What is Butoh? | Gadu Doushin

[@lucifherbivore100]

"Butoh resonates with the weakness of the body" wait, so I, a disabled person, can learn how to dance??? That's an amazing concept and it's giving me hope!

[@RobynBellospirito]

Yes! I'm a butoh dancer with some physical issues, and anyone can do butoh. It is a dance of the spirit, no steps, only flowing as your spirit wants to, even stillness, as the body allows. One of the founders of Butoh - Kazuo Ohno, at the end of his life when he was ill, danced with his eyes. Yes, you can dance butoh... go as you can, honoring the unique way your body can allow your soul to dance. ♡

[@lucifherbivore100]

@@RobynBellospirito thank you for this amazing response, thank you thank you!!!

[@Loti-gr7bc]

@@RobynBellospirito Your response is beautiful. In my first three decades, I studied contemporary dance and now in my late 50s with some body/movement decline, I love that I can express through this medium. Thank You!

[@phterimckinley7636]

If you wiggle to your groove your dancing.chair dancing. Standing dancing . Just wiggle bounce shake your head just wiggle it ! Enjoy your music and dance in your head. I love music enjoy

[@jenniferhawkins1601]

Long hauler studying theatre and performance here! I've taken a year off to try to recover and this is given me a new tool to access movement during my recovery 🥰

[@melparadise7378]

I had no idea that Butoh was born of surrealism, it makes so much more sense now. I think this form of dance is awesome.

[@arthur04ification]

I want to understand but It sounds so subjective to me. Can u tell me your experience watching It?

[@pkmcburroughs]

Wow. I'm 55, but this is the first time I stumbled upon anything like this. This is a style of dance I can really appreciate. I've been doing some "movement" on my own, in private (in hiding, really), for years and--come to find out--it's somewhat similar to this. This is pretty exciting. Thanks for posting. I actually feel a little less crazy and alone now--if that makes sense. I see there are a number of other videos out there for me to check out.

[@dntskdnttll]

Take a class!

[@Ocxlocxl]

have you explored this more since your comments here?

[@wizewizard1840]

Check out Sankai Juku.

[@voicemiracle]

"I actually feel a little less crazy and alone now... " so nice. #metoo

[@melparadise7378]

I think it's a natural thing for us to want to move our bodies in a way that releases tense energy throughout our body. This subconscious type of dance movement is also used in some models of dance therapy, or 'sensitive dance' wherein you embody the feeling and are really giving whatever it is you're trying to work out the attention that it needs.

[@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134]

When I watch butoh dancers, I inevitably get a sense of something sprouting to life.

[@celiofirmo]

すごいすごい！！！One of the BEST videos on the subject I've seen without the stereotypes that are usually spread in the west! おめでとう! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@khaosssssss1727]

What an incredible way to explain inner pain, mental, emotional, physical or psychic! I feel HEARD. As if Greek theatre focused on movement!!!

[@TheGrifhinx]

I like how this reminds me of western concepts like modern, postmodern, and contemporary, but I can clearly see how this is a style of its own, and the fact of it being rooted in surrealism seems key to its distinction. There is something that seems much more direct about butoh in that sometimes that is just exactly what the subconscious really is - perceptible but not required to be comprehensible; it's really mesmerizing when observed as it is and as it plays/dances out in front of you

[@emory5533]

I disagree with the people in the comments saying butoh isn't a dance... Dancing is self expression through bodily movement. And this kind of dance is supposed to make you uncomfortable to watch, because good art makes you feel something (in my opinion). It's like a surrealist painting.

[@world_mover_sangha]

I’d expound further. It is a communicative dance by which the dancer resolves inner conflicts and at the same time it can be offered to a sensitive audience as a tool for their inner development as well.

[@abaranihei2608]

i mean i know where you coming from but your comparison is lacking. Its the same as saying running is the same as walking becasue the technicality of both is almost the same. just to be clear i like it because i learned in life myself that only embracing happines only leads to suffering.

[@TheUnknownDozo]

This is amazing, I'm a physiotherapist interested in movement as an expression, so I think this is so brave and interesting. Thanks for the video! Cheers from Chile.

[@wizewizard1840]

brave? why?

[@mazinshawish]

Thank you, that was lovely..I needed some background to this artform that Ive suddenly fallen in love with.

[@RobynBellospirito]

This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing your butoh with the world! It's a very important dance that many westerners do not understand. It is deep and meaningful. I do butoh too, and get into that place where time passes so quickly, or doesn't exist. When I found butoh years ago, I knew that butoh is my dance. Thank you for inspiring me to get back to it! Blessings!

