B U T O H W O R K S H O P
Connection between Body and JINEN
by Atsushi Takenouchi

The success of last yearﾕs workshop makes that for the second time Butohdancer Atsushi Takenouchi will come to Amsterdam.
During an 8-days workshop, taking place from 30 May till 6 June, he will give
you the opportunity to meet his deep and intense way of working and to experience with your own body and mind the strong Butohtechnique.

Atsushi Takenouchi, originally from Japan, started Butohdance at very young age.
Kazuo Ohno and his son Yoshito Ohno were his teachers.
Since 1986 he has been working on his own JINEN Butoh. From this time he travelled many places around the world, doing performances and giving workshops. Atsushi Takenouchi teaches dancers and performers how to connect to the bodyﾕs organic history and how to guide inner movements into (Butoh)dance with awareness of each state passed.
His work from the last years is a close cooperation with musician Hiroko Komiya from Kyoto Japan.

The workshop Connection between Body and JINEN will concentrate on the Butohtechnique which is a key for inner movement and how to compose this movement into (Butoh)dance. And create a solo/ duo piece.
- The first step is that we experience our inner movement which occurs from the outward condition; our body putted in various situations or surroundings.
- Next step is the internal condition like various emotions, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, etc. We put our body in that particular emotional state.
- Further we explore our body by transforming. Imagine a human body covered over with numerous tentacles, a waterfall running inside. Being a stone, tree, insect, etc.
- If the weather alows us, there will be also nature side practice and occasion to dance there. The last days will Atsushi lead our work into creation and presentation of each participantﾕs short solo/ duo piece.
Hiroko Komiya will be present, inspiring our dance with live music!

The workshop is ment for dancers, actors and performers.
If you are interested but considering yourself without the required experience, please do contact us! (see appliance and info).
Date of the workshop: 30th of May - 6th of June
Workingtime: 10:00am.- 04:30pm. (included break)
Place: CREA-studio 310, Turfdraagsterpad 17 in Amsterdam
Maximal number of participants: 20*
Appliance and info: Nell Berger, tel.: 020-6120721/ nellamontana@yahoo.com
Maud Nicolaas, tel.: 06-25416349/ maudnicolaas@yahoo.com