METROPOLIS butoh / post butoh lab
a butoh + post/butoh dance + somatics workshop with Min Yoon | BERLIN
SCHEDULE:
29-30 November 2025, 11-19h
At PARK STUDIO | Am Treptower Park 42, 12435 Berlin
+++ 200-130€ sliding scale / 14 hours of dancing-being ~
~ There will be two supported spots for folx who would need it.
~~~ email dancetotheedge@gmail.com to join ~
Begin from Zero. Every Body open to movement, are welcome.
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This METROPOLIS is a butohesque city of shadows and silence. A landscape where the body becomes myth, where stillness moves, where dance emerges from the unknown, and the unknown emerges from the known cityscapes. METROPOLIS is a lab of awareness, perspectives, and finding/losing the self in the scenes.
Dance inside... cityscapes, naturescapes, and dreamscapes - as portals into our collective dreaming.
Dance inside… films, literature, philosophy, and our modern lives’ questions.
Dream with the body into the overwhelming questions of this being human...
In cinematic flow, we become sculptures, creatures, and landscapes - evolving and watching from inside.
With butoh dance, post/butoh dance, and somatic movement, we will explore:
- statework - releasing, opening, energizing
- butoh + post/butoh dance - poetic evolutions and remixes
- soma / multi-channel awareness - seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, proprioceptizing, relating, imagining, dreaming, spacing out/ deep in, being with
- character/archetype embodiment
- dancing the individual + relation + groupbody
- surreal social processes through the body/dance
- avant-garde improvisation
Artistic inspirations for this workshop: Metropolis (the film), Martin Heidegger, Byung-Chul Han, Jean-Luc Godard, Joker, Jackson Pollock, Franz Fanon, Yukio Waguri-Sensei + more
Min honors the butoh dance lineage with years of professional training and artworks, and looks for the states and movements that come post/butoh dance. Post/butoh dance was inspired by the times of dancing/living with their teacher, Mizu Desierto who brings together ecology, butoh dance, the feral, the queer, and the here and now.
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*** note
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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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Min Yoon tr. Citizen Truth | dancetotheedge.com + insta @dancetotheedge
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.
Min has been mixing butoh dance, conflict studies, and somatic therapy to bring workshops to communities in Berlin, Vienna, Basel, Ii, SF, Portland, LA, and more cities as well as off the map places. Min teaches workshops as well as creates experimental community performances in artistic institutions and community spaces.
Recent works switch between listening to their own body and the bodies of others. Their current solo work dancing-being-in-time depicts loops of movements, vocal tremors, and memories, with the body as an archive of pain, states, and transformation. In dancing with violence, they researched the bodily memories of violence of another dancer to create an auditory theater piece that invites the listeners to move and lightly embody the experiences poetically. In solo dance works, they connect conflicts within the body to archetypes and collective experiences, such as the Joker archetype and feelings of remorse at the edge of revenge, and comfort women (forced prostitutes of the Japanese army) as an older archetype engaging with the #metoo movement. In their choreographic experiments, they question how bodies respond and move together in groups, how we may find instinctual ways to move together beyond how our bodies were trained.
In Germany, Min danced at Dock11, 90mil, Uferstudios, Hošek Contemporary Gallery, Oyoun, ZK/U, Petersburg Arts Space, Trauma Bar und Kino (in residency), Kühlspot Social Club, p7 Gallery, Haus der Statistik, and 4fürtanz (leipzig). In the U.S. Min danced at CounterPulse (sf), Headwaters Theater (pdx), ProArts Gallery (sf), Highways Performance Space (la), Epic Immersive (sf). Min also dances in the streets and many underground community spaces as well as in churches and a temple devoted to Minerva in Italy.
Min’s performances and social art works have been funded by NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (npn) in Germany, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, The City of Oakland, The Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, with other artist residencies and grants. Min has also been a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U Berlin) and an artcorps scholar at the Tamalpa Institute founded by Daria and Anna Halprin.
