Becoming and Encounters Series
BWW: Butoh Workshop Wales 2025
Arrive Sunday 22nd June (for evening briefing)
Depart Saturday 28th June (am)
Cost 330 pounds
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The workshop takes place around remote locations in Dale and Marloes in Pembrokeshire.
Participants book their own travel, food and accommodation: Various cheap accommodation in Dale is available if booked in advance. See Brochure for details. Trains go to Haverfordwest and we arrange and pay for taxi service for a group from there at pre-arranged times. Car shares are sometimes arranged between participants.
Led by Marie-Gabrielle Rotie and Nick Parkin, this series comprises an ongoing and site-sensitive,research-led, land based workshops based around Dale and Marloes in the National Parks coastline of Pembrokeshire, Wales.
''We explore how to physically open, sensitize and relate to the land, how to create material from a creative engagement and connection with nature and the site-sensitive, and look at the potentials for physical and creative responses given by each natural element.
Wind, rock, stone, earth, sky, sand, trees, become entities, partners, in an unfolding of sensitive engagement, listening, and tuning into the spirit of a place and of things as they are. We aim to de-center our human perspective and learn to see things from the point of view of an non-human perspective. To see with the eyes of fish, water, stone, grass and flower. Such a perspective is an urgent antidote to the erosion and disappearing of our relation to nature.'' (Rotie 2018)
''This workshop allows time to cultivate a fluid interface, and a widening field of perception, connecting our transformational body with the environment. Drawing upon over 30 years experience of Butoh, combined with expertise in voice, bodywork and soft martial arts, we search for the body of becoming.
What does it mean to ‘become something other?” How can we understand the body as not a fixed or separate entity, and instead surrender, listen, melt, breathe and move with the different pulses, energy and memories of plant, stone, sky, sea, rock, seaweed, lichen, limpets, earth?' (Rotie 2018)
for information on previous Wales Workshops in this series please visit -
https://www.rotie.co.uk/embodiedlandscapes
Your teaching approach is extremely supportive, responsive and always positive and your generosity with your knowledge was exceptional. The amount of information, guidance, context and historical underpinning covered was enormous in the short time, all of which was consolidated through practical exercises and experiences. Your humanity and gentle humour communicated really well through the whole week. You were both extremely approachable. The group was very supportive of each other which only enhanced the experience .
(Simon)
Just wanted to say thank you so much for an amazing week of learning. Thank you everyone for being so kind and generous, I always felt welcome and safe. (Lizzie)
It is a great experience for me to feel the nature and reflect my on my life in city. Also I feel like I have experienced more about the philosophical thoughts behind butoh, nature and human which actually enriches my recent project about nature and theatre! I truly appreciate your teaching and the inspiration from this workshop. (Kit)