Masaki Iwana
International butoh dance workshops

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(#6/2009 Spring)

The Intensity of Nothingness

With the five kanji characters, 'han-gi-tai-to-kan' (grilling. sacrifice great nature, dance, mirror), butoh's founder, Tatsumi Hijikata, encapsulated the importance to dancing of sacrificing our own body and soul and treating nature as our mirror, or teacher. Through these words, he urged that we dance a material entity hidden within our body, transcending society, institutions and norms. Once we perceive our body as a material entity, morals, dark intentions, desires, concepts of beauty, life and death, violence and eros become like tiny leaves and are swept along by a torrent into a vortex of the immensely truthful nothingness existing within all the blameless origins of the universe. For dancers this nothingness must have intensity. ( Masaki Iwana )

 

1) Dates:17-31 May 2009

  2) Place: At La Maison du Buto Blanc studio in Normandy,
150km south-west of Paris.

           (adress : La Perrotiere - 61400 Reveillon - France)

3) Enter: 15th May (Friday) before 20h

4) Depart: 1 June (Monday) after 12h

 

5) Duration:=5h/day,5days/week,totally 50 hours.

     +2 days (3 seances) performances for Festival Danse Directe #12

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  6) Number of participants:12 persons including 1 assistant

 

7) Condition of participation: ones who has worked with Masaki Iwana

8) Fee: 450 euros including lodging & utility

 

9)  Boards: approximately 5 euros per day (every lunch and the holidays term are not included)

10) Applications terms: 1-31 March 2008

 

. If you wish to participate in this project, please send us your name (male, femal ) and contact address with  the Key-words

 <<hope to participate in Spring 09051731>> during the application terms above (10) by fax or E-mail

( If you will send us by E-mail, please do not send photo attachments that exceeds 300 kb.Due to our internet limitations, we cannot accept large files. Thank you.)

 

or post mail by printed letters (we can't accept hand writing) to the following address. Then more detailed information, including the method of payment, will be sent to you in two weeks after the last day of application, along with a registration card.

 

 
In addition :

 

(1) If you wish to join this Normandy seminar for the first time, you are kindly requested to send us a small biography and some infomation about your dance approach, Also, please tell us how you learned about this project (please write by whom).

(2) Even if you have worked with Masaki IWANA, please write some about you, hopefully with a face photo.

(3) Please be sure to write your name and adress by printed letter. (If we cannot read your writing forgive us even if we do not contact you).
 

APPLICATION AND MAILING ADDRESS

 

Masaki IWANA: La Perrotiere 61400 Reveillon-France

tel : 33-(0)974621031 / 0033-62959 5245

E-mail:  [email protected]
Fax: 0033-1-4380 4186

web site:  http://www.iwanabutoh.com