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Private Online Butoh Workshop
[Introduction of actual examples]
Holland - Japan
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We are pleased to present a private online butoh workshop with Joep Dorren who is prominent Dutch actor.
Joep received drama education at the Vincennes Theater (Paris) and has been active in many theaters in the Netherlands and abroad, as well as in popular series of TV dramas, and is currently exploring the development of his own theater language.
In addition, since 2017, Joep have been collaborating with our Butoh in the project "kitan; a seasons tail" (co-production of poetry reading, music, video, butoh) by Joep’s planning. These works were performed in Japan and Germany.
This time, he experienced the physical sensation of our Butoh.
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Workshop for Joep Dorren:
Lecturer：Sanae Kagaya （TOMOE SHIZUNE & HAKUTBO）
1st time：
Date and time: September, 2021 13: 00-14: 00 (Dutch time) , 20: 00-21: 00 (Japan time)
Access point: Zoom（Online）
Work:
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with the image of a waterfall |
| - Basics of body posture―looking for “one point under the navel” |
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Explanation:Application of the principle of leverage (supporting point, power point, working point) |
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The importance of lower body and the whole body |
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Pushing up the pit of the stomach |
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Experiment:
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A. Feel the difference in surrounding sensations depending on the condition of the body |
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B. Communication behind |
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Feeling when pushing up the pit of the stomach |
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Body as a vessel to accept the surroundings |
And so on
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Today's impression (from lectuler) ： |
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By being aware of the "pushing up of the pit of the stomach", it was touching that your senses spread to the surroundings and were strongly transmitted even if you were behind and remote (through the camera).
You may have noticed your body as a saucer that accepts your surroundings.
By being in such a state, I feel that I am being accepted by you. It was a warm and beautiful moment.
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Trainee’s impressions of today's workshop (from Joep Dorren) |
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- - I had strong impressions and I want t thank you for that. Also thanks to the company for this occasion: thank you so much!
- - The strongest impression was the notion that the body is alive and sensitive at all sites: front and back. It started already with the waterfall exercise, when you suggested me to feel the waterfall in front of me and also behind me. The body three-dimensional in the space. And we, at least I, mostly concept the body as a front. Realizing the back is alive as well, made me more silent, and emotional.
- - I also realized at that point that also Zeami talks about this: as an actor you should always have a point behind you. Now I understand fully what that means.
- - That happened the most in the last exercise, the experiment, that you were behind me. During this exercise all sensors of the body, the mind and the soul opened wide and very sensible. Yes that was a beautiful moment
- - Also an important moment: the actor opens the universe by opening him/herself, and thus leading the audiences to the universe.
- - Very important for me was also: finding the gravity point under the navel. I already did this in karate and t’ai-chi chuan; but completely new to me was the second centre point: at the level of the estomac, the little stick. I realized, that only putting the focus on the seika point, makes feel very grounded, very downwards, and the stickpoint at estomac level made me also feel going towards heaven: straight body, strong and worthy. That was also an emotional moment. After the workshop I went out for shopping, and I felt these two points constantly. I felt as if I hade grown two meters longer!
- - Of course I know; as an actor I always work with images in the mind, But I realized yesterday in the waterfall exercise: that this is really the basic part of our work: imagination. And that it is the base of our discipline: so keep always the images alive!!! I often drift away with my mind while performing. Just for some seconds, I start thinking. It is also the western way of making art: there is a lot of thinking. In your Butoh there is no thinking, there is intelligent feeling. Yesterday I realized: the discipline is, to stay with the imagination, to follow carefully the continuous flow of images, and to stick to them. That is also what is making your dancing so strong: you never leave this continuous stream. I also saw once in a video Tomoe Shizune Sensei talking about this. And yesterday that video came back in my mind.
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I have a question about the knees. Bending the knees is okay for me, if the knees don’t go beyond my toes. If I bend more, so that my knees are passing my toes, there it starts getting hard. For a short moment there is no problem. For longer: yes, problem; they start shaking and also hurt a little bit. What is your advice?
Anyway: I will go on for a month trying to implement all these discoveries. If I have a new question coming up, I will let you know.
It already gives me a lot, this first workshop. Thank you - Joep
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