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with big love to Min's inspirations and lineages~
JINEN Butoh by Atsushi Takenouchi
http://www.jinen-butoh.com/
Process-oriented psychology & conflict studies:
https://www.processwork.edu/what-is-processwork/
Life/Art Process by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin:
https://www.tamalpa.org/about-us/our-process
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WORDS ABOUT MIN’S HOLDING SPACE:
“I was surprised, touched, and carried through this experience, within the gentle, fluid container that Min created for us. I found new parts of myself and reconnected with old ones, stripping away the facade of who I wanted others to see and revealing the parts of me that have always tried to hide. I will forever remember this experience, which has opened doors for me as to what movement can look like and be.” - Jen
“Min facilitated sessions which included written reflections, storytelling, expressive movement, movement based in imagery and imagination, interview-type conversations, and drawing. The range of activities meant that an idea seeded in one area could move to another, and another, and eventually become something very different in form, yet connected in concept, to the initial inspiration. This experience, guided and supported by Min, invited (but never forced) me into the depths of memory and psyche, alternative movement pathways, and new perspectives. I experienced emotional opening and relief as a result of working with Min and a shift in how I related to old stories about my life and my body. The research felt important to my healing process and also empowered me to show up differently– more aware, present, and understanding– in my relationships. While no two sessions were alike, I always felt held in the patient and loving container that Min created.” - Nicola
+from recent workshop, photos by Nanda D’Agostino Min Yoon tr. Citizen Truth | dancetotheedge.com + insta @dancetotheedge
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.
Min has been mixing butoh dance, conflict studies, and somatic therapy to bring workshops to communities in Berlin, Vienna, Basel, Ii, SF, Portland, LA, and more cities as well as off the map places. Min teaches workshops as well as creates experimental community performances in artistic institutions and community spaces.
Recent works switch between listening to their own body and the bodies of others. Their current solo work dancing-being-in-time depicts loops of movements, vocal tremors, and memories, with the body as an archive of pain, states, and transformation. In dancing with violence, they researched the bodily memories of violence of another dancer to create an auditory theater piece that invites the listeners to move and lightly embody the experiences poetically. In solo dance works, they connect conflicts within the body to archetypes and collective experiences, such as the Joker archetype and feelings of remorse at the edge of revenge, and comfort women (forced prostitutes of the Japanese army) as an older archetype engaging with the #metoo movement. In their choreographic experiments, they question how bodies respond and move together in groups, how we may find instinctual ways to move together beyond how our bodies were trained.
In Germany, Min danced at Dock11, 90mil, Uferstudios, Hošek Contemporary Gallery, Oyoun, ZK/U, Petersburg Arts Space, Trauma Bar und Kino (in residency), Kühlspot Social Club, p7 Gallery, Haus der Statistik, and 4fürtanz (leipzig). In the U.S. Min danced at CounterPulse (sf), Headwaters Theater (pdx), ProArts Gallery (sf), Highways Performance Space (la), Epic Immersive (sf). Min also dances in the streets and many underground community spaces as well as in churches and a temple devoted to Minerva in Italy.
Min’s performances and social art works have been funded by NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (npn) in Germany, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Kultuuri Kaupilla in Finland, The City of Oakland, The Battery Club of San Francisco, and the Awesome Foundation, with other artist residencies and grants. Min has also been a fellow at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U Berlin) and an artcorps scholar at the Tamalpa Institute founded by Daria and Anna Halprin.
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with big love to Min's inspirations and lineages~
JINEN Butoh by Atsushi Takenouchi
http://www.jinen-butoh.com/
Process-oriented psychology & conflict studies:
https://www.processwork.edu/what-is-processwork/
Life/Art Process by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin:
https://www.tamalpa.org/about-us/our-process
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WORDS ABOUT MIN’S HOLDING SPACE:
“I was surprised, touched, and carried through this experience, within the gentle, fluid container that Min created for us. I found new parts of myself and reconnected with old ones, stripping away the facade of who I wanted others to see and revealing the parts of me that have always tried to hide. I will forever remember this experience, which has opened doors for me as to what movement can look like and be.” - Jen
“Min facilitated sessions which included written reflections, storytelling, expressive movement, movement based in imagery and imagination, interview-type conversations, and drawing. The range of activities meant that an idea seeded in one area could move to another, and another, and eventually become something very different in form, yet connected in concept, to the initial inspiration. This experience, guided and supported by Min, invited (but never forced) me into the depths of memory and psyche, alternative movement pathways, and new perspectives. I experienced emotional opening and relief as a result of working with Min and a shift in how I related to old stories about my life and my body. The research felt important to my healing process and also empowered me to show up differently– more aware, present, and understanding– in my relationships. While no two sessions were alike, I always felt held in the patient and loving container that Min created.” - Nicola
images with deep movers from past workshop experiences
photography by Palo y Piedra
