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A. Dance Method

What is the body for dancers? What do you need to acquire to become a dancer? In this Dance Method workshop, you will come to understand the structure of the body, and comprehend the space, time, energy and other elements in need for a flight to creativity. You will also learn the wisdom of the body which enables you to move without injury in a more natural, unconstrained, daring and free manner.

A-1　KO MUROBUSHI (Tokyo)

In this session, You will try to think about possibilities/impossibilities of the body through “Butoh”. First, you will return the “act of dancing” to the bosom of nature and make the body for “Butoh” a multiple number of places of encounter. You will unfold and train the potential of the body, and meet “Butoh” in the process of free creation and play. Anybody of any age and experience can participate. Let us move the body together.

[Date]　4/11(Fri) 18:30-21:30
4/12(Sat) &4/13(Sun) 11:00-13:00、14:00-16:00　 5 classes
[Place]　Shiga Kaikan
[Price]　￥13,000/all　￥3,000/1class
[Capacity]　25

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A-2　SYLVAIN PRUNENEC ( France )

* “Angers-Kyoto Dance Exchange” Audition
During the class we particularly insist on two notions. One is the nature of the body (compact / fluid, segmented / global body) working on different qualities of the movement and on the disponibility of all parts of the body. The second one is the pressure of the supports on the floor. This pressure, felt and controlled by the dancer, engages the movement and the presence of the whole body. Balance / imbalance, acceleration / deceleration, rebound / suspension, are managed from this attention took on our supports on the floor. The choreographic phrases permit the synthesis of these notions, with musicality and pleasure of a real physical engagement (travels, jumps).

[Date]　4/26(Sat) - 5/5(Mon) (*Thu. 1 May no lesson) 10:30～12:30 　9 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Atrium (*4/27 Studio 7)
[Price]　￥20,000/all　￥3,000/1class
[Capacity]　25

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A-4　JUNG YOUNG-DOO ( Korea )

This is a training to deepen your consciousness of respiration, weight and the floor, to capture the flow of energy more effectively, and to make your movement freer and more creative. He is highly praised as an excellent choreographer. What makes his rare quality composed of elements of the Orient and the West? This lesson will surely awake your body, and is most suitable for those who want to re-look at your body as an Oriental.

[Date]　5/1(Thu)-5/5 (Mon) 10:30-12:30 　5 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Free Space
[Price]　￥12,000/all　￥3,000/1class
[Capacity]　25

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B. Body Conditioning 

This program focuses on the awareness of our bodies, becoming conscious of our inner workings and the interconnection of this into movement.

NUNO BIZARRO ( France )

A morning lesson to awake the sensory perception of the body very slowly and gently. It will use such methods as Feldenkrais Method or “meditation through movement” for encouraging the tuning of the neural circuit, the integration of the physical function, and the awareness through movement. It will help you to become aware of your habit in moving your body and its stiffness, and to stretch out with your feeling for more effective movement.

[Date]　 4/26(Sat) - 4/30(Wed) 10:30-12:30 　5 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Free Space
[Price]　￥12,000/all　￥3,000/1class
[Capacity]　25

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C. Creation

The internationally renowned choreographers will teach their unique dance vocabularies as well as the heart of their creation. Themes are given to participants encouraging their personal creative awakening. You shouldn’t miss the showing scheduled for the last day. (except C-3)

C-1　DANIEL YEUNG (China)

He will search, together with participants, ideas for a new solo to be released in Hong Kong this June. His concept of work is the perception of body in Oriental Medicine. You will be able to share in common his own thoughts and ideas full of wits and humor about relationship between the drastically changing modern society and the swinging Asian body.

[Date]　 4/26(Sat)-5/6 (Tue) 　 15:45-18:15 　*5/1(Thu) off 　*5/6(Tue) Showing 17:00- 　9 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Free Space
[Price]　￥25,000/all　￥3,500/1class
[Capacity]　25

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C-2　ERIC LAMOUREUX ( France )

You will share with him experiences of using the body, and meet with the moment when the body reacts spontaneously and instinctively, and multiple crossroads where energies get blended, exchanged and enriched. In crossing with others continuously, you will capture the condition, relationship, and changes through your body, and move forward to the next step of your own, through which your dance will be created.

[Date]　 4/26(Sat)-5/6 (Tue) 　 18:30-21:00 　*5/1(Thu) off 　*5/6(Tue) Showing 18:00- 　9 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Atrium
[Price]　￥25,000/all　￥3,500/1class
[Capacity]　25

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C-3　KYOMI ICHIDA & THOMAS DUCHATEIET ( France )

*Kyoto-Kobe Dance Exchange Workshop
This workshop starts with a class on technique, applies the methods of Tanztheater developed by Pina Bausch, goes through a series of improvisation and dialogue. It will eventually draw out creativity inherent in individuals, and let you experience the process of creation of Tanztheater. On the 9th, with a special permission of Pina, the workshop will give you a chance to learn a part of a work choreographed by Pina. This is a special workshop linked with their performance “Savon ~between zero and infinite~ (tentative translation)” scheduled for 17th and 18th May at Kobe Art Village Center.

［Date］5/9(Fri) 18:30-21:30
10(Sat), 11(Sun) 11:00-16:00 (including intermission ) 3 days
［Place］ Kyoto Art Center / Atrium
［Price］ ￥13,000/all　￥3,500 (only 5/9)
［Capacity］ 25

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D. Contact/Partnering

Now that Contact is a must for contemporary dancers. It renders a great deal of influence to wide-ranging genres of society such as counseling and community art. Contact/Partnering creates a venue where reality and imagination of your own body and others’ meet. This workshop aims to nurture your body’s ability to “listen to” the others’ body, to construct conversation unique to you and your partners, to search for universal “dialogue between the bodies”, and to tap the creativity of communication in the body.

