Learn Butoh | Episode 34: Body Scanning | Lessons in Dark Dance

The point I feel of my series is to grow awareness of the body, whether that be inadvertently from making something dance you (as is a big butoh motif with puppet) or actually spending the time to look at what is actually going on with your own instrument (the body). Different butoh teachers I've had all had their versions of body scanning. I feel Rhizome Lee even used Japanese acupressure (Shiatsu) as another means to body scan. He encouraged his students to basically always explore and massage the body around them, even, it seems, when not dancing. Motimaru dance company from Berlin had their own method (with the same name Body Scanning) which was basically a slow roll down from the top of the spine down and to feel in non-linear time what each section (like a cat scan) feels like. In this episode, I go over a more general body scanning, which is a permission to get to know yourself a little better. Though it may appear simple, I feel it is of endless benefit. http://www.shadowbody.com   / shadowbody