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Documentations & summary: bØN ODORI Workshop Nr 3 ‘Trylledans for Hildur’

August 2019, 16.00 to 20.00, At a private house in Kliteskoven, Busene, Møn

Background: One of Toshie’s motivations to realize “bØN Odori – in the making of a land” derived from her personal affection for not only the island Møn, but also for her own memory of a special moment. Alette, who was the co-facilitator of the workshop, was one of the first persons who Toshie met during her first research trip to Møn with a group of artists (back in 2017, the group was named “Making Land Initiative”). While she recalled this trip, she felt that it was filled with energy of “wanting to know more”. We got to know about Alette and made an urgent appointment for the next morning. Her very spontaneous welcoming, hospitality with tea and home-baked cakes, story-telling, the family’s forest that is full of myths and history gave Toshie a great impression. Somehow it led her to an awareness about energy or metaphysical voice of a land. Fragments of time, humidity, wind, memory of yesterday and day before and the new magical story – the whole journey towards the specific meeting with something/someone that we were looking for – is the very core of how to meet the energy/spirits or listen to voices of a land. Answer can’t be short. With having this experience in the background, the workshop Nr 3 was particularly formed to reenact the sensitive and spiritual (meeting) point. It was co-facilitated with Alette.

Workshop Nr 3 ‘Trylledans for Hildur’ began as usual with the tea ceremony, then after, we walked into the family forest, particularly into Trylledansen. Trylledansen is the name of an area of Klinteskoven (Klint forest), where mythology about elves exists. There, Alette told a personal story about a large stone that is believed that a leader of the elves are living beneath. He is in one sense, the closest “neighbour” of the family. So it’s important for the family to keep a good relationship with the elf’s leader.

Thereafter, the participants individually walked into the forest to find particular tree branches who would said “Yes” to a suggestion, that they would come out from the forest and take part in the final presentation of “bØN Odori in the center of Møn, Stege. (If the branch said “No I don’t want to”, the participants were supposed to leave it where it belonged to.) Thereafter, body exercises and the group movements with the branches were facilitated by JOU.

After a tea break, the participants gathered around a small tree on the other side of the forest. It is thought that a spirit of a woman named “Hildur” had been trapped inside of the tree. “Hildur” has a sad history. Alette read a letter that a healer wrote for the tree. Thereafter, the participants offered one sound to the tree and slowly walked with the steps of Kocho-Kawasaki (see workshop nr. 1) along the tree and moved back to Alette’s house very slowly.The participants were having the sounding objects with them. The whole garden was filled with the sensitive sounds. It felt like for Toshie that everybody’s imperfect/unfinished sound and the short echos made a perfect organic moment that moving out of tree (past time) towards the house (current time) . The workshop ended with sharing reflections.

Workshop Design and Facilitation by Toshie Takeuchi and JOU/Odorujou. Co-facilitation: Alette Scavenius

Inquiry to: boenodorimoen@gmail.com

Video stills by Thomas Gunnar Bagge. All the copy right is reserved by bØN Odori – in the making of a land and by Toshie Takeuchi, 2019 –

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Documentations & summary: bØN ODORI Workshop Nr2, ‘Migration’

Location Ulvshale, Møn Sunday 4. Aug at 13.00 to 18.00

One of the important movements in the series of bØN ODORI workshop is to walk.

After opening the workshop with the “colour registration” and the tea ceremony, the participants did sensory walk into Unlvshale’s forest. The turning point of the walk was where we could meet a lot of small stones surfacing on the ground. JOU called it as “cemetery of ocean”. This phenomena happens as the results of rising earth’s crust, so the bottom of ocean have been transforming to the forest.

Thereafter, the participants did visual, sound – an environmental investigation with their senses at where tree stumps were creating a sort of line. They received signals and wisdom from the stumps and transformed their senses into movements and sound. Thereafter, we again took the basic pattern from Kocho Kawasaki (refer it at the page workshop nr1) but with Kei Wada‘s music, and made a circle movement. Now a days, Bon Odori in Japan mostly take place at parks or squares, and people dance around Yagura stage in circle. But in the old days, Bon Odori were happening more on the street or bridges. Therefore, at the end, the participants gave the slow steps and danced on the bridge between Ulvshale and Nyord area. English translation of “Ulvshale” is Wolf’s tale. “Nyord” means new word. Although this is the result of coincident, here, we could reflect one of our intention that is to suggest to make a bridge between different time and spaces in their consciousness, when they move. Past, Present and Future.

We closed the workshop with sharing our reflections. A small question for next time; If you recognize your inner deep ocean, how do you transform it to a forest?

Workshop Design and Facilitation by Toshie Takeuchi and JOU/Odorujou.

Inquiry to: boenodorimoen@gmail.com

Video stills by Thomas Gunnar Bagge. All the copy right is reserved by bØN Odori – in the making of a land and by Toshie Takeuchi, 2019 –

by Odori bøN

bØN ODORI Workshop Nr1, ‘Når arkiverne er i bevægelse’

English below..

Workshoppen starter med introduktion om japansk Bon Odori (Dans) og en performativ te-ceremoni af danser JOU / Odorujou og billedkunstner Toshie Takeuchi. Derefter vil vi sammen med medlemmer i Lokalhistorisk Forening Møn undersøge deres historiske arkiver. Herefter vil vi hver især skabe vores eget kropssprog og bevægelser inspireret af Bon Odori og dette analoge virtuelle historie eventyr. I sidste ende forsøger vi at skabe en gruppe-bevægelse ‘Arkiverne i bevægelse’ sammen.

Lad os gå ind i tidsrejsen og forvandle det, du føler dig til et udtryk!

Sted: Gården på Møns Museums
Tid: 2. August 2019
Dørene åbner kl. 12.30.
Workshoppen starter kl. 13.00.
Der vil være snacks og drikkevarer i pausen.

• Deltagelse i workshoppen er gratis inkl. mellemmåltid/aftensmad.
• Begrænset deltagerantal (max 10).
• Forhåndstilmelding nødvendig.
• Sprog: Dansk, engelsk, (japansk også velkomment)
• Vi foreslår at man også tager del i den afsluttende præsentation, performance og danse-event lørdag d. 17. august kl. 13 til 19 ved Møns Museum.

TILMELDING TIL EN ELLER FLERE WORKSHOPS (CLOSED)
Email: boenodorimoen@gmail.com

Link to fb event: https://www.facebook.com/events/925737197763197/

FLERE OPLYSNINGER
Toshie Takeuchi toshimoshirabbit@me.com, +4550396861
Thomas Bagge thomasbagge@gmail.com, +4521647064
Møns Museum https://www.moensmuseum.dk/da, +45 70 70 12 36

ENG: It starts with an introduction about Bon Odori (Dance) and a performative tea ceremony by dancer JOU / Odorujou and artist Toshie Takeuchi.
Then, together with board members of Local History Association Møn, we will examine their historical archives. Then each of us will create our own body language and movement inspired by Bon Odori and this analogue virtual story adventure. In the end, we try to create a group movement “The Moving Archives”

Location: Møns Museum, Storegade 75, 4780 Stege
Date: Fri 2nd Aug 13.00 to 18.00
Open from 12.30. Workshop starts at 13.00. Snack and drink are included.