JINEN Butoh

Nature always offers us a profound teaching about the cycles of life, showing us that everything renews itself, and that after every ending there is always a new beginning. Passing through darkness precedes the return to the light. Through dance as our primary form of expression, we honor the nature of which we are a part. Dance reveals the magic of life, an uninterrupted flow of energy to which we belong. By letting it flow, it will surprise us at every moment.

As all living beings and all things, we are connected to the earth and to the sky and in this way we are intertwined with everything. Feeling part of “the whole” and awakening our inner movement in a free and authentic way, seeking the truth of the instant, embrace the enchantment, the magic, harmonizing our breath with the breath of nature.

When we recognize ourselves as part of this whole, we awaken our wild nature, our inner movement in a free and authentic way, seeking the truth of the instant, embrace the enchantment, the magic, the mystery harmonizing our breath with the breath of nature.

By delving into the potentialities of the body and opening ourselves to the nuances of our inner state, we step into a realm where emotions are born, transformations occur, and the movement transforms into dance. Imagination, with its creative power, becomes a potent ally in our explorations. Finding a dance in continuous dialogue between inside and outside, the body and the surrounding space, the inner landscape and the outside nature. Through the dance, our truth quietly, yet powerfully, comes to life.

Butoh is a dance of transformation, an intimate and profound journey in search of one’s original and authentic self, but also a slow dissolving of identity, until we feel part of the whole, and simply becoming a flow of energy that moves and transforms, a living substance in constant motion. It is a dance that arises from a burning inner desire to delve into the depth, seeking the truth of the inner and ancestral body, to connect with sacred.

JINEN is an ancient Japanese word whose meaning encompasses EVERYTHING. Is a vital force dancing with the whole. Every form of life dances the dance of life and death simply by being alive. Jinen Butoh is participating, with all living beings, in this dance of the Universe.

Maruska Ronchi will guide us on this extraordinary journey, leading us through the practices of JINEN Butoh, combined with practices inspired by Body Weather, Noguchi Taiso, yoga, qi gong, and meditation, alongside personal creative research.