Gustavo Thomas Butoh Vlog

A Butoh Dance Video Journal

About this:

I'm an actor, playwright and stage director living in Toronto. I've been seduced by Butoh and its creators and masters: Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno; their heirs are my teachers, and my exploration follows their source. Butoh has become my way...
This is mostly part of my daily Butoh training, and nothing else. After walking and working with some postures and inner images, a short choreography emerges, that's what you see in this Butoh vlog. The music you hear usually is not what I was listened to when I was in the training, it was added later. You'll also see some documents around that training (aside of video) but not in excess.
My teacher is Yoshito Ohno (son of Kazuo Ohno), but I also had some courses with Jocelyne Montpetit, Denise Fujiwara, Yuri Nagaoka & Seisuko,, and Natsu Nakajima, all of them great Butoh dancers and teachers.

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April 24, 2012

The inner movement in this Chinese sculpture is astounding. I can think about it as a real teaching about inner body movement in my Butoh daily training.