Past Butoh workshop templates

Chats Palace workshop 15th Feb

Recall body scores of morning with Martin

  • Being touched

  • Touching

  • Automatic writing

  • Come up with new title re. decomposition and automatic write on it

  • Butoh face warm up

    • Gum chewing

    • Big face

    • Small face

    • Long face

    • Diagonal face

    • Eyes meditation

      • Endless

      • Complete periphery

  • Butoh amoeba

    • Meditate on formlessness

    • Rock pelvis

    • Let pelvis carry you about 

    • Form momentary sculptures

    • Focus on face

  • Butoh amoeba roll

    • Let legs decide when you roll

    • Completely surrendering out of body

    • Coming up into momentary sculptures

    • Really let face go

    • Let eyes go

    • Let neck go

    • Be completely in your internal world, don't worry about any external

  • Spend 5 minutes to stand up

    • Focus on meditation on wave

  • Wave in standing for 3 minutes 

  • Butoh Fu

    • Arms:

      • Choke baby

      • Smoke hands

      • Climbing waterfall

      • Flower garden on head

      • Touch the edge of space

      • Elbow climbs a staircase

    • Face

      • Black hole

      • Bad small

      • Flies on face

      • Eyes looking into brain

      • Needle eyes

    • Mix arm and face

    • BE ASYMETRICAL

  • 5 minute improv.

  • Music to use

Chats Palace workshop 8th Feb

Stretch slightly

  1. Butoh posture visualizations

  2. Butoh circle walk, many times

  3. Improv on the circle walk

  4. Play with the walk of flower blooming and then dying

    1. Moments of liquids leaking out

    2. Moments of bloat

    3. Moments of being eaten by maggots

    4. Being left out in the sun

Chats Palace workshop 25th Jan '19

  1. Butoh warm up

    • Roll as a naked egg

    • Spend 5 minutes standing up

    • Spend 3 minutes staring into the wall but seeing an infinity

  2. Walk length to length adopting more and more of the Carnesky character each time

    • 5 minutes

  3. Stand and breathe as carnesky character 2 minutes

  4. Be carnesky character frozen in ice and automatic speak as character 1 minute 30 secs

  5. Be carnesky character burning alive and automatic speak 30 seconds

  6. Be carnesky character stuck in the earth and automatic speak for 1 minute

  7. Create 2 images with 2 actions

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