Initiated by GIO JU
Life Power that blooms
With silence and butoh Dance
Butoh base blooming body, dance and life
Short term Workshop and Performance 2025
France Iceland Hungary, Spring to Summer
We carry infinite seeds, some new and some that have existed for thousands of years or more. These seeds appear and disappear repeatedly within our invisible body. Our visible body can perceive the dynamics of the seeds through inner stillness and can express the transformation of the seeds through dance.
Original Photo by Raul Bartolome
It is up to each of us to water some seeds that vibrate in the darkness of our bodies, our dreams, our subconscious layers,
and let them bloom into flowers of life.
shaking blooming
In this workshop, we will practice facing the signals at the cellular level(Qualia) and the sensations that appear and disappear without stopping. Sometimes we will just quietly enter the layers of each moment, and sometimes we will bloom a seed when life needs it. A flower of life that blooms desperately even in difficulties. This unique dance of blooming, unlike anyone else's, is your own Butoh.
Let's taste it together, even in the short time workshop, but the taste will be strong. The taste of inner calm and the inner explosion that life reveals when we truly listen.
The moment of blooming that shines even brighter after going through difficulties. And we start a different journey than before. The Butoh mode that unfolds without distinction between consciousness and subconsciousness, dreams and reality, visible and invisible, moments and eternity, me and the world. Just dance, resonate, let it be whatever comes and goes, together. We are more deeply, multi dimensionally connected than we think.
Original photos by Cheena Kapoor
“Be still like a seed
Flowers bloom with
the power of stillness" (Baekmusan)
Butoh base blooming body, dance and life Workshop
2025 June-July
France(forest)
Iceland(city and nature)
Hungary(city)
photo by Samantha Claire Zaccarie
Forest of colorful seeds in France
We embrace our diversity as we are.
We respect others' uniqueness as they are.
Discover the forest of colorful seeds.
It brings back various colors to everyday life
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photo by Samantha Claire Zaccarie
Workshop Flow
Preparation 1: Developing inner silence
Stretching to Break Habits of Body and Mind
Why do we repeat similar stretches every day? The language of the body is infinite, unique, and subtle, more so than we might realize. Organic ‘listening to body’ stretching will be guided, resonating with the condition of various bodies.
Preparation 2: Strengthening and Relaxation Training
Through our Butoh journey, we ultimately experience the freedom of infinite transformation. To embark on this path, discipline and patience must accompany us. Butoh is a dance grounded in the power of rising from the earth. The energy that ascends from the earth through our feet fills the dantien(energy center), creating a solid foundation for the lower body, while the upper body moves with deep relaxation.
Journey 1. Medi Motion & Shift to subbody mode (BUTOH mode)
Medi Motion is a meditative movement practice that helps release tension and intention from both the body and mind. Through this practice, we connect with our bodies and ultimately transcend their physical limitations. The Subbody, which represents the subconscious and subtle aspects of our being, is where body and mind merge into one. It is an ocean of infinite life history, free from concepts, thoughts, or judgments.
Journey 2. Collective womb and self research
We transition into Subbody Mode by exploring various conditioning experiences, opening eight channels: body, movement, sound, imagination, emotion, relationships, self/world, and awareness. This process allows us to experience Butoh Mode, which guides us through multidimensional worlds via resonance and dance.
We will be guided to mysterious places. This place may be a time and space close to the present, or it could be an abyss that exists beyond memory. In that space, I am both myself and not myself. Sometimes we are alone, and sometimes we are with others as we cross various boundaries and open the secret door together.
About Butoh
The Butoh that I perceive and explore is this.
Butoh, which originated in Japan as a dance theater of unique blending from traditional Japanese theater and post contemporary dance, also known as dance of the soul and death, which is a wonderful tool for experimenting the aesthetics of dance, resonating with the diversity of cultures, times, and personal histories.
Butoh transcends the limited human concept of modern society and embodies universal resonance, nature, mystery, the soul, and death through dance. It is a formless form of dance that leads us on a multi-layered journey encompassing art, philosophy, nature, life and death, and the mysteries of existence. Butoh opens various channels of experience through different fields of concentration and relaxation, improvisation, and imagination. It explores the deep connection of absorbing the earth's energy into the dantien (the energy center of the body), allowing the body to flow naturally like the waves of the sea. Ultimately, it fosters infinite transformation that transcends boundaries.
Performance by Gio ju and more
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