Jinen Butoh "The eternal transformation of life" - Japanese Art of Movement with Atsushi Takenouchi & Hiroko Komiya

The eternal transformation of life

Where do we really come from? At the time of the Big Bang, all forms of life were composed out of a single and unique entity. If those hundreds of millions of years have built our body, we should have kept a memory of when we were water, earth, wind, fire, plants, animals, and also many forces of nature inside of us. Open the door of these memories and let's try and dance, transformed into those elements. Through dance, let's remember that our body was at one with Earth and the universe. Life, under multiple shapes, is linked to everything, and represents a dancing presence.

Course content

All life is born from the earth. Humans have always been dancing on this earth. It is important to re-discover our body as a part of a great cycle. In this workshop we will work with our body’s movements to recognize the connection between nature/environment and ourselves through Atsushi Takenouchis JINEN Butoh Training. He will guide us into how we can create dance from this awareness, how to transform our entire environment into dance. We discover how body movement creates itself and turns into dance.

We will practice improvised dance in the studio as well as in nature. The classes are accompanied by live music, played by Hiroko Komiya. Atsushi will guide our work so that every participant will be able to create his/her own short solo or duo. On the last day there will be a presentation in nature.

Target group

This course is open for those who love nature and wants to experience the dance of nature and movements within themselves deeply and intensively. People with or without experiences in body movement or Butoh are welcome! In the nature side, every day we walk about 1 km to the site and do Butoh body movements in nature. Please ask any question if you need.

Requirements

There is no specific previous experience required.

Remarks

50 hours continuing education.

Bring with you

Clothes in layers for in- and outside - also: rain clothing!

Further Information

www.jinen-butoh.com

Videos on Atsushi Takenouchi’s JINEN Butoh:

• Nature side workshop 1
• Nature side workshop 2
• Performance STONE
• Performance TENMON
• "Ridden By Nature" nature environmental art film

Atsushi about JINEN

"Dance is devotion to life."
I learned this while traveling through the nature of JINEN. This has never changed since old times and will never change. This means I should dance to "my life", to the moment, and to now, which lasts forever.
I got my body from the earth. I got my life from the sun and the moon, my parents, my friends and my love. So I'll return the gifts to these universes. I'll return them to others through a dancing body and soul. When I see a tiny flower selflessly, I meet a dance filled with the joy of "life". And then, my body is filled up with the water of "life". The seeds of memory inside me become a bud.
The sounds of wind are the whispering of the earth. The sound of minerals is the muttering of machines. We hear the sounds of the universe through explosion and noise and stillness.
Oh, thousands of sounds, take our souls far away to our unknown world. As we travel, remind us of forgotten dances. On the sun and the moon, there are young men singing eternal songs to every place in the world. Let’s begin an ancient and modern fete of "relics of life? Holding artifice and nature - on earth.