Butoh "Death & Eros"
Standing together on the edge of the cliff. In the exciting sweet spot between almost falling and longing to take one more step on the journey to your desire.
How does your unspoken fantasy drive you? How does your deepest desire change your movement in the group? Have you always wanted to do a striptease as a corpse?
Today is your chance. Death and Eros as equal sources of your movement improvisation. Both try to push you off the cliff and hold you back so you don’t fall.
With little language and lots of movement, we will ask ourselves these questions and approach them. Your inner experience will be transported to the outside world through movement as a catalyst. Language is more than secondary in this process. The workshop consists of a guided warm-up and longer movement phases in the group, which are based on improvisation.
Venue
The Showroom
7 Shepherdess Place
London
N1 7LJ
Doors open 6.15pm.
Alexander Hahne
Alexander Hahne (he/him). Trained in Butoh dance by Sabine Seume (from the Carlotta Ikeda Butoh Ensemble Japan). Further Butoh influences mainly from Ken Mai, Natsuko Kono, Tadashi Endo and others. Further roots in movement can be found in ballet, improvisational dance, martial arts and Body-Mind Centering. Various shows and performances since 2010. ‘The Post-Queer Dilemma’ by Guy Marsan (2023) and ‘tracing NYMPHxFAUN’ by Mooooon (2023). Currently working on the project ‘The Human Butoh Box’ (2024) with Mar Mäander/Maren Konn. Speaker on sexual health, bodyworker and author of specialist books. https://alexanderhahne.com/
