Classes and Workshops in Butoh (Japanese Contemporary Dance)
update 14/07/2010

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Summer Workshop in Paris 2010 (Butoh, Nihon-Buyô, Shiatsu)

16-28 August 2010 details

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Book release
“Dance Training in the Alishina Method”
in January 2010 in Japan
by the Shinsuisha book house
How to purchase this book?

Page in Japanese

Juju Alishina‚s style proposes a well-balanced and harmonious approach of the Butoh dance movements in all its abundance. Since 1982 Juju Alishina has developed the practice of Butoh. Her work respects the body, maintaining it in excellent physical condition. Juju Alishina‚s method is based on her in-depth research of diverse forms of Asian dance, as well as her own personal and authentic Butoh dance experiences.
This method proposes not only a creative approach to dance movement but also an initiation into Alishina's aesthetics and the phliosophy of Butoh dance expression.
The participants will find in the physical exercises a means of expression and freedom. They will be in a position of active participation and be called to think, imagine, invent, and create.The more regularly classes are attended, the more participants will benefit from the training.

Accessible to all--- Novice, qualified dancers or actors alike--- Butoh can be practiced at any age. Butoh provides endless creative resources in the construction of your own personal axes.
Juju Alishina invites you to discover yourself through the practice of this art form called Butoh.
January 2010, her book "Dance Training in the Alishina Method " was published in Japan .

• Rates without membership: 1 class = 19 €. 4 classes = 70 €
  
  
• Membership fee to the association NUBA: 30 € / 1st year 20 € / from 2nd year
  valid 1 full year (ex: from October 5, 2010 to October 5, 2011)

• Ways of payment : Directly to the professor. check or cash.
  

• Subscription card

1. Once purchased, tickets are not reimbursed.
2. Tickets are nontransferable to others.
3. 1 year pass : Valid to 1 year from purchase.
   

• School holidays: The Saturdays' classes are suspended during School Holidays. Thursdays' classes will be maintained.
  
• Interior Rule : NUBA has the privilege to exclude person having committed physical or moral damages to the Company, its representative or members, in order to keep its activity and its mission in best conditions.
  

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Regular class <Technical instruction > ( All levels )

• Basic training of Butoh
• Walking
• Ondulation (transmission of waves)
• balance between action and release, tension and letting go
• Improvisational dance technique
• Contact
• word play
• Exercices with ball
• Gestures
• Voice training
• Study of facial movement
• Composition
• Choreography
  

• Body control : postural tonus regardless of action
• Breathwork
• Muscular training and exercises
• Stretching
• Limbering up
• Strength and flexibility exercises
• Awakening and circulation of energy (chi)
• Raising consciousness and managing stress
• Relaxation
• Japanese massage (Shiatsu)
  

• Theory
• Character work
• Training of physical memory
• Exploration of the image set in action
• Approach to stage production
• Rhythmic work with musicians
• Make-up techniques, costumes
• End-of-workshop presentation

Magazine SANTE(Health) in August, 2006 France
Zen, the Butoh,
The Butoh has many different qualities. the Butoh is for Antistress and relaxation, the Butoh is a discipline phisique as so intellectual, halfway enter art martiel and contemporary dance.
Born in Japan in the 60s and influenced by European avant-gardes, this " dance of darkness " at first attacked big taboos: violence, eroticism, death. The Japanese choreographers tried to express all the palette of feelings: bodies painted in white, slow movements, distorted and deformed postures which aim to connect conscious and unconscious, outside and the inside.
Today, the classes of Butoh every public propose a serene version, a source of prosperity rather than exorcisme. - A means to investigate all the facets of the being through the body, the feelings and to prop up the internal rhythm in accordance with the cycles of the life.
Trump cards shape
Control of the body, Breathing, master the gesture, learning of the release , codified chains of movements and improvisations, in duet or solo.
It’s a more than a dance, a real therapy! There are many profits on the physical plan: excellent for the back, the Butoh seeks all the deep muscles, develops flexibility and coordination while favoring a perfect oxygenation. Ideal to re-harmonize energies and to feel as well in our body as in the head.
Where you can learn the Butoh?
Company Nuba, directed by the Japanese choreographer Juju Alishina, at the Centre de Danse du Marais and at the Gymnase des Lilas.

