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Movers from previous workshops shared that this workshop shared poetic and imaginative ways of moving with nature metaphors,  that can be expansive, deep, and fun. They can feel the older practices for dance and meditation being evolved to integrate our contemporary lives of info, public media, and closeness and farness of what happens around the world~~~ for example, in being curious about our relationships to phones and dancing what is realistic, unrealistic, hyperexaggerated, theatrical, and subtle in our lives when we are alone, online, and together.  Movers also found it compelling to dig and research into their own patterns and cycles, and find the different ingredients that would allow them to compost.  In the workshop, nonverbal ways of communicating can allow for subconscious and emotions and ways of relating to emerge and bodies could feel, explore, and research in the temporary community.

Butoh dance started as a way of processing all the deaths after WWII. As my teacher shares, we dance to dance with the nature that makes us, All. Compost Mix Remix, is a new remix of ancient, natural, and the now with the paradoxes of being with the possibilities of expansion with connections to nature and the depths and layers and new emerging with emotions, beauty, atrocities, personal, world, relational, and imagined new fields. This workshop experience is a love letter for living and moving with the process, mystery, experimenting with old and evolving values between the earthy gutteral, and expansive sky, with our social realities, inner worlds and imagination, ...


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Dancer Min Yoon and Musician Wieland Möller perform and remix with --- butoh dance, sound, psychosomatic therapy, conflict studies (process work) and artistic practice with nature and awareness.

The movement scores will be inspired by long form evolution, repetition, and changes in the body from Min’s dance research, as well as fusing with JINEN butoh nature practices of butoh master, Atsushi Takenouchi that bring together the personal and universal senses of nature.

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With an intentional and strong container for depth, beauty, and multi-sensory awareness, this will be a place for artistic processing, and not necessarily therapy although no doubt art can be therapeutic. We will encourage community support and Min will be open to talk during some of the breaks.

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Words about Min’s Teaching / Holding Space:

“It was one of the most personal and equal challenging butoh trainings that ive experienced, while being in a caring, open environment. I think one goes in hand with another which was a very imaginative creation (by Min) that had lead our diverse movements. We were travelling through movies, natural spaces, internal pressures, unusual characters and more, being connected bodies of intensities and its opposites. It was so much, leaving ideas for further practice.”
- MARTINA, dancer

“A profound journey with and through the (individual & collective) body, psyche and nervous system. My body continues to buzz from the opportunity to embrace exhaustion, rage and uncertainty.“
- ZOYA, dancer

“Mins way of facilitating ring and stirr something in the deeper layers of the soul, the layers where consciousness meets subconcious meets body. Something primal yet complex. Something not moral, not binary. Maybe previous lifes, maybe a collective archetypal subconcious. Maybe just something you've seen in a movie. Your body knows. Their work led us into fleshy, bizarre, violent, playful, angelistic, posthuman embodiment - choreographing a requiem, a musical for a dying world that still is tenderly lovable.
Out of the comfort zone into an individual and collective journey. Lunching into muddy waters. A purge that leaves you alive and transparent. Artfully crafted and served with care.
Mixing philosophy with pop culture with social media with earthy intuition, razorsharp precision, a strong political stance and deep, fierce passion.
That was so good. Go for it, if you have the chance.”
- JUL, dancer

ARTISTS BIO

Min Yoon  | dancetotheedge.com + instagram.com/dancetotheedge

MIN YOON is a post/butoh artist, somatic movement therapist / educator, based in Berlin, performing and sharing internationally. With butoh dance, vocals, and conflict studies, Min makes intimate, surreal, and psychosomatic performances and experiences of heightened relational emotions, permission for depths, and the emergent new. Min dances difficult truths beyond language through plurality of perspectives, unintentional movements within stillness and impulsive improvisation, and archetypes. Their dance collages intense imagery and physicality, stillness, and ritual.

As a teacher, They explore how we can find new ways of moving, both individually and together - with a focus on how one and many bodies move through polarity, tension, and transformation. Min leads philosophical, embodied, imaginative, and emotional scores with the individual and group body, focusing on processing what is dark or difficult with the arts and the body, with butoh, post/butoh, process-oriented psychology ("Process Work"), nature imagery, and somatic therapy methods.

Min has lectured and taught internationally, including at universities, non-profit and for-profit organizations, arts theaters and institutions, and communities—among them the Process Work Center of Hawai'i, the Felt Sense Conference, Zazen, the HeadwatersTheater, and a center for mental rehabilitation in Finland.

As an artist, Min's artworks have been funded by institutions such as the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK (npn) in Germany, the German Dance Association (Dachverband Tanz Deutschland), Musikfonds, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, the City of Oakland, the Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, as well as through artist residencies and grants. Min was also a fellow at the Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U Berlin) and an Artcorps fellow at the Tamalpa Institute, founded by Daria and Anna Halprin. With a grant, Min was invited to the Process Work Institute to connect Butoh dance with global conflicts.

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Min and Wieland met at X...it! international butoh festival 5 years ago and have since collaborated on sound and movement projects that process deep emotions and topics such as the embodied memories of east/west Germany, dancing with violence, military sex violence, and group body research in crises, as well as improvisations with “pure” sound and movement. 


Wieland Möller | wielandmoeller.com

Wieland Möller is an experienced performer based in Berlin with movement and sound for over 20 years in the fields of jazz, improvised music, and contemporary dance. His recent solo performance work brings this research together with the topic of perception and awareness of different spaces. He is fascinated by making sounds visual and motions audible.

He studied at the Rotterdams Conservatory, Rhythmic Conservatory Copenhagen and Berklee College of Music and in New York. He has been a scholar of the Berklee College of Music, Goethe Institution Germany, and GVL. Wieland is the founder of the Akvariet Trio. He has performed at the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, Jazz International Rotterdam Festival and among others, and has toured Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Iceland. His Masters degree at the Musikhochschule Dresden connects sound, movement, and space anew, especially on the physicality of playing an instrument into extended movements and performative qualities.

Being a performing musician and composer, Wieland Möller has been involved in dance and theater projects and performances, among others at the Biennale Berlin 2018, Junge Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gripstheatre, Reykjavik Dance Festival and Prague Dance Festival. He has worked with Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Markus Stockhausen, Klaas Hekman, Tobias Delius, Julyen Hamilton, Ingo Reulecke, Okwui Okpokwasili and other collaborators.

image of pine cone that only flowers, after a fire, by mrg

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