Body Resonance based on organic Movement and Butho – Yumiko Yoshioka

"Body Resonance Based on Organic Movement and Butoh" is a workshop led by Yumiko Yoshioka. Her personal approach to bodywork combines Butoh practice with elements drawn from Noguchi Taiso gymnastics and various other Asian training methods. It prepares the body to receive and express dance and creativity.

The work begins with the idea that the body, soul, and world are composed of vibrational waves, continually producing resonances like echoes. Participants attune themselves to images, feelings, and sensations by first shaking off unnecessary tension. Yoshioka calls this process “neutralization”: moving toward a state close to zero, clearing away rust, and refining the body as an antenna for deeper layers of experience. Through transformation and concentration in dance, habitual forms can loosen, and resonant memories may surface. It is an attentive practice in which physical form opens up to shifting qualities of presence.

Yoshioka is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and artistic director, born in Tokyo in 1953 and based in Berlin since 1988. A third-generation Butoh artist, she was a longtime member of the Ariadone Company and later co-founded tatoeba Theatre Dance Grotesque. She also directed eX...it!, an international festival in Germany, from 1995 to 2019.