In the class, we dance Butoh and Sensitive Dance®, a somatic practice that explores organic movement, generated from our roots, and subtle movements originating from the skeleton, which support dance. 

In Butoh Dance body, mind, heart and soul dance in union, Consciousness expands, transporting us to another space-time, a “dream-time”, where the unconscious, spirits, archetypes and mystery dance. We research for a state of “emptiness” returning to the “empty body” of the origins, a natural body, free from social and cultural limitations.  We’ll nourish the beauty of the Present moment and Presence, allowing dance to emerge naturally, with our breath, letting forms become expressions of the soul.

When our body and being are in contact with the vibrant emptiness, which permeates creation, we are free to dance the Beauty and mystery of every life manifestation: Nature and its cycles, human soul, inner landscapes, art images, myths, personal and universal memories.

 

In Butoh dance, we will enter a state of meditation that nourishes the present moment and Presence, allowing dance to emerge naturally and letting forms become expressions of the soul. We will dance transformation, the energies of Nature, inner landscapes, personal and universal memories.
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The workshop will be accompanied by live music from Tivitavi, acoustic and electronic sounds.
 
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Kea Tonetti: Dancer, choreographer and teacher of Butoh and Sensitive Dance®. Since 1979, she trained in classical, contemporary and Theater Dance in Italy, New York and Paris.  Since 2000 started a formation in Butoh  with several teachers, in Europe and Japan such as: Yoshito Ohno, Seisaku, Yuri Nagaota, Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, Joan Laage, Natsu Nakajima, Masaki Iwana Besides she has been long practicing Yoga, Shamanism and Tantra. In 2008 she founded, with Tivitavi,  Compagniakha, a butoh dance and live music company, which performed in festivals and theaters in Europe, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine. The dance critic Jean Marie Gourreau wrote of her in the article “Une talentueuse danseuse occidentale de butoh” on the french dance review Critiphotodanse.  Since 30 years she transmits her research in studio and nature sites, the company has a studio Spazio Continuum in Milano. 
 
Tivitavi: Sound and visual artist. Since 1991 he follows different Masters from Yoga to Shamanism and research about voice and mantra tecniques and in the sound with Djalu Gurruwiwi (didgeridoo), Mari Boine (Lapland singing), Saynko Namcylak (Tuvan throat-singing) and Albert Rabenstein sound healing with Tibetan bells.
 
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