JINEN Butoh Atsushi Takenouchi - music Hiroko Komiya 　　　　　　　　　　　: JINEN Butoh 4 months school in Italy '19 DEC

JINEN Butoh 4 months school with Atsushi Takenouchi
2019 December – 2020 March
Monthly 10days Butoh course
with residency in Toscana at Majnoni Baldovinetti Farm(Marti/Pontedera /Italy)

Butoh: Atsushi Takenouchi , Accompanied by live music Hiroko Komiya,

Assistant: Maruska Ronchi

photo by JINEN Butoh school

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2019 Dec 7-18 ( 7 Sat arrival, 18 Wed departure, *12 Thu day off )

2020 Jan 4-15 ( 4 Sat arrival, 15 Wed departure, * 9 Thu day off )

2020 Feb 8-19 ( 8 Sat arrival, 19 Wed departure, * 13 Thu day off )

2020 Mar 7-18 ( 7 Sat arrival, 18 Wed departure, * 12 Thu day off )

Time and term : 7-8hours/day, 10days course per month
*There will be also night session day. Depend on schedule, time will be flexible.
Minimum numbers : 10person, Maximum number : 17persons
(***After 17 reservations will be on waiting list.)
*Since limited numbers , we recommend early reservation.


   Dance with JINEN,
dance with all life which has been born from the universe.
Where do we really come from?
Long ago, at the time of the big bang, it seems that all forms of life composed on single and unique entity. If this is the case, hundred of millions of years have now passed, during which our respective lives have branched into different directions.
In the same way that a tree spreads into branches, the galaxy and stars have detached themselves from the trunk of the universe. The planets and Earth split off from the solar system. Furthermore, the earth, the sky and the sea have also branched and after this, plants and animals have subdivided. People, just like me, are also part of this ramification. And even variety of goods, variety of relics that human have made in the history, still more creative products from a machine civilization now are also part of this ramification. Nature and animals, people, artifacts and gods, such as all of life equally lies ahead of this branches.
If those hundreds of millions of years have really built our body, then surely, somewhere inside of us, we should have kept a memory of when we were universe and stars, of when we were earth, of when we were stone and river, and mountain and wind and fire. And also we should have kept a memory of when we were flowers, trees, animals. Furthermore we should have kept a memory of living in relics, of living with gods mythology, of believing wings as extension of body to fly to the sky.
Open the door of these memories and let's try and dance, transformed into those sun and moon, into those four elements, into those various life and various gods. Let’s dance with memory of various relics, various machines.
Those all born from the universe was life equally. And they were called “JINEN” in ancient Japan.
Let’s dance together with all this JINEN.
Through dance, let's remember that our body was at one with Earth and the universe.
Furthermore, if the leaf that I am, coming from this branched universe, could feel, even just a little, the weight of those billions of years, then I will realize that, far from being just some simple little organisms, I myself, just like others, form the tree trunk constituting the beginning of the universe.
You are the star, you are the earth,
You are the wind, you are the river, you are the stone and fire,
You are the seed of the machine, you are the relics, you are the myth of gods.
You are also the animal, imaginational creature.
You are the sprouting trees, shining glower.
You are all….
Through dance, the borders separating us from all those will progressively fade away. Life, under multiple shapes, is then linked to everything, and represents a dancing presence.
In the time of 6months let’s dance with all those JINEN as far as possible.
                                                                                                                                         Atsushi

* Time : 9:00(10:00)-19:00(20:00) including lunch break, 7-8hours/day, 10days course per month.
- There will be also night session day. Depend on schedule, time will be flexible.

* Course language : English

* Course and residency at : seminar house located in Toscana in country side.
- Every month one weekend, class will be hold at Spazio NU in Pontedera.

* Arrival appointment : meeting appointment at 13pm at Spazio NU (Pontedera) on arrival day.
- If necessary, you can arrive one day before at Spazio NU. Please contact to us in advance.

* Departure time : From Majnoni Baldovinetti Farm,we transfer to Pontedera station at 13pm.

*Practice 10days & 1day off , plus departure day. In total you need 12days.

* Every month 1 weekend, class will be hold together with monthly weekend Butoh course participants at Spazio NU.

* Every month on final day, each participants make presentation in studio, open air, site specific, etc.

* Final month Butoh event: solo Butoh and group performance creation. The last 5 days presentation performance of all participants. And solo Butoh Atsushi Takenouchi and guest dancers.

Requirement : This Butoh course is for dancers, actors, performers, person who makes training physical expression. Desirable to have joined JINEN Butoh workshop already. Or Butoh workshop experience, or physical training experience.

Reservation:
1. Please contact us butoh.spazionu@gmail.com to ask practical information and register form. 2. Send registering course deposit by bank, and email us payment receipt. Then, fill in the register form (2pages) , send back to butoh.spazionu@gmail.com Registration will be confirmed after this.

3. For the rest payment, please read practical info payment method, and follow it.

*The priority is whole 4 month course register. But please contact also for 2 or 1 month register.

***Early Bird reduction; There is early bird reduction. Please read on the practical information!

Accommodation: Majnoni Baldovinetti Farm seminar house. (dormitory with bath/shower/WC, kitchen, living room, wi-fi, terrace and garden with trees near olive forest. It is located in beautiful country landscape.

Board; Mostly by professional cook, the rest part is collective cooking together. Essentially vegetarian cooking using local fresh products of Toscana. Meals are from arrival day dinner till departure breakfast ( including day off meals).

Access : Nearest airport; Pisa Airport 30 km, Florence airport 40 km. The nearest train station Montopoli is 8km away. And also from Pontedera station, 15 minutes by car. There is free parking.

*On the first arrival & practice day, we all get together at Spazio NU. Second day after practice and dinner, we depart together to Majnoni Baldovinetti Farm seminar house .

Majnoni Baldovinetti Farm ; Via Mazzana n.1, Marti 56020 Montopoli in Val D’Arno Pisa, Italy