Becoming and Encounters Series

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BWW: Butoh Workshop Wales 2027

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Arrive Saturday 26th June (for evening briefing)

Depart Saturday 3rd July  (am)  

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booking for payment via stripe and cards: email butohuk@googlemail.com 

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for immediate and fast booking link - payment via PayPal 

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full brochure here 

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The workshop takes place around remote locations in Dale and Marloes in Pembrokeshire.

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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

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​​​​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.

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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)

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​Please note this workshop will be discreetly and  professionally filmed for non commercial research purposes and as part of my research submission to Goldsmiths University of London Research Excellence Framework. You can opt out fully or partially of being filmed at any time and our emphasis is on not disrupting the immersive nature of our work. 

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cancellation policy 2027 Wales workshop 

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Pay in one go - Total fee of 330 pounds:

For payments made in full in one transfer, cancellations need to be made by May 1st and full refund can

be given. Cancellations after that date are non-refundable but 50% of the value, minus any paypal fees

incurred, can be used towards another Butoh UK workshop.

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Payment Plans in Instalments by arrangement

We want everyone to be able to take part and are mindful of many artists having erratic income. Please

contact to arrange a payment plan. All payments need to be settled by May 1st. For those paying in

instalments by payment plans then fees are non-refundable. Please email to request an Initial Deposit

invoice link of £100 towards a payment plan (this secures your place).​

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For those paying in instalments or by payment plans then fees are non-refundable.

It is allowable for you to transfer your registration to somebody else, although it is your responsibility to

identify the individual and make any financial arrangements directly with them. If an event is cancelled

for any reason, a full refund shall be provided. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this refund policy.

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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 .

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(Simon)