- Butoh Lessons -

• The studio opens 15 minutes before the lesson.
• Various Butoh dance exercises for anybody in a relaxed atomosphere on the tatami-mat flooring.
• No Butoh or dance experiences are required.
  You can learn Butoh movements and dancing
  such as old days' Hijikata butoh, Sankaijuku dances, etc.
  together with the exercises of Noguchi Taiso, a body-mind approach.
• Itto gives English explanations throughout the lesson.

• The fee : 3000yen.
• Please reserve 1 day before the lesson day.

EIWA Building 3F, Niju-yonken 3-4-6-7,
Nishi-ku, Sapporo, Japan
Ask for detailed information:

　ONE DAY BUTOH Lesson for YOU !

• D A T E: Let us know your desirable schedule.
  The total lesson time is 6 hours (usually from 2pm to 8pm)


• CONTENTS：Please write us on what you want to try in this special Butoh dance occasion.
  When necessary, we can have a workshop for a few days, and the longest workshop lasted six days.
  　The basic contents will be body-mind lessons, butoh dancing , butoh video learning, your dance presentation, and so on.
  We explain in English throughout the lesson. Lessons proceed moderately according to your pace.
  
  * We started Private Workshops in 2025, and accepted a variety of people such as Dancers of other styles, Artists and Art related professionals, Body-mind practitioners, Researchers of Noguchi Taiso, Nishida's Contradictions, and Ikigai and other Japanese concepts.
  * GooSayTen Butoh exercises include physical and/or mental contradictions such as "body - mind", "beauty - ugliness", "tension - relaxation", "gross - subtle" and/or "fast - painfully slow" movements, and so on.
  
  Some pieces of information on Ikigai and contradictions
  
  
• Fees: 20000 JPYEN (per day)
  This one day lesson is a program for a NOVICE who wants to experience and learn what the Dark and Black Ankoku Butoh in Japan is, together with its cultural factors.
  


• VENUE Mika Takeuchi BUTOH studio [MAP] , Sapporo.
  　A cozy studio with tatami mat flooring, no shoes necessary.

Please check our Intensive Butoh Workshops to get the general information about the lesson contents, Sapporo, subway lines, JR stations, hotels, and etc.

The beauty of avant-garde Butoh lies in its embrace of imperfection - where a disheveled kimono, distorted posture, and erratic motion evoke raw emotion and profound depth.
One moment before Mika enters into that world...

Grounding through stillness on tatami is a core principle in Noguchi Taiso. Butoh, by contrast, thrives on the tension of imbalance - where distorted posture becomes a poetic contradiction to physical rootedness.
And then turmoil begins...