Butoh Curious Chi – A resource for butoh performance enthusiasts since 2014
Description: Physical experience is the leading edge of thought... Tossie van Tonder: Dancer-psychologist, writer, mentor, specialist in the field of dynamic transformation giving opportunities to unleash what is invisible and intelligible in the human being, group and organisation.
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Immersion is experience at the leading edge of thought — the furthest extension of that thought. It is the best tool with which we help ourselves away from limited ways of seeing. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you. Philosophy and tools of creativity and wisdom evoke new desires, a particular life force. This work is ancient and yet, not been born, except at the moment of rapture.
Improvisation as immersion is experience of the leading edge of thought - the furthest extension of that thought. It evokes new desires which then summons a particular life force which needs to be sustained. The unknown is a place too poorly applauded.
Against the backdrop of racial tension and sincere attempts to overcome these within the intricate fabric of South African politics and society, a woman’s journey towards herself as South African, White, Afrikaans, dancer, lover and mother gets to the heart of being African.
Butoh Curious Chi – A resource for butoh performance enthusiasts since 2014