ON-DEMAND BUTOH CLASSES AVAILABLE WITH VANGELINE

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Learn Butoh dance at your own pace; choose from a selection of on-demand classes with Vangeline, or longer butoh workshops, on your own time. Beginners are welcome. All classes are trauma-informed.

Butoh Dance Classes with Vangeline on Vimeo

Single classes are 2 hours and $15 each. Led by award-winning butoh dancer and teacher Vangeline. Choose from a wide selection of classes. Availability: Worldwide.

Butoh workshops with Vangeline on-demand

Butoh and the Breath workshop with Vangeline

This butoh workshop with Vangeline focuses on breathing techniques in butoh, with an emphasis on the parasympathetic nervous system. This is a very relaxing workshop, perfect for destressing and learning new ways to gently move with butoh. This work is easily accessible and this workshop is open to beginners, and trauma informed.

Duration: 9 hours 34 minutes

Availability: Worldwide

$20/session or $80/workshop

Single sessions available

Butoh workshop with Vangeline:

Vision-Visualisation/

Choreography-Improvisation

Duration: 4 sessions, a total of 8 hours 58 minutes

Availability: Worldwide

In this butoh workshop, we explore techniques of VISION–VISUALIZATION–CHOREOGRAPHY–IMPROVISATION in butoh. Each class begins with a warm-up, followed by practice, and ends with a short relaxation/meditation.

These classes are open to beginners and these techniques are very easily accessible.

Classes are $20 to $25 each or $80 as a package.
Filmed June 24-27, 2021.

Butoh Modules 1, 2, 3, 4 with Vangeline

4 sessions

Duration: 10 hours 17 minutes

Availability: Worldwide

A series of four teaching modules with Vangeline based on her critically acclaimed book Butoh: Cradling Empty Space. This series mixes theory, practice, and improvisation for a balanced experience for the butoh practitioner. Breakdown: lecture, warm-up, practical exercises, guided improvisation, and relaxation. This is perfect for those who are interested in theory, pedagogy and practice.

Single session rentals are available for $20 each or as a 4-day package for $70.

These butoh dance classes are open to beginners and these techniques are very easily accessible.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/butohmodules

Butoh workshop with Vangeline:

The hanging body

Muscle tension in butoh, gravity, and tension/relaxation in butoh

Duration: 5 hours, 2 sessions

Availability: Worldwide


This Butoh workshop explores the “hanging body” in Butoh, muscle tension and relaxation, our relationship to gravity in Butoh. We start with exercises focusing on the arms and move to explore techniques of "hanging", tensing, and relaxing our muscles in butoh to dance creatively.
Open to beginners– these techniques are very easily accessible.