Butoh

Butoh

"Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement."

I think a performance of Butoh Is very powerful a really fascinating way of performing in a non-conventional way. It uses a voice technique called 'ululating' to create a really individual sound to listen to during the performance. even though it is made by the human body it sometimes doesn't sound human, like it could be music. We started to practice ululating which was quite challenging because it requires to make two different types of pitch with your voice. We then started to put movement with sound. We watched a video of a man doing Butoh to see what kind of movement we were hoping to do, the moves were very simple, like a lift of the arm or curvature of the spine  but it looked amazing because the Man was completely immersed in what he was doing and it was all instinctual.
When we put it into practice we had to be completely focused on our bodies and the energy we were using. We had to explore our bodies and feel how different body parts moved. The sound we were making was very reliant on my breath and it was very difficult to concentrate on feeling connected to how my body was moving and my breath at the same time.