Butoh and Ancient Theatre Workshop Intensive with Atsushi Takenoushi and Imalis Ensemble in Epidauros, Greece
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Dance of a Tragic Figure II: the Orphic Descent Into the Role
Dates: June 2nd-9th, 2012…[/text]


taught on site in Ancient Epidauros, Greece at the Imalis Center for Ancient Hellenic Theater and the Ancient Theaters.

A full immersion workshop intensive, 64 contact hours offered by the Imalis Center for Ancient Hellenic Theatre of Epidauros in partnership with the Township of Epidauros.  An exploration through movement and archetype of Euripides' Orestes.  Part of the 2012 Workshop Series: “Shed the Skin, Trace the Path, Set the Post.”  A unique opportunity for full-immersion contact in the physical context of ancient drama.

Description:

Shamanic in both its motivation and approach, Atsushi Takenouchi’s Jinen Butoh is a dance-form developed as a fundamental act of healing and remembrance. Jinen means Breath of the Universe and River of Life, and Jinen Butoh its contact through dance. Jinen Butoh shares with the Orphic tradition out of which theater evolved as a Bacchic art-form a concern with touching these primordial principles through our living body, and cleansing through a process of acknowledgment and expression the imprints left upon it by the forgotten and rejected creatures of the world in which it exists, the pariahs, the abandoned children and old people, refugees, prostitutes and failed revolutionaries, the sick and the insane, animals, plants and places on the road of extinction…

The premise of our workshop is a simple one:  if acting the ancient role, was song, then this primordial “goat-song,” the voice of the body that is moved to song, is raised upon the goat-dance, and the setting of the mask as artifact upon the head of the performer, both its crowning and initiating act.  Jinen Butoh, for us, is like the goat-dance of the ancient Technicians of Dionysos.  Through this intensive, our ensemble and guests develop the movement and dance foundations of the ancient tradition of danced and sung theatrical performance in its healing dimension.

Expenses: €330.00 (Asteroa) or €370.00 (Sunny Gardens).  This payment covers one Lunch meal per day (workshop days, not including days off or break days), accommodation (7 days - 8 nights, see below), two (2) transfers to and from the Ancient Theater, and Teachers’ fees.
Airport transfers are not included.
Donation: €110.00 (suggested).  Please bear in mind that we are a non-profit, and larger donations are always welcome.  We can provide provide pertinent invoicing/receipts for tax purposes.

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