with GIO JU
Primitive
A butoh gathering
In the Full moon forest
30-31 MAY 2026
AT Forest in Vienna
(arboretum villa kraus)
Intensive butoh exploring and Mysterious Togetherness
Release multilayered tension of body and mind
Touch something visible and invisible
Discover what we existentially lost
Dance the transformation beyond the boundaries
Become the the mystery, secret and flower
In the cosmic life resonance
Photo by Raul Bartolome
“I become a fetus in the mud, and remember the fetus dream.
Gradually and slowly I lost my outline of body.”
from A Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata
Fetus dream, unspoken words, lost souls, directionless wish and no boundary resonance, we dance at the forest where existential rest and purification resonate
From the primitive to human and beyond. Let’s dance!
10 hours Butoh Exploring
Full moon transformation forest
Life Ritual Performances
Sleeping in the nature with fire
Photo by Samantha Claire Zaccarie
Steps to liberate socially oppressed body and mind
Effortless effort_ Being moved by nature
How do tree leaves receive nutrients from their roots? It's through subtle vibrations. When leaves vibrate subtly, they transport nutrients from the roots. Similarly, when our bodies generate even the slightest vibrations in our tailbone, a mysterious power awakens along our spine.
Our ancestors say that stones are a place where the soul rests for a while. Rolling with a stone, its secrets are transmitted directly to your body. The more you let go of your strength, the more strength you gain. Let's find the flow of relaxation by listening to the water that flows through most of our bodies beneath the skin. Then, before you know it, you'll feel the wind and air supporting your body.
Ash Pillar Walking (Originated from a butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata) is a body of fine ash particles, supported by the air, moving between human form and infinite transformation. Then, like a dandelion seed, it floats off into the unknown, unknowing where it will take it.
Photo by Samantha Claire Zaccarie
Sink down in collective womb meditation with subbody butoh
Subbody is the Subconscious body and the Subtle Body. Through various conditioning of the 8 channels(Body, Movement, Visual, Audio, Emotion, Human relationship, World-self, Thinking-Awareness), we shift from thinking mode to subbody butoh mode where the body and mind melt into one. Our body remembers not only personal life but also the life and death of cells, the entire earth, the cycles of creation and extinction, dreams, imagination, secrets, and mysteries, the laws of nature, and cosmic resonance. In the cosmic womb meditation, we experience the most personal yet profoundly collective dance of life.
Resonance Touch and Existential relaxation
Rediscover something existentially lost
The ways we touch others and ourselves are similar and limited. We touch our visible and invisible bodies from various distances, awakening our bodily signals and connecting with the untold stories of life. Through this, we shed unnecessary tension from our bodies and minds and immerse ourselves in a journey toward existential relaxation.
Something existentially lost, questions about life and death that have yet to find answers. Female and male, normal and abnormal, light and shadow, self and other, freedom and unfreedom—in the spaces between, a unique body language that is neither this nor that, both this and that, will emerge as your own unique dance. The hidden, forgotten, forbidden… whatever. Moments when they emerge from subbody as dance.
Photo by Raul Bartolome
And Dance Dance Dance
Becoming the Mystery.Secret.Flower
the Infinite transformation, alone and together freely
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Original photo by Marina whang
From Butoh Himalaya (Polina and cobody)
Life Ritual Performance and Purification
Shared Dance Experience
Butoh is a kind of sacrifice that desperately discovers the world within oneself in the unknown darkness and illuminates the hidden world within the audience. It is the art of being to communicate our existence as it is, between shame and pain, longing and love, life and death, becoming pure life beyond judgements.
Primitive.Moon.Gathering
Multidimensional Forest Dance Gathering
In modern society, we have lost the true forest. A forest where we imagine a diverse range of life forms resonating beyond the narrow concept of humanity, filled with mysterious whispers beyond the boundaries of life and death. The cells of our bodies remember this forest. The body's pure language embodies new beings. We resonate with one another, inviting beings from dreams, imagination, myths, and memories into the forest feast. Returning to the curiosity of a child unafraid of the vast unknown forest, embraced by the full moon, we resonate and dance with the spirits of rocks, grass, goblins, and all things, encountering the forest of beings.
With Subbody Butoh Midwife GIO JU
A Subbody Butoh midwife with multifaceted roots in India, Korea, and Japan, and currently running the Dharamsala Butoh School.
Organizer
Jakob Brunner
He finds joy in movement, stillness, qigong and taiji practice, good food, silly jokes, music, dance and contemporary performances, community bonding activities, social re-culturing, mountains, the sea and everything in between.
More details will be uploaded soon.
Please email us with any questions or curiosities, Thanks!!!
Photo by Samantha Claire Zaccarie