[@MelliaBoomBot]

I like this. Decades ago I went to a dance class of sorts and we had to pretend to be the four elements, earth, fire, water and air. I'll never forget that..I loved it. Ive never done any thing like that since. I could never do dance classes because I;ve always had some odd OCD that prevented me from going round in circles. Bit sad really.

[@stephanieunterharnscheidt]

If you are lucky, sometimes you can see into a whole new world, in just 7 minutes. Butoh! ❤

[@amyj.4992]

Dance is divine meditation and the medicinal trance

[@helenj.cadogans.8378]

Beautiful way of explaining, thank you!

[@karenswaine1077]

i used to do this kind abstract movement when i was in my 20s... no music, no dancing, just moving.. and iirc it was mostly my hands. it felt like meditation, it just felt good.

[@Amaunetbellydancee]

super interesting. ive never heard about butoh before and now im super interested on this!

[@dimitrimoliavko-visotzky381]

Beautiful!

[@dagmarmedabrejlova8825]

woow ❤❤❤ this something i felt i could possibly do before even knowing it existed

[@viatorcr]

AWESOME! I want to learn , I will keep an eye on your account. Thanks a lot

[@justynaer5008]

Thank you. It is simply beautiful :)

[@anitchlikadze3451]

Beautiful❤️

[@markvincentordiz]

i still prefer the scary butoh music than this peaceful

[@bk2524]

I just heard about Butoh because of Joe Bob Briggs mentioning it in his Last Drive In broadcast. What a cool art form. Isn't it interesting that the "formal" dance that most of us are taught is beautiful also produces a high degree of pain? To be good at most formal dance, you have to go against what is natural for your body. It is cool to see that there is a form that each individual finds 'natural' to them.

[@trvyycrtr2206]

i love this so much, thank you.

[@wearebelov3d584]

Beautiful on many levels

[@drjekyll40]

I love Butoh.

[@shamaniclighthealingsound11]

❤❤

[@gregdahlen4375]

thus far i've tried more to make beautiful movements because they felt good sensually. possibly i'll try this not sure

[@anitchlikadze3451]

Aaah❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@annibalecovinigerolamo]

bravo Gadu!!!

[@chesterfieldking]

This is incredible

[@Emile.gorgonZola]

a gust of nymphia wind

[@anitchlikadze3451]

Sound❤️❤️❤️

[@japanontology]

Butoh dislocates the mind and relocates the body...it is an essential art form that needs to be disseminated across the world! Thank you ...from Japanontology

[@anitchlikadze3451]

Thank you💖

[@anitchlikadze3451]

Movements❤️

[@romijurat6388]

You guys are out of your mind

[@amywas1]

you actually get it!

[@Kumurajiva]

Is Butoh choreographed?

[@123kidsart]

04:56

[@hannahwhite5567]

Is Butoh what she dances in Memoirs of a Geisha ?

[@tatavarthitarun2739]

Seeing this video after MIME Madhu interview

[@chesterfieldking]

How can I study with you

[@samwilson7889]

DT

[@teneldricisrael8777]

😂 I'm sorry but this is not dancing 😂 Nothing but Japanese ballet with a dark twist. But this is why every culture loves Hip-Hop ✌🏾

[@thetroytroycan]

You should listen a great deal to what the great Thomas Sowell has to say about hip hop. It's an eye opener

[@teneldricisrael8777]

@@thetroytroycan Hip Hop is dead

[@asoupofprunes3895]

@@thetroytroycan I don’t agree with what she said about this not being dance, but immediately plugging such an obviously self-loathing, narrow-minded individual in the hopes of proving a point greatly diminished your credibility. I desperately hope that you are able to find it in yourself to be more empathetic to and appreciative of people and things outside of whatever bubble you currently inhabit.

[@thetroytroycan]

@@asoupofprunes3895 so saith the shepard.

[@shirleyhare6177]

Well, I don’t know what to make of that,looks a rad uncomfortable, not enjoyable, he is very talented, no doubt, but, not a dance,m

[@swanlake4483]

I am in full agreement. I think it is demonic in nature.

[@evelynfrost626]

It's like a bad dream and I personally don't want to watch it

[@orsolyamarko8270]

So don't watch it!

[@Jussijj]

It is bad dream. It is not for enjoyment.

[@RobynBellospirito]

Evelyn, yes, I understand! Butoh can stir us deeply. It is not entertainment like most western dances which are meant to be pleasing to the viewer. It is a deeply spiritual dance that must be witnessed without judgment, then felt. ♡

[@nicollerochelleofficial]

you simply haven't found the poetry in it yet....go deeper 🙏

[@harrytabak4380]

Would love to do a project with you @Harry_C_Tabak