Butoh body/Butoh tai: dancing through and beyond dichotomies

Toshiharu Kasai worte a very interesting article stemming from 1999 EX…IT! – www.exit.broellin.de/eX11/e-atsushi.html  “If creativity means inventing new things that have never been done, the primary turning point in dance lies in negation of movements. When the movement “syllable,” the fundamental component of dance, ceases to be a physical movement, there appears brand-new bodily activities that

Celebrating October with something Beautiful: “full empty dance of the heart”, Daoist interpretation and more

October to me  is a special month. The colours found in nature, and nature itself, are in full transformation: the yellows, reds, oranges bloomed with sun release their ripeness to reach emptiness. This is what I can perceive in October, the fullness of the summer dancing its emptiness. October to me is a time of

Online One-to-one and group work starting the 3rd of November 2014

I have just finished setting up the one-to-one and group work online sessions. If you feel on the monolithic side of things and longed for a space where you can be supported to return to a kaleidoscopic practical and pragmatic presence, then this is for you! You don’t need to be an artist. You just

Carlotta Ikeda: dancing to another life

On the 24th of September Carlotta Ikeda left our world to continue dancing in wider planes of existence. I have never met her personally though I had the chance to study with her dancers and recently I had the opportunity to invite Yumiko Yohsioka to Moving Bodies Butoh Festival, who besides being a fundamental artist

Here I am. My home and what it is all about

Hello. I am finally home. This is my personal website. It is dedicated to what I do and to all things Butoh in Dublin, Ireland and the spin-offs that may emerge from my researches and artistic processes. I am the director of Moving Bodies Butoh Festival – http://www.movingbodiesfestival.com – and I run classes at Dance