Butoh, dance, performance & life art education at Bornholm, Denmark
Art human nature intensive course/education start 27 June 2011. Registration deadline April(reduced price)/1 May (full price)
15 weeks or 9 weeks:
Description: Nordic Butoh, is an international performance- and life art Academy in North, full of inspiration and spirit of new and old. The idea of the school is to explore personal resources of the individual, through creative work related to body, art, existence and nature.
The intensive long course, are offering rich possibilities of developing your art and life through integrative art- and body work, by experimenting and educating yourself in an alternative open atmosphere together with others. The international students can stay at the course farm Art Culture Center Baekkelund, surrounded by the beautiful nature.
Art human nature: Intensive training program, bringing new inspiration to your life or former profession. It can also be your preparation to another creative, bodily, spiritual, artistic or academic education. After ending 15 weeks you get a certification and can attend a performance platform. The course has specific modules of creative and technical themes presenting integrative work of improvisation, creation, investigation, philosophy, art, life and training. The 15 weeks ends up with a camp in South France. The teaching unified philosophy, body training and art forming, takes a holistic poetic aesthetic view at dance and performance art; as the necessary creative process of man, looking for new possibilities and essential relation between life, art, and nature. Thoughts and methods are inspirited of Butoh.
Purpose: Is to stimulate personal resources of the individual either as artist or not. To give everyone tools both technical and creative to develop physical and mental skills, awareness and confidence through artistic, poetic and mindful work.
Who can attend: The course is open for all motivated, who are working with people, movement, art in general, dance or body work. You don’t need any specific experience, but have to be ready and prepared to work concentrated both independently and in a group. There’s no audition. If you need further information, please feel free to contact Anita Saij. You are also welcome at the Butoh weekend workshops in March as an introduction.
15 weeks enables you: To develop as a creative coach, body trainer, somatic practitioner, art teacher, pedagogue, therapist, artist as dancer, actor, painter, instructor, chorographer, musician, painter etc. or just as inspiration or development of your body confidence and your personal life in general.
Daily training: Includes theoretical and practical work of the unified authentic body; improvisation skills, meditation, breathing, increasing energy, physical-mental focus and awareness. Strength and flexibility in body and mind, dynamic, movement, dance, alignment, centre, Ki and Ma awareness, release, gravity, balance, rhythm, sensitivity, coordination, contact, relaxation, tuning, massage, stretch. Followed up with creative interesting workshops of body work, movement, imagination
Classes: Are going on in the beautiful studio of the farm and in the fantastic nature. Every day includes partner- and group existences. It is a part of the collective work and the creative process to share experience and information, to give and receive personal feedback and analyze the daily work. Each teaching period will end up in a creative work.
The language is English (comprehensive). You will be personally guided and coached during the 15 weeks course and get a final certification. Anita Saij is directing leader of the daily classes. Guest teachers are invited during the 15 weeks. The Art Human Nature program includes all workshops and camps offered in the complete year program, so the students meet across the courses.
Butoh: Stimulates all our senses and resources, both physical and mental. It makes us ready to move and to be moved. Awake the creative as well the bodily ability, increasing innovative potentials, life balance, freedom, heath and happiness either for art or life.
Teaching hours: 15 weeks education program: 27 June - 10 October: (510 hours).
9 weeks intensive program: 27 June - 28 August: (306 hours).
Price: 15 weeks: DKK 27.600,- / Euro 3.700,- (reduced price). DKK 30.600,- / Euro 4.100,- (Full price).
9 weeks: DKK 15.400,- / Euro 2.100,- (reduced price). DKK 18.400,- / Euro 2.500,- (Full price).
Price Includes the enrolment deposit DKK 3.000,- / Euro 400,- and free lodging at the Art Culture Center. Reduced price is if we receive the enrolment deposit at the latest before the date of the first booking deadline 1 April. We can offer some of the low budget students a reduced price max 50% of the full price in the meaning of work exchange.
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