Butoh Ma, Movement from Silence

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Get ready for a transformative experience in this free dance workshop, designed for dancers and movers of all experience levels. Led by the renowned Artistic Director of Kokoro Dance and Legacy Artist, Jay Hirabayashi, this 4-hour session will explore the concept of Ma in Butoh. A fundamental principle in Butoh that embodies stillness and the space between moments, it alters our perception of time and space, serving as a pathway to the transformative qualities of this exceptional dance form.

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Kokoro Dance Theatre Society

Kokoro Dance Theatre Society. Taking its name from the Japanese word kokoro - meaning heart, soul, and spirit — Kokoro Dance creates deeply evocative and provocative performances. Inspired by the Japanese art form known as butoh, Kokoro Dance fuses Eastern and Western aesthetics. Since 1986, Kokoro Dance has created and performed works for the proscenium theatre, for site-specific environmental locations, for young audiences in schools, and for impromptu improvisations in jazz nightclubs. The company has performed across Canada, in the United States, Europe, and South America.

Kokoro Dance Theatre Society recognizes that its work takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples: the xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, in what is now Vancouver, BC, Canada. The society promotes Canadian culture through teaching, producing, and performing new dance theatre with a focus on multidisciplinary collaboration and cross-cultural exploration.