Bodies on the Shoreline: Breath, Step, Presence (2016)

A four-day workshop engaging performers of all backgrounds and experiences, in collaboration with Marie-Gabrielle Rotie.

Two practitioners, both highly experienced in their respective specialisms of Butoh and post-Grotowskian actor training, bring their worlds together to explore the fundamentals of training for the performer while exploring themes of migration and loss. Our research focuses on the act of walking. By honing in on the intricacy and details of walking, a world of possibilities opens up. Drawing up the writings of both Grotowski and Butoh founders Ohno and Hijikata, we delve, through practice, into the meetings and divergencies between these territories of training.

The image above materialises our attempts to extract moments of decision-making from continuous experiences using technology, as part of our thinking around migration, orientation, and disorientation through site-specific performance encounters.