Japanese Dance Butoh Workshop & Talk

On Saturday, December 6th from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Schmidt Center Gallery, we will embark on a journey into the world of Butoh, the mesmerizing Japanese Avant-garde Dance Performance!

The workshop is for +18. Dance experience is not required! Please bring clothing that allows you to move comfortably.

About Program: Butoh Talk and Butoh Dance Workshop

Butoh Lecture & Short Film Screening

This event offers the audience a profound journey into the mysterious world of Butoh and an inspiring perspective on this unique art form. During the event, Pınar Sinka will shed light on the essence, philosophy, and aesthetic approach of Butoh, as well as the Japanese and international Butoh scene.

The film screening will feature A Way of Life – Flower & Bird, a dance film by Butoh master

Yoshito Ohno. This film will offer viewers both an intellectual and emotional Butoh experience.

Butoh Dance Workshop

In this workshop led by Pınar Sinka, participants will have the opportunity to experience both classical Butoh through Tatsumi Hijikata’s Butoh Notation (HIJIKATA METHOD) and

contemporary improvisational Post-Butoh approaches.

The workshop offers participants a space to explore new possibilities of movement and to

develop their own unique dance language and bodily expression.

The meditative, slow, and breath-centered movements of Butoh deepen the relationship betweenmind, body, and space, providing a somatic and healing experience that enhances body awareness and inner presence.

About Butoh

Butoh is more than a dance performance; it is a path of being. Butoh is "Sincere Step", "Self-Realization" through the body of individual, direct and original dance technique.

Butoh is an avant-garde art form of theatrical dance which emerged in Japan in the late 1950s, influenced by Kabuki, Noh-theater, surrealism, German expressionism, neo-dada, French mime techniques, French and European literature. “Ankoku Butoh” means “Dance of Utter Darkness”.

Founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Ohno Kazuo. Butoh has two styles, one is choreographic

“Butoh with Darkness” and other is “Improvisation Butoh”.

Now, Butoh is one of the major art forms as the cultural scenes not only in Europe and America but also in Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. We can find many Foreign Butoh Dancers and Choreographers in the world.

About Instructor

Pınar Sinka is a Butoh performer, instructor, visual artist and the founder of PIArtButoh first

Butoh Platform in South Florida. Pınar started to study Ankoku Butoh in 2010; she researched Hijikata Tatsumi Notational Butoh / Japanese Avant-garde dance theater (Keiko University Hijikata Tatsumi Archive). She trained by Butoh masters Yukio Waguri, Yoshito Ohno, Tetsuro Fukuhara, Takao Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Koike.