Butoh Workshop - Gio JU: A Room Inside the Body, (Posthuman Theatre, LBDC)

A Room Inside the Body

Subbody Butoh in London with Gio Ju

July 25–26, 2025 | Hosted by Posthuman Theatre / London Butoh Dance Company

Day 1 – Friday, July 25

🕕 18:00–21:00

📍 Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall St, EC3A 4AF

Day 2 – Saturday, July 26

🕔 17:00–21:00

📍 Chisenhale Dance Space, 64–84 Chisenhale Rd, E3 5QZ

Sink into the subtle subconscious body.

Open up the multidimensional room within without boundaries.

Experience the journey of the cosmic fetus with Gio Ju, the midwife of Subbody Butoh.

We are honoured to host Gio JU in London again for a two-day immersive workshop in Subbody Butoh. This is a rare opportunity to explore a movement practice rooted in deep listening, poetic imagination, and subconscious resonance.

At Posthuman Theatre / London Butoh Dance Company, we create platforms for transformative performance practices that explore the relationship between body, imagination, and world. Inspired by Butoh and expanded through embodied research, our work blends dance, philosophy, and experimental theatre.

🌐 More about us: www.posthumantheatre.com

Workshop Description

Day 1 – Subbody Butoh Experience

Subbody (subconscious & subtle body), where body and mind melt into one, has no concept, thought, or judgment. As pure life, it resonates with everything. In this state, there is no distinction between self and other here. Just resonates by being freely connected and separated with infinite patterns.

Subbody Butoh explores these infinite resonance patterns between oneself and the world through group experiments. It invites participants to open themselves to another dimension, becoming inhabitants of the unknown while dancing with boundless creativity.

Day 2 – Embodying Language and Imagination

Through Hijikata’s Butoh poem and cellular language, Qualia

We explore “Qualia”—a cellular language that is deeply personal, relative, resonant, and constantly changing. When we completely quiet our thoughts, multidimensional signals that transcend time and space appear and disappear inside and outside the body.We will also engage in body readings of unique Butoh poems created by Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of Butoh, as we work to embody language and imagination.

*“In the small room, some vegetables are grown around body

There is a room inside the body

Language between joints in each finger

Mysterious density Melting

Eyes on the back

Neck stretches to the inhuman length

The strange letters drawn by fingers will not stop

What are you dreaming?

In one Tatami Mat world, in my world

Finally, are you going to stand up,

What does actually mean ‘to stand’?”*

With Gio Ju

Since 2010, she has been training and researching at the Subbody Butoh School in Dharamsala, North India for five years. She has been guiding the class at the same school and Europe, Asia.

Starting with the stage of the dance company Ten Pen Chii (2013, Berlin, by Yumiko Yoshioka), she has been creating and performing Butoh solo and collaborative performances all over the world.

While expanding Butoh with a focus on Subbody Butoh for the past 15 years, she has come to deeply appreciate the value of the Subbody Butoh method and is opening long-term courses in Europe and India with Subbody Butoh School.

🔗 More details about Gio Ju: www.gioju.in

July 25–26, 2025 | London

🌀 Open to all levels – no prior experience needed

Day 1 – Friday, July 25

🕕 18:00–21:00

📍 Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall St, EC3A 4AF

Day 2 – Saturday, July 26

🕔 17:00–21:00

📍 Chisenhale Dance Space, 64–84 Chisenhale Rd, E3 5QZ

⚠️ Please note: each day takes place at a different venue.

🎟️ Limited capacity – book early to reserve your spot!

🔗 More info: www.posthumantheatre.com

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