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