21-22-23 NovemBER 2025
BUTOH DANCE and SENSITIVE DANCE®
WITH KEA TONETTI
LIVE MUSIC BY TIVITAVI
“Let your spirit wear the cosmos, entering the kingdom of an original memory of the body.” (Kazuo Ohno)
Matter, thought, emotions, energy and sound vibrate, and this vibration of pure light and love manifests itself freely in the various forms of the Universe. Dance can be a wonderful vehicle for nourishing the Present moment and Presence, that state which puts us in touch with Being and life. Allow dance to emerge naturally, with your breath, dance by touching the depths of the human soul, live the Beauty of the present moment, letting forms become expressions of the soul. The proposed training combines, in an original and organic way, Sensitive Dance® practices with Eastern practices of various origins, preparatory to Butoh, allowing us to: research the organic movement, listening to the body messages; nourish sensations and our roots in the relationship with the Earth, learning to move from our centre; release tension, explore the subtle movements that arise from the skeleton and support dance; rediscover a breathing verticality, connected to our centre, a place of peace that unites the energy of the earth and the sky; nourish the state in which we are danced, in non-doing and letting the energy flow.
In Butoh Dance, the body, mind, heart and soul dance in union, Consciousness expands, transporting us to another space-time, a “dream time”, where the unconscious, our strengths and weaknesses, spirits, archetypes and mystery dance. To dance Butoh, we start from a state of “emptiness” and return to the “empty body” of the origins, a natural body, free from social and cultural limitations, in a state where we are danced and become one with action. When the body and being are in contact with this vibrant emptiness, which permeates creation, we are free to dance the Beauty and mystery of every manifestation of life, and creation becomes spontaneous, natural, effortless, free. A dance of transformation, which allows us to embody and dance the spirit or energy of the whole: the multiple manifestations of nature, its cycles, the human soul, inner landscapes, images of art, poetry, myths, our ancient and wild nature, personal and universal memories. The birth of a dance is a moment of openness, where you can feel a great force and love being released, experience eroticism, sensuality, the feeling of things, catharsis, expand Consciousness, create a ritual.
- Some proposed elements:
- Release tension, let movements arise from sensations, in the present moment.
- Research the organic movement that respects the body’s structures and nature.
- Relive the evolutionary stages of human beings, from suspended cells to vertical being, from aquatic to terrestrial life.
- Awaken the body to vital movement and its energy.
- Nourish the listening, through conscious touch.
- Experience contact and sensitive dialogue between bodies.
- Nourish Presence and Being.
- Explore the subtle movements that arise from the skeleton and energy and that support dance.
- Rediscover the breath of the joints, spine and alignment.
- Nourish your roots and grounding, allowing dance to arise from your centre.
- Open your breath and the perception of space and time.
- Orientate and move your body in empty space.
- Walk and stand, exploring different qualities of the body, space, time, being.
- Dance the spirits or energies of Nature, inner landscapes, images of art, mythology and in relation to objects or materials.
- Mutate in the time of metamorphosis, the “slow movement”.
The workshop will be accompanied by live music from Tivitavi (Tibetan bells, gongs, didgeridoos, percussion, stones, natural sounds, electronic sounds, flutes and vocals).
Open to everyone
This training and experience are useful both for the performing arts and for personal growth and Awareness. It is suitable for anyone who wishes to undertake a journey of awareness through the body: dancers, performers, actors, artists, therapists, educators, psychologists, people on a path of personal research, no dance training is necessary.
EARLY BIRD PRICE UNTILL OCTOBER 31st
PLACE:
Spazio Continuum, V. Stendhal 43 Milano
TIMETABLE:
Friday from 7,30 pm to 10,30 pm
Saturday and Sunday from 11,00 am to 7,30 pm, with a lunch break.
More info. and registration:
keama8@gmail.com
info@spaziocontinuum.it
+39 3356680398
+39 3337814470