Into the Wilderness of the Body  A Wilderness Dance Workshop and Retreat in SW Colorado  June 4th 5th and 6th 2010 (meet on Friday afternoon)  $200 before May 10th ($250 after May 10th)  Camping included)  $75 Deposit required to reserve space

Payment due in full by June 1st

 

You are invited to participate in a unique artistic and human exploration.  Syzygy Butoh will be in residency this summer on Log Hill Mesa outside of Ridgway Colorado at the foot of the San Juan Mountains.  As part of this residency we will be hosting a two-day open workshop and retreat.  Please join us in this celebration of dance, humanity and our natural heritage in the Rocky Mountains. 

 

This workshop will focus on the relationship between body and landscape through the medium of dance.  Through guided movement explorations in nature participants will be supported in shedding their domesticated bodies and arriving at an empty or original body.  From here we will allow place, object and element in nature to dance through us.  Each person will have ample time to explore and create movement through their relationship to something larger than themselves. By encompassing and even “becoming” the phenomenal world outside we will at the same time be put in touch with our innermost being.   Out of this dialogue participants will have the chance to create and share a score, dance or creative offering.  We will witness each other followed by celebration at Orvis Hot springs on Sunday evening.

 

In the same way that nature hides the creator and cannot be understood as only an arrangement of form so the physical body hides the spiritual being.  Dance is so much more than a linear string of body movements.  Both art and nature have a mysterious depth and a hidden soul.  It is from this place that all creativity and indeed all life spring forth.