Workshop with Yuko Kaseki und Megumi Eda
As part of the tanzOFFensive 2025
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Background
In their joint workshop, Megumi Eda (ballet) and Yuko Kaseki (Butoh) combine contrasting movement languages to create an intensive, experimental training. Inspired by contrasts such as fire and water or light and shadow, they explore the creative potential of physical and mental extremes. The focus is not on technique, but on the fusion of heterogeneous forms of expression - powerful, poetic and challenging.
Biography
Yuko Kaseki is a butoh dancer, choreographer and performer based in Berlin. Her internationally exhibited works combine butoh, improvisation, visual art, text and sound. She has presented poetic-experimental performances in over 30 countries, often with artists from a wide range of disciplines and skills, for example with Theater Thikwa. Her work reflects identity, boundaries and otherness.
Megumi Eda is a dancer and filmmaker. After stints with the Hamburg Ballet, Dutch National Ballet and Rambert Dance Company, she became a founding member of Armitage Gone! Dance in New York (Bessie Award 2004). She now lives in Berlin and develops multimedia works on topics such as war trauma, women's rights and the abuse of power in the dance world - including with Yuko Kaseki in DIVINE (2023).
Registration
In the workshops, you can discover new approaches to movement, work creatively, and learn directly from the festival artists. The three-hour workshops offer practical insights into their work—from technique and movement to the ideas and concepts behind the pieces. They take place in the EISFABRIK theater spaces, where the performances are presented. A unique opportunity to experience dance in an inspiring environment, try out new things, and exchange ideas with other dance enthusiasts.
Please note: The number of participants is limited. The workshop language is English.
Prices: Regular price €30; concessions €15 (students free).
