Mari Osanai Noguchi Taiso Water Body Workshop
Hosted by Shoshana Green
See ticketing below!
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Event Dates/Times:
Friday Nov 8th 6-9pm | Sat Nov 9th 12-3pm | Sun 2-6pm
Event Locations:
Friday and Sunday: Joe Goode Annex 401 Alabama St, San Francisco
Saturday: iMPACt Center for Art and Dance in SF 1625 Bush St suite 4, San Francisco,
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Noguchi Taiso is practiced by a great number of Butoh practitioners today and has been incorporated by many well known Japanese Butoh teachers and pioneers (Yumiko Yoshioka, Ko Murobushi, Kan Katsura, Otto Morita, Carlotta Ikeda, Aka Maro, Ushio Amagatsu, Semimaru and Kazoo Ohno).
Noguchi Taiso is an approach to movement research and exploration which begins with a heightened awareness of gravity’s influence on the body and the body’s connection with the center of the earth. Exercises in the workshop train the body to embrace its weight and heighten its sensitivity to move from its most relaxed and receptive state.
The founder of Noguchi Taiso, Michizo Noguchi (野口 三千三 1914~1998 developed this technique in Japan. He was honorary professor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music ). Michizo Noguchi devised exercises that help you discover and develop infinite possibilities within your body movement
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Noguchi Taiso Concepts:
neutralizing your body before creating.
The characteristic of living things is their softness.
Softness is the richness of the possibility of change.
Relax your strength and use gravity as your ally to move fluidly.
Sensing subtle differences within the body.
The human being’s body is mainly (about 70%) composed of body liquid. It’s not solid.
Human being is a living water bag.
All movements dynamics are fluid dynamics.
One future of liquid movement is extremely complex movements both temporally (time and space),
wave circle swirls, complicated and subtle movements.
Mari Osanai is an independent dancer, choreographer, and Noguchi Taiso teacher. She is based in Aomori, Japan (her birthplace). Her early influences are in Tai Chi, western dance methods, traditional folk dance and the connection between one’s thoughts and sensation of weight.
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Refund policy:
This workshop is nonrefundable
Workshop is for all levels, beginners welcome
EARLY DISCOUNT ENDS: OCT 1st
Limited BIPOC Scholarships available. Email for info: butohcontact@gmail.com
Images:
Photo credits: (1+ 6) Takashi Unno, (2+3) Mitsue Nagase, Arts PLAN DU 合同会社 (4) unknown (5) David Joshua Jennings, (7) Azumi Oe