Summer Workshop in Paris 2010
Butoh & Traditional Dance
& Shiatsu Massage
for all levels
by Juju Alishina (Choreographer, Butoh dancer, professor of Japanese Dance)
& Toshi Ichikawa (Massagist, Shiatsu Instractor)

5-10 July 2010

Monday - Friday 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Saturday 2:00pm - 7:00pm - total 35 hours

16-28 August 2010
(Butoh: 16-21, Shiatsu & Traditional Dance: 23-28)
Early Booking Discounts : before July 16th - 10% off the rates.

Monday - Friday 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Saturday 2:00pm - 7:00pm - total 70 hours
No work on Sunday

place : Micadanses 15,16, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier 75004 Paris (M° St-Paul)

*This studio is center of Paris, very comvenient and has lots charm of old Paris.

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PROGRAMME
- Butoh basic training, Walking, Improvisational dance technique, Voice training, Composirion, choreography, Theory,
- Awareness - Strength & Flexibility - Mind & Body - Alignment - Dynamic Energy - Co-ordination - Precision - Centering - Gravity - Breathing - Body Intersection - Awakening and circulation of energy (chi)
- Exploration of the image set in action
- Watching videos of many kinds of Japanese Dances(Noh, Kabuki, Nihon-Buyoh, Kyogen, Fork, Butoh) to learn the history of Japanese Dance
- Approach to stage production,
- Lessons of Shiatsu Massage. Toshi Ichikawa (Shiatsu Massagist) teaches the way to massage. All participants make pair and massage each other. --- 4 hours
- Relaxation, Discussion,
*We will construct one choreography together in the end of workshop. but it will be for us. we won't show it the public.
*This is the Butoh workshop, but we will not require any nudity to the participants during the workshop.

any questions, write to :Cie NUBA
Tel : 01 40 27 08 83

photo:Camille Perrière

Butoh Workshops in your school, your city, your country!!

From 3 days to 1 month
3 - 6 hours per day
For 6 to 30 students

For all ages and levels
( directed in French, English, Japanese )

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Regular Butoh Class
directed by Juju Alishina

at the Centre de danse du Marais
41, rue du Temple 75004 Paris (M° Hôtel de ville)
tel: +33 1 42 72 15 42

Thursday 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm(for all levels)

Fee with Membership
1 class / 16 €
1 year pass / 350€

without Membership
1 class / 19 €

Membership Fee for NUBA :for the 1st year: 30 €
for the 2nd year : 20€

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at the Gymnase des Lilas
(Centre sportif des Lilas)
5, rue des Lilas 75019 Paris (M° Place des Fêtes)

Saturday 10:30 am to 12:00 am ( for all levels)

Fee with Membership
1 class / 16 €
1 year pass 350 €

without Membership
1 class / 19 €

1 year pass -valid 1 full year (ex: from October 5, 2010 to October 5, 2011)
Membership Fee for NUBA :for the 1st year: 30 €
from the 2nd year : 20€

photo:Camille Perrière

Traditional Dance Class

Gymnase des Lilas
(Centre sportif des Lilas)
5, rue des Lilas 75019 Paris (M° Place des Fêtes)

rates without membership : 1 class / 19 €
4 classes / 70 €

rates with membership : 1 class / 16 €
1 year pass 350€

*you can use the tickets of Butoh class

renting of a kimono
1 time = 8 €

* We order your kimono (Yukata) to Japan.
Rates (included shipping of Japan- France)
75 € (1 kimono, 1 sash, 2 cords)
105 € (1 kimono, 1 sash, 2 cords, 1 fan)
35 € = 1 fan


* We can rent and sell the kimonos only to the students of this class.

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