The Butoh Lab offers a space to practice mouvement and share time-space experiences, as well as to actively and collectively research what this practice can be and mean today for a new generation of performers, artists and mouvement enthusiast, with respect for its legacy and its former historical context. We invite various artists who, through their own relationship to Butoh, engage in dialogue with a group of participants. Together, we create space for experimentation, exchange, and reflection. 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 Butoh Lab strives to be an inclusive space where curiosity, research, and encounter are at the heart of the work.

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.