc_accordion_tab title=”Who is it for?” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1763388530709{padding-left: 25px !important;}”]This workshop is aimed at professionals, students, and people with or without previous experience in movement, dance, and\/or theater.<\/p>\n

    Maximum number of participants:<\/strong> 20 people.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Schedule” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1763388538270{padding-left: 25px !important;}”]Dates:<\/strong> January 17 and 18 (Saturday and Sunday) 2026
    \nTime:<\/strong> From 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Local” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1687372197980{padding-left: 25px !important;}”]Forum Dan\u00e7a \/\u00a0Espa\u00e7o da Penha
    \nTravessa do Calado, 26B
    \n1170-070 Lisboa[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Participation fee” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1763388426579{padding-left: 25px !important;}”]<\/p>\n