Release and Stay Open — Workshop with Vangeline
Butoh Workshop “The Art of Receiving” with Vangeline
Receptivity | Noguchi Taiso | Nervous System
Join us for a supportive Butoh workshop with Vangeline where you can deepen your connection to yourself, others, and the universe.
Taught by:
Vangeline – teacher, choreographer, and dancer based in New York, specializing in Japanese Butoh.
• Artistic Director of Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute
• Founder of the New York Butoh Institute Festival
About the Workshop:
Vangeline’s Butoh workshops are internationally acclaimed for their unique blend of traditional Butoh with scientific and somatic approaches. This workshop focuses on receptivity, Noguchi Taiso, and the nervous system, with special attention to activating the parasympathetic nervous system — the part responsible for rest, digestion, and relaxation.
Through Butoh and Noguchi Taiso (Noguchi Gymnastics), participants will learn to move with minimal muscular effort and maximum fluidity, cultivating a state of receptivity that allows for deeper physical and emotional release. This work helps down-regulate stress responses, encourages presence and relaxation, and can transform one’s relationship to movement — whether you are a performer seeking to refine your craft or someone exploring embodiment and creative expression.
Noguchi Taiso or Noguchi gymnastics is the foundation of Butoh. Professor Noguchi developed this release technique between the 1950s and 1970s in Japan, in search of a method “devoid of ego or violence”.
What can we allow to blossom when we deeply release tension, and when we enter into a harmonious dialogue with gravity?
Because Butoh is not about “showing” it is also not about judging what we’ve been shown. Together in movement led by acclaimed Butoh performer Vangeline, participants will experience an opportunity for a great opening.
Arbejdet med Vangeline har været som at få en universal nøgle til fysisk og mentalt nærvær som kunstner. Jeg bruger det jeg har lært med Vangeline hver eneste dag i alle de kunstneriske processer jeg indgår i.
- Christine Albeck Børge
