TEMPORAL TRANSFORMATIONS: Butoh Workshop in Estonia

Led by Shinichi Iova-Koga

In the 1960’s, the avant-garde arts in Japan flourished in an atmosphere of protest and civil dis-obedience. Japanese identity was confusingly intertwined with American values and cultural transformation.  Within this bewildering environment, performing arts such as Butoh Dance emerged, touching on and deconstructing the extremes between Western modern dance and Japanese traditional arts.

“Where am I?” Our location hovers within the play of time. Suspend, extend and transform 
the temporal experience with physical precision and imagistic fluidity. Break through the restraints of linear progression. When the gates of mind, energy and body open, the dance emerges.

We build clarity and stability through exercises. Then we throw it all away. The chaotic stream of images and impulses enact their own logic, a wild creature in the woods.

The workshop will integrate improvisational training and form based guidance to welcome the unknown.