SAFT is organising  the following workshops:

MA - Butoh

Pedagogue: Tadashi endo (JAP/DE)

Dates: Friday 6th - Sunday 8th November 2009

Workshop(s): Workshop level 1 (beginners), Workshop level 2 (advanced)

Venue: Studium Actoris Theatre - Tøihusgata 41, Gamle Fredrikstad, Norway

Organizers: Studium Actoris /SAFT in cooperaton with Østfold Teater

TADASHI ENDO, pupil of the great butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, found his own way of dance which he calls “Butoh - MA”. MA is a very important word in zen buddhism which has two

meanings: the “emptyness” and “the space between the things”.

When Tadashi Endo is teaching, it is not only hard warming up, improvisations and choreographical work, he also tries to give a deap view into the butoh philosophy, tells a lot about what Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata were thinking and about their lives as “butoist”.

But he always tries to let the students search for their own butoh.

Like Kazuo Ohno says;”everybody can dance Butoh” but may be not the Japanese

butoh, everybody can find his/her own movements but in the sense of butoh.

To succeed in this resesarch you need emptiness so that new ideas and new imaginations with new patterns of movements can grow in your mind and in your body.

Tadashi Endo has the position as a guest professor at the Hochschule für Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany, The Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Israel and at the Nucleo Interdisciplinar des Pesyuisas Teatrais, Unicamp, University Campinas, Brazil.

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Thank you for your interest and participation. We wish you welcome next time!