The aim is to encounter the human being — to enable individuality, to help discover a person’s physical, mental, and emotional possibilities in a distinctive and rich way. Every person and every moment is ultimately unique, yet part of a shared world of experience.
Through the lived experience of presence, the individual and the performer become inviters and enablers of the moment’s potential — freer from the concept of success, from performance, and from the “social flesh.” A person grows from fragmentation toward integration, toward their own independent creativity.
Performances and encounters are there to be discovered. They possess their own value and suchness. They are allowed to breathe, to stand on their own feet — they move closer to being events in themselves.
Butoh is an embodied practice.
Butoh is imagery.
Butoh is a return to the beginning.
Butoh is the crystallization of time and space.
Butoh is the expansion of inner space.
Butoh is dance without a predetermined form.
Butoh is the discovery of energy and shape.
Butoh has the power to open worlds we thought were unreachable, forgotten, or whose existence we did not yet know.
The key is listening — becoming sensitive to interaction and encounter.
The door is our own body. The more you feel, the more you understand.
To influence and to be influenced in turn; to open to the moment and find directions; to allow the voice and knowledge of inner intuition.
Engagement —
We may seek something we long for.
We may step into a world opened by imagination.
We may begin physical work.
We may act together.
We may allow things to happen.
We may diverge within a moment created by another.
We are allowed to be — and more.
We may walk through not-knowing without anxiety.
We will move from one moment to another, allowing our movement, our energy, and our mind to orient themselves.
It is also important to wander quietly for a while.
We explore movement and stillness, time and space, and the point from which everything begins — what is the smallest moment of change, of form breaking (and of something new being born) that can be perceived?
To set something in motion — a creative seed, a small stone placed on the path.
Workshops, Health Qigong, and Butoh are suitable for all groups and individuals. Your own life experiences prepare you for an excursion to study your movements, presence, inner landscape, and your own story. No expertise in activities or dance is required.
Butoh
Health Qigong
Physical theatre skills
Natural presence
Wakefulness
Sound and movement
Workshops are about being in the moment, promoting relaxation and tranquility, and fostering interaction for work communities, groups, and individuals interested in developing skills such as active listening, embracing uniqueness, and cultivating inner peace. Your understanding of what is improved allows you to diversify your methods and strengthen your abilities to take action skillfully.
I customize training and guidance programs from various areas of physical theatre for performers, theatre professionals, and groups and individuals interested in performance and creative movement. Butoh provides a fruitful starting point for these programs. First, one must cleanse one’s being so that something new can be born. An actual body is influential and enriched with experiences.
Butoh exercises can be performed in various ways, but always by listening to one’s body and caring for oneself.
Butoh is a safe, creative bodily practice that helps us become more familiar with our bodies. It provides integrative experiences through creative movement, which is always born from our bodies. Externally, this movement may be undetectable, and exercises can be done standing, sitting, or lying down. Images, relaxed concentration, silence, and slowness all support the experience of being present. Feel free to contact me and share your ideas, make suggestions, or ask for more information.
Slowness and silence – Images become movements, experiences, and presence
In this workshop, we experiment with how mental images and tranquillity become movements and the stillness of our unique bodies.
With our own life experiences as the starting point, we embark on a journey to study our movement, presence, and inner landscape — our own story. Previous experience with movement is not required; your body alone is influential and enriched with experiences. Exercises are simple and aim to eliminate thoughts of doing things right or wrong. Your experience with the present moment is more important.
Slowness allows us to dwell on an experience and gradually train ourselves to feel the mind and body as one. Silence is the key to listening, which helps us be present. By its nature, dialogue unfolds into a broad-minded encounter with the self, the people around us, and the world.
The goal is to experience well-being, presence, and creativity and feel the joy of existence.
The Butoh workshop is for anyone interested in movement, presence, and creativity. The body is our closest world — and a profound place to begin. Movement that arises from our inner landscape becomes the language of the body, where mind and body exist as one, together, even paradoxically.
Butoh approaches this inner movement and invites it into dialogue with the world. It is the poetry of movement — dance without pre-given form.
The workshop begins not from shape, technique, or aesthetic agreement, but from experience, the body, and mental imagery. The body itself is expressive and rich with lived experience. In Butoh, inner images transform into movement and stillness, into presence and beauty.
Butoh is a vibrant and creative practice that integrates body and mind. It is both embodied training and an intriguing performance form.
Structure And Duration
Workshops can be tailored to your needs — from a one-hour introduction to a full-day immersion. Longer workshops (several days) may include:
* Natural presence training
* Composition and directorial elements
* Preparation of a final sharing or performance
* Performance implementation
A non-judgmental and attentive approach to the exercises fosters courage, creative joy, and embodied confidence. Participants often discover new ease in expression and may even overcome stage fright.
Practice Approach
A distinctive aspect of these natural-presence exercises is that we generally work without speaking and do not assume roles. Instead of building something external, we begin by gently deconstructing — allowing inner noise to settle and sharpening sensory awareness.
Through this process, our unique presence becomes clearer and quieter. A grounded certainty emerges: the confidence of being here and now, open to the world.
As our senses awaken, the world becomes richer. In opening to the experience of being, each participant discovers their own story — a story that is both deeply personal and part of a larger, shared human narrative.
Seven paths, seven gates, seven worlds — nearly seven years have passed since we began our shared dance and founded the independent theatre group *butoh.name Mythopoetic Theatre*.
Performing intensely, moving through many landscapes, spaces, and forms — passing through light and twilight — we grew by loving, trusting, and letting go. Now it is time to transform once again, to release. Time for new roads, new passages through different gates, time to encounter unknown worlds.
A new spring inspired us to seek a new name for our theatre. A new name is like a carefully emerging flower bud — what kind of flower will bloom, what will grow? How can we, with care and love, cultivate art, ourselves, and energy, releasing all that is good?
MO… a glimmer in time
MO… a breath, a way of acting
MO… the hum of the cosmos
MO is also the new name of our theatre.
MO — growing and opening toward the world, toward the true self, as conscious beings — MO continues its blooming and its dance.
Warmth and light,
MO Theatre, 2015
— and around the year 2024, MO Theatre also ceased to exist in the form it once was. New paths, new possibilities.
The dance continues in 2026 — and beyond.
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