Hello friends,
We have restarted the open Ankoku-Butoh session in 2020.
Our goal is to facilitate a space in which we can come together and explore this method and others you will contribute. In time we hope to build a group work to present. You may still attend even if you will not be part of the work. You are welcome to come and share the time in the space.
We hope to see this as an open studio workshop time in which our creative method is transparent and inclusive. This open session will be in flux as the group grows. We will still have a similar mythos emphasizing the esoteric approach to movement, awakening the mind, body and soul.
“We are phenomenon manifest from source. A petrified brick of mud of a grander source in need of a break from the rigid.”
We are still looking at different times and days that work for the larger group. Let us know if you really wish to attend but the dates are not working for you.
For more info contact josie: info@razethewhitebox.com or Julia : chookoolives@gmail.com
https://www.razethewhitebox.com/about
Here are the dates so far:
Saturdays
Jan. 18 10:30-1:30pm
Jan.25 10-1pm
Feb. 1 10:30- 1:30pm
Feb. 8 4:30- 7:30pm
Feb. 15 4:30-7:30pm
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Corporeal Reformation: Butoh Sessions:
All methods shared have a link to esoteric ways of looking at movement. A connection that we are phenomena, extended.
As before there will be times in which the sessions will be focused on a specific work. During these times we will be allowing others to join as we build. We will flow and change as things are needed having your shared co-creation and presence.
During a general session we will start with a warm up, a floor cleaning guided meditation. This cleaning "form" is the mood in which we hope to approach movement and its greater meaning in this space. This will usually transition to strength and flexibility training, transitioning to more complex ways to awaken the body and mind while accessing the spirit. At times there will be some partner work and guided meditations accessing the primordial darkness.
Sessions vary reflecting the needs of the time and group. Please come with a willingness to sweat, work, play, imagine, share, a willingness to listen to your bodies and other bodies, a willingness to speak what you feel at the moment, a sense of adventure and the freedom to get messy with a beautiful heaviness that only mother nature can provide. All levels welcome adapt to your present body.
Expanding the group,
josie j (humbly speaking for the group)
Julia Hays (ever present ally and co-facilitator)