Tuesday Butoh Lab in Brussels
Moving with the invisible
Just as you can read the age of a tree from the rings in a tree trunk, you can 'read' a life in a human body. The body is a living and ever transforming sculpture, shaped by life itself. Butoh is a dance of transformation that originates from the friction between opponent forces. The Butoh dancer knows how to connect with this energy and to move with it - be moved by it. What evolves is authentic expression and original being.
The Butoh Lab offers a space to practice movement and share time-space experiences, as well as to actively and collectively research what is butoh today and to explore its legacy out of its former historical context. The Lab is open to every-body regardless previous knowledge or experience with dance or butoh. We welcome all levels, gender, ages and body-types. The Lab is guided throughout the year by various artists who share their butoh or butoh-minded practice and place individual accents on the content of the Lab.
A lab usually starts with arriving in the space and exploring basic exercises (ex. standing in presence, walking, body awareness, breathing, tension-release, conscious moving and being moved by, contact, ….) that will then be deepened through improvisations nourished by poetic stimuli. We make time for a sharing circle or questions at the end of the session.
The Butoh Lab is on a winterbreak. We start again on January the 20th 2026.
Gabrielle Weissen is a fascia therapist and practices Butoh, body weather and fascia in movement. “From the Visible to the Invisible, from Stillness to Movement,” is the title of a series of ten Butoh labs dedicated to listening to internal sensations, to space, and to oneself through dance. It is an intimate quest as well as a collective journey, where stillness and silence pave the way for movement. Regardless of your experience, the most essential is to be present, and to explore with curiosity and openness the dance that arises from within. Gabrielle invites us to let ourselves be guided by the body, to welcome each sensation, to allow space and movement the freedom to be what they are between moments of silence.
Practical information about the weekly Butoh Lab in Brussels
Location: Tictac Art Centre, Small Studio: Rue Emile Carpentier 34
1070 Anderlecht (Brussels) www.tictacartcentre.comWhen: Tuesday, 18h30 - 21h
Dates: 20/01 - 27/01 - 03/02 - 10/02 - 17/02 - 24/02 - 03/03 - 10/03 - 17/03 - 24/03
Price: 15€ per Lab, 10x fidelity card for 120€
Contact: butofamilia@gmail.com (no registration needed, come as you are, doors open at 18:00)
Find us on Butoh Belgium Facebook page and Instagram @buto_familia
Credits picture: Performance Buto Familia @ Crude Saturday, Tictac Art Centre, June 17 2023, picture by Irene Occiato.