WORKSHOPS ON COMBINED ARTS
WORKSHOPS ON COMBINED ARTS BUTOH
November-December 2011
The enrollment closes on November 11th, 2011. URBAN BUTOH DANCE & EXPERIENCE IN THE NATURE
RECOVERING THE SENSES
by Master Gustavo Collini
THEATRE – DANCE – SINGING – CINEMA
The workshops outline immediate feelings, recovering each individual sense and providing the flow of expression towards others. The exercises deal with human growth, its processes and environment (birth, death, marriage and nature, with its human beings and elements).
It is a free personal and individual evolution. Old traditions and habits have to be broken in order to find something new beyond.
Is much more than an Asian aesthetics or showing-off the language of the body. Butoh is the reflection of the body over the body, an endless fight between immortal soul and mortal body. No scenic Eastern or Western art is necessary to perform the workshops.
“Butoh has been engendered for each dancer, actor or human being to discover inside himself a personal path, to recover their own creative expressivity. The Asian techniques provide us with a fusion between feelings and thought, sharpening the senses and integrating ourselves with our innermost Self”, by Gustavo Collini.
GUSTAVO COLLINI-SARTOR
Gustavo Collini is one of the few dancers of Butoh in the world that had the opportunity to study with the creative masters of the genre Yoshito Ohno, Kazuo Ohno and Akira Kazai, for ten years. He was chosen to give Butoh workshops in Tokyo in “Asbestos Kan” Butoh Centre. He also studied in the Jerzy Grotowski's Theatre Laboratory in Pontedera, Italy; in France, he studied "The Voice" at the Roy Hart International Arts Centre, and worked in Japan with the Japanese singer Michiko Hirayama (specialist in Zen and Gregorian chant). In Japan he also studied Noh Theatre (imperial theater) with Mr. Hideo Kanze and Kabuki with Mr. Ichimura Manjirou.
Nowadays he is an actor, a theatre and cinema director, a dancer and a teacher; and his career has expanded for twenty years in three continents - America, Asia and Europe.
When he returned to Buenos Aires a little more than ten years ago, he created Mundo Butoh Argentina, a movement that spreads the techniques of this dance through the TV and the cinema. In Buenos Aires he also has a study where he teaches artists from different disciplines such as singing, music, theatre, dance, plastic and cinematographic arts.
He was chosen by the “Latin-American Institute of Culture” to inaugurate the “XLIII Biennale Internazionale d’arte di Venecia”, representing Latin America with a version of “Romeo e Giulietta” together with his Italian company and school of scenic art “Teatro delle Immagini”, created by Collini in Venice in 1987. In New York he led a production directed by the legendary Ellen Stewart, director and creative of the off theatre “La Mama”; being invited by herself to act in Taormina (Italy) in the production of "Oedipus at Colonus".
Among his books and publications we can list “The Images of a Theatre” and “Kazuo Ohno, The Last Emperor of the Dance”, sponsored by the Japan Foundation.
With his television show Tango Butoh -a documentary-fiction series-, Collini becomes a pioneer in transmitting and making the art butoh known to all the Latin-American and Argentine audience.
MODULES
I - Urban Butoh: November 12th and 13th - City of Buenos Aires.
An opportunity to stop the urban time, entering the magical world of the Butoh Dance, and feeling that it is possible to reconnect with one’s inner self.
Saturday November 12th and Sunday November 13th 2010, from 3 to 7 pm.
Last 15 vacancies.
Experience in the Nature: three days and two nights in a cottage on an island in Tigre (Argentine Delta), within a historic land designed by the famous landscape architect Carlos Thays, at the Noel Island.
The place will count with: shared spaces, places to work, and spaces to develop free individual time.
II – Awakening the senses in the Nature: From November – Tigre Delta.
Immersed in the nature, we will explore the reconnection with the different elements: the tree, the flower, the stone, the water, the wind, the insects, the vegetables, the cane of bamboo. Butoh hikes, short trainings with different feelings of the feminine and the masculine, creatively awakening my body within the nature, opening the 5 senses and incorporating them as a magical experience in my to development.
arrival in the afternoon, closure after midday.
Last 10 vacancies.
III – Butoh Dance and rituals in the nature: – Tigre Delta.
Once submerged into the depths of creation, we will search into the most intimate of our beings. Through rites, symbols and images, we will contact ourselves with our archetypes, exploring their emotional, artistic and creative possibilities.
, arrival in the afternoon; closure after midday.
Last 10 vacancies.
Training: Samurai Dance, Martial Arts, Butoh, strength and resistance training; as we will also develop the feminine, the subtle, the flexible, the ductile.
Improvisation: For certain vocal and theatrical works, a memorized text of around 100 words (free choice) is required.
Choreographies: group and individual. Improvisations, ritualistic dances from different cultures.
DIRECTED TO
Actors/actresses, Dancers, Singers, Musicians, Plastic Artists, Therapists and everyone eager to upgrade or plunge into Japanese Butoh Dance, aged between 18 and 100. No previous experience required.
The enrollment closes on November 2011.
At the moment of closing, the whole workshop must be paid (a scanned voucher of the bank deposit will have to be sent via e-mail).
Reservations are taken with a 50 % payment of the total activities.
Once enrolled, each participant will receive the information about the elements necessary for the workshop.
REQUIREMENTS
Will of physical and creative growth.
Physical ability.
No chronic injuries.
Comfortable clothing.
THERE IS NO AGE LIMIT.
Previous interview or, if you reside either abroad or in the province, you can send your cv and/or motivation in 10 lines.
During the workshop the physical possibilities of each student will be taken into account, together with their personal training process.
“ You can dance like a flower, you can imitate it and it will turn out to be everybody’s flower, trivial, and lacking in interest; however, if you place the beauty of such flower and the emotion it sparks in your dead body, then, the flower you have created will be unique and real.”
Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010), Butoh Dance creator.
NOTE: Individual Sessions are OPTIONAL, and are offered to complement the team sessions. The ultimate aim of personal sessions is delving deeper into what has been worked on in the group, at a more profound and exhaustive level. The schedule of these sessions will be fixed by the trainer and the participant after due registration, and will take place in parallel with the workshop.
Contact and information:
María Luciana Sayanes
0054- 011 15-3623-0022
0054- 011 4773-8787
seminarios.butoh@gmail.com
Mundo Butoh Argentina, by Gustavo Collini.
Shows on Butoh Dance and Theatre.
Cinema and movies projections.
Exhibitions and other events.
Bookings: mundobutoh@gmail.com
