BUTOH-WORKSHOP WITH YUKO KASEKI
28. – 30.11.2025
at PROGR Bern
Friday, 28.11.25, 4 — 7 pm
Saturday, 29.11.25, 10 am — 1 pm
Sunday, 30.11.25, 10 am — 1 pm
SOLD OUT! Come and see the solo performance of Yuko on Sunday at 6pm!
This workshop seeks to apply the idea of “crafting” to performative creation. It is aimed at anyone who wishes to explore and challenge their inner world — those with the curiosity, courage, and desire to discover movement and expression through the body in all its performativity.
"Root and Stem"
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.” ― Louise Bourgeois
Life is improvisation, every moment is new. We need water and air, ground and sky, tools and handcrafts, imagination and pragmatism, spontaneity and planning, structure and chaotic freedom. Sometimes we need to use everything we have and simultaneously let go of all we have. Surviving is a serious game, where one will find new ways of life.
Following Yuko Kaseki’s continuous research with various physical training methods such as Noguchi gymnastics, elements of Tai-Chi Dao-yin, Butoh methodology, Dance Improvisation and Live Art, the workshop is aiming to develop original movement through body awareness, sensitivity, and also discover hidden dynamic energy.
Finding the core of our body (Tanden), which is our energy source, listening honestly to the variants of the Inner- and developing this in relation to the Outer-world, will be an ongoing focus point. Direct physical connection with the others and the space will stimulate and enhance physical imagination and help accumulate a vocabulary of movement and practical action.
Participants are encouraged to discover authentic movement through playful improvisation with imagination of elements, essence of quality, gravity, scale, dimension, directionality... Sharing personal experience of survival in the shape of movement becomes the main ingredient of a collective improvisation.
Yuko Kaseki is director, choreographer, Butoh dancer, performance artist, improviser and teacher, based in Berlin. She teaches and performs in solo and ensemble pieces and improvisations through out 30 countries. These works are poetic and vivid images that incorporate the spirit of Butoh, performance and live art. Her performance aims to reflect the outsider’s existence.
www.cokaseki.com/
Soloperformance Yuko Kaseki
Sunday, 30.11.25, 6 pm
BUTOH-WORKSHOP WITH YUKO KASEKI
28. – 30.11.2025
at PROGR Bern
Friday, 28.11.25, 4 — 7 pm
Saturday, 29.11.25, 10 am — 1 pm
Sunday, 30.11.25, 10 am — 1 pm
SOLD OUT! Come and see the solo performance of Yuko on Sunday at 6pm!
This workshop seeks to apply the idea of “crafting” to performative creation. It is aimed at anyone who wishes to explore and challenge their inner world — those with the curiosity, courage, and desire to discover movement and expression through the body in all its performativity.
"Root and Stem"
“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.” ― Louise Bourgeois
Life is improvisation, every moment is new. We need water and air, ground and sky, tools and handcrafts, imagination and pragmatism, spontaneity and planning, structure and chaotic freedom. Sometimes we need to use everything we have and simultaneously let go of all we have. Surviving is a serious game, where one will find new ways of life.
Following Yuko Kaseki’s continuous research with various physical training methods such as Noguchi gymnastics, elements of Tai-Chi Dao-yin, Butoh methodology, Dance Improvisation and Live Art, the workshop is aiming to develop original movement through body awareness, sensitivity, and also discover hidden dynamic energy.
Finding the core of our body (Tanden), which is our energy source, listening honestly to the variants of the Inner- and developing this in relation to the Outer-world, will be an ongoing focus point. Direct physical connection with the others and the space will stimulate and enhance physical imagination and help accumulate a vocabulary of movement and practical action.
Participants are encouraged to discover authentic movement through playful improvisation with imagination of elements, essence of quality, gravity, scale, dimension, directionality... Sharing personal experience of survival in the shape of movement becomes the main ingredient of a collective improvisation.
Yuko Kaseki is director, choreographer, Butoh dancer, performance artist, improviser and teacher, based in Berlin. She teaches and performs in solo and ensemble pieces and improvisations through out 30 countries. These works are poetic and vivid images that incorporate the spirit of Butoh, performance and live art. Her performance aims to reflect the outsider’s existence.
www.cokaseki.com/
Soloperformance Yuko Kaseki
Sunday, 30.11.25, 6 pm
