SUN DOGS Rehearsals

The dancers who I have been working with in the creation of SUN DOGS (a devised performance to be viewed in Wimbledon on the 30th of April and the 1st of May) are all trained in the art of Butoh. For this reason we are employing a lot of Butoh exercises in our rehearsals and ultimately these will greatly influence the final performance. Within Butoh there is an understanding that movement is initiated by an internal or external source, rather than by a conscious decision to change ones position. For this reason there is a constant interplay between states of control and “uncontrol”. Here is one of the exercises which we have been exploring.