Gabriele Endo

Open Intense Butoh Workshop with Tadashi Endo and co-Trainer Jesser de Souza, Brazil

Technical Training for Performers, led by Jesser de Souza
Directed towards dancers, actors and those interested in the practical study of the body and the creation of the phenomenon of presence on stage.

The workshop offers a general panorama of the daily training developed by LUME’s performers for almost forty years:

Recognizing and dilating the expressive capacities of the body. Using concrete methodologies, the workshop covers basic principles of the performer’s craft such as: ethics (self-discipline and autonomy); preparation and readiness (warm-up of body-mind and presence); energetic aspects and techniques of the craft (the transformation of weight into energy, the dynamics of physical actions in time and space, the relationship with the ground, the relationship with the air, the use of the articulations and segmentation of the body, modulation of energy and the play between performers).