17-18 May, 2025
Saturday from (doors open at 10:30) 11:00 to 14:00 and 15:30 to 20:30
Sunday from (doors open at 10:30) 11:00 to 14:00 and 15:30 to 20:30
Address: Park Studio, Am Treptower Park 42, 12435 Berlin, Deutschland
Description:
What is to give shape to an essential quality, to a certain soul or nature capable of creating a world? What is to host a spirit in your body? What is to turn your body into a new being? Butoh is about metamorphosis, but how do we recognise it? Hoping to find answers but always failing to, these questions will guide our exploration.
When we follow the most subtle sensations, the most delicate dreams our dances are most powerful, because to be fragile one needs an immense strength.
This workshop has been inspired in my latest creation Klara K. that was premiered in Helsinki Butoh Festival and will travel to Vienna Butoh Festival this autumn, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/hu50fLVvD2U?si=CK2MjIPy9x_IK65T
What more to expect?
- Unlocking the movement of the spine
- Deep work with the imagination
- Investigation of two elements: rock and water and their interplay in butoh choreographic creation
- Exploring facial expressions and how they affect the body
- Various exercises in duos
- Group work and improvisations (the last hour of the day will be an open stage always guided by me and supported by a welcoming environment that we will create together) OR work on final small individual creations, depending on how we feel
- Relaxation techniques, Naguchi Taiso inspired exercises
- Personalised feedback, if asked for
Prices:
130€ early bird
150€ normal price
[I have been asked several times if the early bird price can be payed in two halves, 50€ to confirm your spot and in May the rest. For me, the payment of the full price represents the security that you will definitely come on the 17-18th of May. However, if you cannot pay the early bird price in one bit but you definitely intend to come, you can send 50€ now to confirm your spot and the rest in May.]
Register by writing to my email: sofyashaikut@gmail.com
What students say about my butoh classes:
“Sofya carries Butoh in every muscle, every articulation, every musical selection. With a subtlety that is difficult to capture, she guides us to an experience of the body and consciousness that is both shared and deeply personal. In her classes, any movement, any gesture or intention is transformed into an aesthetic experience. Thank you for the magic.” — Alfredo
“Move and dance only from pleasure. Or don’t move, if that’s what you need. Everything is a dance: the noisy, the silent, the furious and violent, the still and silent, the swift or the still…. Only you know what your dance is, since the images through which you dance (or not) are uniquely yours. Sofya masterfully guides the dance classes to get to dance by being yourself. What if you divided every little sensation in your body into a thousand other little sensations? The freedom to be yourself.” — Cova
