Workshop Friday 17th
10:00 - 12:00
Venue: Eskus, 1’st room
Min Yoon:
Bam bam boom ______
Butoh / post/butoh workshop
Dancing with impulses
Of rupture & love
Hardcore, Softness surrounding
Surrendering
Explosive taste buds
Impulses growing
Loud Numb
Bam Bam Boom
What does it mean to dance with impulses of rupture, love, subtle and global disruptions... violence... not as destruction, but as a process and transformation? When we bring awareness and space to pain, grief, and anger, is there movement, connection, and healing as a natural impulse from our bodies? In this Butoh dance workshop experience, we will explore the body as a site of questioning and researching, where violence—internal, relational, and in the group body — can be confronted, expressed, and ultimately transfigured into something else _________? We’ll ask with butoh dance: Is gentleness and care the dance needed for our times of polarity and awareness of violence around the world? What is the dance needed in a world of constant microaggressions, polarized thought, and suppressed emotions? Whether with curiosity around intensity, rage against the system, or exhaustion of defense, this workshop experience invites dancing with vulnerability, and experimenting with our relationship with, next to violence, and find new patterns in how we can move alone and with one another.
With butoh dance and conflict studies, Min makes intimate, surreal, and psychosomatic dance performances and experimental moments to create moments of heightened relational emotions, permission for depths, and the emergent new. Min explores difficult truths beyond language through researching and dancing with a multiplicity of perspectives, unintentional movements within stillness and impulsive improvisation, and archetypes with the intention of a turning and new senses of beauty. Their dance collages intense imagery and physicality, stillness, and ritual. Min creates, performs, and holds experimental spaces for being internationally.