Workshop
The Corpse of mine
From a stone to a tree,
From a tree to the sun,
From the sun to me,
And from me to me.
These are all the exercises that we are going to try by the workshop. We will take our minds to a journey and on the way; will pick aback our bodies to a way with many pitches and valleys in front. To be grasses, to be sky, air, nobody and nothing… The most sophisticate thing to be, being nothing. But, that is our target to approach. Becoming nobody and do nothing. It seems interesting and at the same time sounds impossible. We will try to stay as a tree for years, perhaps.
…to sit like a stone.
…to breathe like the air.
…to move like the wind, water, sun…
It is possible as we have already got all those elements inside each of us. They just need to come up from deep of our existence to expose themself. The way seems so long. Then let us harry up…
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About The workshop
Length of each session:
3 Hours
Including:
45 min (Hathayoga)
15 min (Break)
1 Hour (Butoh and physically performance training method)
10 min (Break)
50 min (Butoh and physically performance training methods)
1) Every session we start with Cyclic yoga training as well as corporal researches. This segment takes almost 45 min of each session. through exercising Cyclic Yoga method, our muscles will affect on mind to perceive meaning of bodily existence. At the meantime, body itself takes influences from mind to get rid of mentally and psychological complexes as well. Calmness and concentration are targets of warming up through this part. This moment is exactly the time that we start exploration the common border between body and mind, between action and inaction, between dancing and station, but mobile station.
2) By the next step we take 10 min break only for considering emotional changes while doing Cyclic yoga tanning.
3) Last part of the workshop - which is the main part of it as well - is based on Butoh techniques. we Focus on the Subjects below:
- Body Stretching (Hatha yoga) to release physically or mentally contractions
- Rebirth and Creation of a new body for new existence
- Experiencing unusual bodily positions
- Discovering the Interior rhythm of everybody’s body
- Listening to and following the music coming from nature
- Moving on Haikus (short style in Japanese poetry)
- Balanced and unbalanced body training and gravity transferring
- Training on Mentally movements
- Natural body tries to stand up
- Perceive the body with keeping it motionless
- Creative images made by muscles
- Surrealistic feature of everyday life
- What my body asks me to show instead of me asking from the body? (What s my body and who am I?!)
- Getting rid of ordinary movements coming from routine civilization lifestyle
- Alienation of mind and body from each other
- Fantasy images of fancy stories
- Hanging body from the sky
- Moving slowly but not slow motion!
- Differences between dropping body down and falling down?!
- Waving as water, shaking as fire, moving as wind and quiet as the ground
- Different focus points of body in movement
- Drawing on the space
- Impossible situations
- Physically characters (sheets and joints)
- connected bodies (sheets are connecting the bodies)
