Butoh Workshop

Workshop around Hijikata Tatsumi’s words “Sickened Dance Princess”

by Yuko Kominami

“I let my elder sister live in my body. When I am absorbed in creating a dance, she tears offdarkness within my body and devours it more than she needs; when she stands up in my body, Isit down automatically; when I fall, she falls….” (Being jealous of dog’s veins)

The workshop delves into the founder of butoh Tatsumi Hijikata’s words, which is at the sametime butoh-scores. We will explore how his words and images are used by deconstructingestablished language structures – “by incessantly dilating a suffocated passage between meaning and sensing” (Kuniyoshi 2004) – to let appear the extremely concrete and paradoxicalworld of his dance body that senses all and always in metamorphosis.

The workshop consists of experimentation with his text from “Yameru-maihime” (sickened dance princess) and tryingexercising with words from Yukio Waguri’s “Butoh-Kaden” (the noted dance score from Hijikata’srehearsals).

Dates and times

Sat 7th and Sun 8th Dec 2024

12h30-16h30

Registration.

Full price: 100€

Kulturpass: 50€

Participation is limited. To register, please, send an email to info@vedanza.org and pay the registration fee mentioning “your name Butoh Workshop date” to

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Contact

VEDANZA STUDIOS – 18 rue Louvigny, L-1946

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