MELBOURNE WEEKEND INTENSIVE
BODYWEATHER & BUTOH
5–7 JUNE
led by TESS DE QUINCEY
NORTHCOTE TOWN HALL
This workshop is an increasingly rare opportunity to work with choreographer and director Tess de Quincey. Her workshops are renowned as forums for exploring perception, providing insights into the body and different sensory modes of experience.
This workshop will not only provide an immersion in BODYWEATHER principles alongside elements of BUTOH training, but it will also focus particularly on the unfolding of creative images that dance the body.
As a progression over Friday night through Saturday and Sunday, the workshop offers participants a thorough introduction into the BodyWeather practice and Butoh image work.
BodyWeather is a broadbased, comprehensive physical training which cultivates a conscious relation to the state of constant change inside and outside the body. It is an open investigation that can be relevant for anyone interested in exploring the body. Butoh arose in the 1950’s, but references origins in ancient Japan. It is a contemporary dance form emphasising images which explore extremities and transform the body.
The workshop introduces participant to three different areas of the practice which vary between high-energy work and more quiet meditative sessions:
MB (Muscles><Bones / Mind><Body) – a dynamic and rhythmic work-out which includes aerobic and anaerobic exercises to develop strength, coordination and a vibrant, physical grounding.
Manipulations – a series of precise forms concerned with stretching and alignment
on the basis of breath and weight.
Ground Work – a wide variety of exercises to sharpen sensorial focus and to develop sensitivity, awareness and the scope of expression through the body.
Participants should be aware that this work is NOT THERAPY OR HEALING.
BodyWeather was founded by butoh dancer Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku performance group in Japan. This intensive workshop will be led by Tess de Quincey who was a dancer with Mai-Juku 1985-91. Tess introduced the BodyWeather philosophy and methodology into Australia in 1988 and has developed the training further through her work in Europe, India and Australia. BodyWeather is the basis of her performance practice and underlies the work of De Quincey Co.
WHEN: Friday 5 June (6-9pm), Saturday 6 June & Sunday 7 June (10am – 5pm)
WHERE: Northcote Town Hall, 189 High St, Northcote VIC
COST: EARLY-BIRD payment by Sunday 10 May $150* OR full price $250* + booking price
REGISTRATIONS: To book your place click HERE
* Cancellations must be made before Friday 15 May to receive a refund (less $30 cancellation fee)
