{"id":3923,"date":"2025-05-26T20:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/observatoriodelplacer.com\/?page_id=3923"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:41:08","slug":"vibrant-bodies-butoh-and-posthuman-seuality-workshop-by-oryx","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/observatoriodelplacer.com\/en\/vibrant-bodies-butoh-and-posthuman-seuality-workshop-by-oryx\/","title":{"rendered":"Vibrant Bodies: Butoh and posthuman se()uality Workshop by Oryx"},"content":{"rendered":"
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>> Friday June 13 _ 17-21h
>> Saturday June 14 _ 11-15h<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Vibrant Bodies: Butoh and Posthuman Se()uality<\/strong>

<\/strong>Facilitated by Oryx
<\/em>Oryx is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary performance artist, movement practitioner, researcher, archivist, and writer. Their artistic work spans contemporary dance, Butoh, immersive theatre, durational performance, and installation art. Drawing on studies in Literature, Art History, and various dance and movement practices, Oryx investigates the embodiment of cultural histories, queer theory, gender and class politics, and psycho-somatics. Their work is often situated in the philosophical and political, using speculative world-building and conceptual writing to reimagine the body and its affective capacities.
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Workshop Overview:<\/strong>
Vibrant Bodies\u00a0is a two-day intensive workshop exploring the intersection of Butoh and posthuman sensuality through improvisational movement, embodied research, and guided somatic inquiry.
Butoh, a radical movement practice that emerged in postwar Japan, interrogates the body beyond normative aesthetics\u2014embracing slowness, transformation, and the grotesque. In this workshop, Butoh becomes a gateway into posthuman ways of sensing, moving, and becoming. We will explore what it means to inhabit bodies that are speculative, extra-human, or non-anthropocentric\u2014blurring the boundaries between human, animal, object, and atmosphere.
Posthuman sensuality in this context is not rooted in technologized futures but in radically expanding our capacity for feeling, perceiving, and existing outside of linear time, fixed identity, or human-centered subjectivity. Through movement meditations, visualizations, writing, and experimental improvisations, participants are invited to touch upon other possible anatomies, temporalities, and modes of intimacy.
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What We\u2019ll Explore:<\/strong>
\u00b7\u00a0Butoh as a practice of undoing:\u00a0slowing down, becoming other, dissolving narrative selfhood.
\u00b7\u00a0Embodied posthumanism:\u00a0inhabiting speculative, hybrid, or non-human bodies through somatic imagination.
\u00b7\u00a0Queer time and nonlinear space:\u00a0exploring altered temporalities and rhythms through movement.
\u00b7\u00a0Sensuality beyond the human:\u00a0cultivating intimacy with landscapes, objects, textures, atmospheres, as well as possibly other participants. \u00a0
\u00b7\u00a0Improvisation as research:\u00a0using movement and intuitive inquiry as tools for accessing new forms of embodiment.
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Who Is This For?<\/strong>
This workshop welcomes artists, movers, writers, theorists, and curious bodies of all backgrounds. No previous experience with Butoh or dance is required\u2014only a willingness to explore somatic and imaginative processes in an open, experimental environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical Details:<\/strong>
\u00b7 Duration: 2 days
\u00b7 Location: Observatorio del Placer, Barcelona, Spain
\u00b7 Dates: 13.-14.06
\u00b7 Time: 4h per day; Friday 11:00-15:00 Saturday 11:00-15:00h
\u00b7 Price: Sliding scale 100 \u2013 160 euros<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 What to Bring: Comfortable clothing for movement, a notebook, and water.
\u00b7 Language: The workshop will be held in English, but Oryx is also happy to translate into German or Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration:<\/strong>
Spaces are limited. To register or inquire here<\/strong><\/a>
Early registration is recommended.
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*** We do not want anyone to be left out of the activities due to economic issues, if this is your case, let us know.
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