Begins 27 JUNE 2012                                                                                 Booking Deadline 1 April (reduced price) / 1 May (full price).
9 weeks, 27 June - 28 August | 15 weeks, 27 June - 10 October  
Nordic Butoh, is an international performance- and life art Academy in North, full of inspiration and spirit of new and old. The idea of the school is to explore personal resources of the individual, through creative work related to body, art, existence and nature.
The intensive long course, are offering rich possibilities of developing your art, dance and life through integrative art- and body work, by experimenting and educating yourself in an alternative open atmosphere together with others. The international students can stay at the course farm Art Culture Center surrounded by the beautiful nature at the island Bornholm.
The intensive training program, brings new inspiration and knowledge to your life as artist or former profession. It can be your preparation to another creative, bodily, artistic or academic education by 9 weeks intensive work or your certification for teaching and performing by ending 15 weeks education. The course has specific modules of creative and technical themes presenting integrative body work of improvisation, creation, investigation, philosophy, art, life and training. The teaching is highly professional and unified philosophy, body training and art forming, takes a holistic poetic aesthetic view at dance and performance art; as the necessary creative process of man, looking for new possibilities and essential relation between life, art, and nature.
The course is open for all motivated, who are working with people, movement, art in general, dance or body work. You don’t need any specific experience, but have to be able and prepared to work concentrated both independently and in a group. There’s no audition. If you need further information, please feel free to contact Anita Saij. You are also welcome to contact an earlier student of the education or attend the intro weekend workshops in Copenhagen 17-18 March.
Daily Training includes theoretical and practical work of the unified authentic body; improvisation skills, meditation, breathing, increasing energy, physical-mental focus and awareness. Strength and flexibility in body and mind, dynamic, movement, dance, alignment, centre, Ki and Ma awareness, release, gravity, balance, rhythm, sensitivity, coordination, contact, relaxation, tuning, massage, stretch. Followed up with creative interesting workshops of body work, movement, imagination and transformation, organic dynamic energy, choreography, land art, body landscapes and anatomy, perception, sensitivity, form, space, time and elements, Active, passive improvisation, animalistic and dualistic, harmonies, calligraphy, dead body, dreams, masks, intuitive art work of vocal, paint and poesy.
All training brings concrete work of kinetic and kinesiology together with experimental creative research; universal aspect of art in a relation to the personal, physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and nature element. Integration of the intuitive spontaneity, mythology and sub consciousness .The art processes opens deep qualities of poetical, existential and aesthetical dimension. Dance, music, sculpturing and painting is included.
Taught in English, you will be personally guided and coached during the 15 weeks course and get a final certification.