D-1　KOSEI SAKAMOTO & YUKO MORI ( KYOTO )

Basic course on Contact
This course emphasizes your body’s listening to and deepening understanding of “others’ body” of different characteristics through various movements created by the bodies. It also focuses on how to respect the sensation of your body and the others’ and to communicate with each other through a sequence of contacts with “others”. Let’s try it out by drawing on all of your five senses and the sixth! (Those without experience of dance are also welcome.)

［Date］ 4/4(Fri) 18:30-21:30
5(Sat), 6(Sun) 11:00-13:00, 14:00-16:00　 5 classes
［Place］ Shiga Kaikan
［Price］ ￥13,000/all　￥3,000/1 class
［Capacity］ 25

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D-2　Contact Jam (Applicants must have some Contact experience and have finished D-1)

A jam session of improvisation on Contact open for everyone. A brief navigation is given at the beginning of the session.

［Date］ 4/6(Sun) 16:30-18:00
［Place］ Shiga Kaikan
［Price］ ￥1,000 (￥500 for participants of D-1)
［Capacity］ 25

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D-3　INAKI AZPILLAGA ( Belgium )

Moving rather than formal technique will define the atmosphere of the workshop. He will introduce terms such as intentions, projection, change of dynamics, which will become the language of the work. Boundaries between fragile & powerful, Communication between partners, Relationship with music, time & space, Expressions of movement & act, Imaginary & emotion. All this themes will be treated reminding the high voltage energy used at Ultima Vez dance company. A key feature Please bring your sneakers.

[Date]　4/26(Sat)-5/6 (Tue) 16:00-18:00　*5/1(Thu) off　*5/6(Tue) Showing 18:00- 　9 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Atrium (*4/27 Studio 7)
[Price]　￥22,000/all　￥3,000/1class
[Capacity]　25

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E. Company Class

These workshops will give participants the opportunity to work with famous Dance Companies from Kansai. The Company will be demonstrating their lessons and their creation processes. This workshop will be a gorgeous event with participation of all dancers and choreographers. Enjoy the fascination of dance companies.

j.a.m.Dance Theatre ( Osaka )

(Choreographer: Mayuko Aihara, Dancers:Jun Morii, Harumi Kumada, Yoko Imada)
This workshop starts with a company lesson which pays attention to each individual part of the body using Release and other techniques as a tool. You will experience several scenes of j.a.m.’s works, raise your consciousness about yourself as a medium of presentation, and pursue potentials of your own body. Come with us!

[Date]　 4/27(Sun) -5/1(Thu)　 13:30-15:30 　5 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Free Space
[Price]　￥12,000/all　￥3,000/1class
[Capacity]　25

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F. Beginner Class　

What is Contemporary Dance? †What are the artists currently working on? †You will find the answers in this workshop called the "Salad Bowl Program", a very popular introductory class for those who interested in dance. Catch a sampling of various styles and ideas in dance taught by various teachers. There is a round table Q&A with teachers after each workshop.

[Lecturer]
4/26(Sat)Daniel Yeung1 (China)
4/27(Sun)Nuno Bizarro (France)
4/28(Mon)Daniel Yeung2
4/29(Tue)Sylvain Prunenec (France)
5/1(Thu)Eric Lamoureux (France)
5/2(Fri)Jung Young-Doo 1 (Korea)
5/3(Sat)Jung Young-Doo 2
5/4(Sun)Inaki Azpillaga 1 (Belgium)
5/5(Mon)Inaki Azpillaga 2

[Date]　4/26(Sat)-5/5 (Mon) 18:30-20:30　*4/30(Wed) off　　9 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Free Space
[Price]　￥20,000/all　￥12,000/5classes　￥3,000/1class
[Capacity]　25

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After Talk

After Beginners Class, there will be a time for discussion with the instructors. This is a good opportunity to ask questions about the creative process, and other topics of interest.

[Date] After Beginner class 20:45-21:30　*4/30(Wed), 5/3(Sat),5/5(Mon) off
[Place] Kyoto Art Center / Free Space
[Navigator] Naoko Kogo (dance+), others

G. Kids & Adult

This is a class for kids and adults. This is a four-day session during which the Uncle Pajamas who all of a sudden showed up in the last year’s Kids’ Class will introduce to the class many of his friends from Japan and abroad. Those who will be introduced are all top-ranking choreographers and dancers. In this session, both kids and adults will come to know their own body and others’ and to express something by using the body. This class will be a place where to experience rich expression of kids, and pleasure and difficulty of communicating between different ages.

[Lecturer]
5/3(Sat) Kosei Sakamoto (Kyoto) -> Uncle Pajamas
5/4(Sun) Osamu Jareo (Osaka)
5/5(Mon) Daniel Yeung (China)
5/6(Tue) Jung Young-Doo (Korea)

[Date]　5/3(Sat)-5/6(Tue) 　13:30-14:20, 14:30-15:20 　8 classes
[Place]　Kyoto Art Center / Free Space
[Price]　Kids　¥3,500/all　¥1,000/1day (2classes)　¥500/1class
Adult ￥10,000/all　¥3,000/1day (2classes)　¥1,800/1class
[定員]　Kids　10　　Adult　10
[対象]　Kids　5-12 years old 　Adult　more than 18 years old

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