

Tue, Feb 18
|Tanz*Hotel
From the Roots - Module 1
ButohClass by DaniMayu
Time & Location
Feb 18, 2025, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM GMT+1
Tanz*Hotel, Zirkusgasse 35, 1020 Wien, Austria
About the event
In this Workshop DaniMayu leads back to the origin of Butoh as it was handed over to her from disciples of Tatsumi Hijikata. While meeting demons and monsters, transforming into alien beings, becoming plants, insects or phenomenons or being moved by the unknown you will come closer to your personal Tohoku* and Butoh.
In three modules we will meet the specific teaching of the 3 major representatives of the original Butoh :
Module 1: Tatsumi Hijikata
Module 2: Kazuo & Yoshito Ohno
Module 3: Dairakudakan
Module 1: The first part of this workshops is an approach to what was called Ankoku Butoh. It is based on origin teaching of Tatsumi Hijikata, which was collected, written down, preserved and passed on in its original form e.g. by Akiko Motofuji, the now deceased widow of Tatsumi Hijikata or Hino Hiruko, the youngest student of Tatsumi Hijikata. This module presents some forms and little choreographies…