Butoh School.

Butoh translates to "walk on the road with the same attitude as the Samurai". To survive as a warrior the Samurai trained himself on three levels: the body, the mind, and the spirit. It is said that, in butoh, the dancer must train himself the same way on all three levels of existence. The dancer may achieve a high standard as a performer by training only the physical, but he can reach this high standard and way beyond with less effort, less struggle, and, if any at all, less injuries by integrating the landscapes of the mind and the spirit as active parts of his daily discipline.

The intention is to give the dancer possibilities to develop a broad and efficient scenic expression, to interpret and describe the body as unavoidable and insistent in all manifestations, even behind the most refined philosophy.

More than being reduced to an interpreter of a choreographed ego, the dancer is the dance itself. If there is any effort at all, it will be to dissolve the conflict between the accidental natural element and the controlled human element, discipline in spontaneity and spontaneity in discipline.

There is a wonderful freedom and space in moving from the ego to the center, where the dancer gains a clearer feeling of originality and strength.