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Diego
offers an open and integrated view into the realsm of Butoh Mexicano
Ritual Dance. In his unique style of teaching, Diego incorporates over 25 years of experience and practice in the
fields of Mexican energetic traditions, Japanese Butoh, ritual dance, contemporary modern dance and theatre.
Diego has
developed techniques that stimulate, open and recapture energy from the
body and senses. He guides in how to use perception, imagination and creativity to develop personal
dances from individual experiences.
Butoh
Mexicano Ritual Dance, is physically challenging and intense. Diego
uses the body to awaken sensitivity and vital energy to transform the limitation we normally percieve in ourselves.
This transformation then propels us to new places in our bodies'
capacity to dance.
The workshop techniques and exercises provide focus, center and
balance with clear directions and intentions with which to move the body.
A
Butoh Mexicano Ritual Dance Workshop Will Include:
-Stimulating
body work that incorporates intense warm ups that circulate energy also
using breath and sound.
-Explorations
of the environment outside through communal and internal connections.
-An
emphasis on personal explorations using the energies of the group and
the space that allow for personal impulses to "speak" with the unconscious to expose human and natural qualities
through dance.
-Explorations
of physical conditions to expand and suspend energy through the breath.
-Stretches
using the use the center core for balance.
-Excersises
that stimulate and open energetic centers, that provoke and allow the
expression of different impulses.
-A
training of the senses, perceptions, imagination, and consciousness
that open the internal spaces, sensations, feelings, and extreme energetic levels.
-An
exchange with a communtiy.
-Support
of a personal and ritual dance.
-Creating
and energetic exchange the with an audience.
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Requirements
for Intensive Workshops
1. A
previous connection with Diego's work or prior study in Butoh.
2. A high
energy level, to be able to support strong physical exploration and
touch personal limits.
3. A
clear focus and intention to create a personal movement through the
Butoh principle.
TO
REGISTER:
Please
send an initial email inquiry to butohmexicano@gmail.com specifying
which workshop and include a brief description of your interest & prior training. A $100 deposit (applied to
workshop fee) reserves your place. Please include your name, address,
phone, & email. NO
REGISTRATION will be held without the $100 deposit. If full payment is
not received by deadline, then your space will be forfeited.
Diego is
currently setting his calendar for the upcoming year. If you are
interested in hosting a Butoh Ritual Mexicano workshop and/or performance during 2008, please write to butohmexicano@gmail.com
with
proposed date(s) and location(s).
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