ButohWorkshop
by Ken Mai
Date:
18.10.2025, 11:00-17:00
Location:
OFF Theater I white:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Fee:
EUR 90
Registration: office@butoh-danimayu.com
About the Workshop
Ken Mai focuses on Butoh and Meditation world in his teaching.
Combining Butoh, Zen philosophy in his teaching.
He will concentrate on natural movement, breathing exercises, mantra, various methods of movement using the imagination and transformation. By observing the body, mind, breathing, senses, emotion, and the invisible energy of feeling can be found behind the visible movement. How they are related to each other. Listening and seeing the sound of movement and the silence of emptiness holds the key to open your creativity and awakening.
About Ken Mai
KEN MAI is a Japanese International Butoh Artist, Choreographer,Teacher and Yogi living in Helsinki, Finland. He studied with Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno in Yokohama, Japan, and also was a member of Sub Rosa Butoh Company(Under Byakko Sha Butoh Company) at the beginning of the '90s in Kyoto, Japan. Same time he was also a member of the German Expressionist Modern Dance Company by Otoya Eguchi in Osaka, Japan. He has been performing, teaching, and collaborating in more than 30 countries officially with various artists throughout European Tour, US Tour, Mexican Tour, Russian Tour, Latin America, India, and Japan etc. His art is based on Butoh and also combines his background with Gymnastics, Martial arts(Wing Chun Kung Fu), Modern dance, Ballet, the Laban method, Singing, Zen, and Ancient Indian philosophy. He expresses profoundly the life, death of nature being, and love through the foundation of the seed of darkness. He has also certified 200 hours of Ancient Hatha Yoga Teacher Training at Patanjali Yoga Foundation in Rishikesh, India in 2014.