Medi_motion: Gio Ju

From : 01/06/2025

To : 01/13/2025

Start time : 10:00 AM

End time : 6:00 PM

Theatre Group : Culture Monks

Faculty : Gio Ju

Venue : Shantiniketan

Kolkata - 731204, West Bengal, India

Workshop details :

Contact Details

Enter your details to connect with the Theatre Group

Name :	*

Email Id :	*

Mobile :	*

City :	*

Please enter the text shown in image

Email Me Contact Details

�Movement in stillness
Stillness in movement�

�Bring something incomprehensible into the world!�

�The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.�

- Gilles Deleuze

About the Workshop
7 days residential movement based workshop at a rural residential space in Shantiniketan, India, led by Gio Ju. We will also have sessions with practitioners of Baul music, which is about the inner self and liberation through music and an artist who practices clay therapy during the residency.

This is an open call for dancers, movement artists, actors, movement based therapist , theatre practitioners, performance researchers and also for people who are interested to explore their expressive and creative self through this practice which involves movement and meditation.

This residency is a part of the Masterpeace COOLeaders program

About the Workshop
Pause and observe inside outside of the body in between stillness and movement. Medi_motion is meditative movement that releases tension and intention from the body and mind. It allows us to see everyday life from a different perspective. In the experience of melting the body and mind into one through various conditioning, we encounter infinite inner landscapes between life and death through dance and discover a unique dance that only my life can dance.

Pause and Experience
There are times in life when we want to stop for a moment and look for different experiences.
The body we all have can be a great frame for another pause and experience.

1st Journey � Pause with Medi_motion
Medi_motion is a meditative movement that releases tension and intention from the body and mind.

Through this movement, we connect with the body, explore it, and eventually go beyond its frame.
Slow down and observe the movements in stillness through breath, sensation, inner memories and encounter the movements arise in the silence.
We keep listening to the body.
We explore how to release the tension on each part of body through organic movements, resonance touch and how to develop inner silence even in the movements and interacting with others.

2nd Journey � Experience with BUTOH:
Butoh is a profound journey that melts the body and mind into one and guides to a pure state of life through dance.

Its an experience of acceptance and expansion on daily human life. It touches darkness like a dark forest. The unknown beyond judgement. Sometimes the struggle to get out of one�s ego and comfort zone is intensive, but the flowers that bloom through difficulty have special beauty.

Butoh, which discovers the aesthetics of dance, blooms as new beauty in the sapce that goes beyond the dualistic judgment of what is darkness and what is not.
Butoh is wonderful company when we are off the life path, memories, when we are curious about hidden self, dream worlds, dancing the pure nature as it is, when we want to expand the creativity in everyday life, dance with infinite freedom without the distraction of thoughts, dance the mystery of life, when we are afraid of weakness, anxiety, death, or disappearance. When we want to celebrate pure life itself together, beyond self and others, to listen to body deep level. Butoh is a medium that safely embraces each other and helps each other face and dance honestly no matter what comes. Butoh is a midwife who creatively brings out our hidden body within.

About GIO JU:
A silence practitioner through awareness of various dimensions between stillness and movement. Korean martial arts, Ashtanga yoga, and Dantien yoga experience and Vipassana meditation practitioner.

Theatre Workshop Fees : Call

Important Note : Mumbai Theatre Guide takes no responsibility for outcome of theatre workshops. Interested participants may attend them at their own discretion.

Are you organizing a workshop?
Or is there any workshop that we have missed out?


	Featured Workshops
3-Month Advanced Level Play-Oriented Certified Acting & Theatre Course Theatre in Education (TIE) National Workshop Medi_motion: Gio Ju Natyakiran Production Oriented Acting Workshop - Weekday Natyakiran Production Oriented Acting Workshop - Weekend Theatre Games for Trainers Batch No 14 Pune