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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

Documentations & summary: bØN ODORI Workshop Nr1“Når arkiverne er i bevægelse”

Møns Museums, 2 August 2019, 13.00 to 18.00

‘bØN Odori – in the making of a land’ Møn started with the workshop Nr 1 ‘Når arkiverne er i bevægelse’ (When the archives are in motion). The workshop is made in collaboration with Lokalhistorisk Forening Møn and Møns Museum. In 1985, people who felt missing Møns’ stories formed a group and set up the association. Their archiving activities are run by passionate members and it is all voluntary works. The archive in their office is consisted with articles, photos, books, hand-made song books, post cards – any sort of printed materials that (local) people bring and donate to them.  

A sounding metal tube and a Japanese tea ceremony opened the workshop. We used a few of the museum collections for the tool of the tea ceremony. Great variety of participants with different background came together. After a group introduction, the participants were led into the office of Lokalhistorisk Forening Møn and selected one material – articles, stories or visual materials anything which they wanted to study. And then, they carefully created three keywords.

After a short break, JOU facilitated warming up bodies as a group in an intimate circle shape. While they keep this shape, they introduced those three keywords each other. From the key words, the participants created individual movements and presented each other. Thereafter, the participants have practiced  a short movement and a pattern from “Kocho-Kawasaki“, which is one of old Japanese Bon Odori song from Gujo city. “Kocho” means an old melodic tune before western 12 scale was introduced. At the end of the workshop, Kocho-Kawasaki’s movement transformed into their own individual movements.  We closed the workshop with sharing our reflections.

Workshop Design and Facilitation by Toshie Takeuchi and JOU/Odorujou. Co-Facilitation by Lokalhistorisk Forening, Møn

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 Toshie Takeuchi, 2019 –

by Odori bøN

About JOU/Odorujou

JOU is a Japanese contemporary dance artist, choreographer, performance director, and production-turg. She has been based in Tokyo since 2000 after living in U.S.A. and Malaysia. She has won a Special Prize for Foreign Choreographer at The 2008 Seoul International Choreography Festival. Currently, she is a part time lector at faculty of media at Musashino Art University and Tokyo Polytechnic University.
Besides her career as a dance artist, JOU founded and directed Osumi Kagoshima Art Festival (2012-15), aimed to provide artists and the local residents opportunity to be connected through interactive and collaborative performance and events.

Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/odorujou

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bØN Odori Workshop Nr.5, ‘In the making of a land’

English below..

bØN Odori Workshop nr.5 ‘In the making of a land’ er den sisdte workshop i ‘bØN Odori’ projektet. Workshoppen finder sted på hos en nystartet kunstnerdrevet forening ‘På Den Anden Side’ i Hårbølle, Møn. Sammen med grundlæggerne af foreningen og deltagerne i det akademiske researchnetværk ‘CCCA – Collaboration and Community-Building in Contemporary Art’, vil vi på legende vis diskutere og undersøge “Hvad er fællesskab?”, “Hvordan kan kunst bidrage til at formgive fremtidens fællesskaber?”
Inspireret af tankerne og diskussionerne vil vi hver især skabe individuelle bevægelser og sprog. Derefter vil vi lave en gruppedans, der måske får et uventet, flydende, klumpet, organisk, smeltende-druer-agtigt format, som på sin vis måske ikke har meget at gøre med den oprindelige japanske Bon Odori.

Sted: På Den Anden Side, Hårbøllevej 40, 4792 Askeby
http://2side.dk/

Dørene åbner kl. 12.30. Workshoppen starter kl. 13.00.

• Deltagelse i workshoppene er gratis inkl.
• Workshoppen er inkl. bØN aftensmad
• Max 10 deltagere
• 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. (Åben for publikum kl. 16 til 19. Der er gratis adgang.)

Forhåndstilmelding til workshops er nødvendig på: (CLOSED)

boenodorimoen@gmail.com
Toshie Takeuchi: 50 39 68 61

K-O-N-T-O: info@k-o-n-t-o.dk
Elisabeth Kiss: 28 56 03 43

ENG:
Workshop no.5 ‘In the making of a land’ is the last workshop of ‘bØN Odori’ project.

It takes place at a newly started artist-initiated association “På Den Anden Side” (“On the other side” in Eng.) in Hårbølle, Møn. Together with the founders of the association and participants of the academic research network ‘CCCA – Collaboration and Community-Building in Contemporary Art’, we will playfully discuss and investigate “What is community?”, “How can art help to shape the communities of the future? “
Inspired by the thoughts and discussions, each of us will create individual movements and languages. Then we will make a group dance that may have an unexpected, fluid, chunky, organic, melting-grape-like format that maybe not much to do with the original Japanese Bon Odori.

Location: På Den Anden Side, Hårbøllevej 40, 4792 Askeby (http://2side.dk/)
Date: Wed 14th Aug 13.00 to 20.00
Open from 12.30. Workshop starts at 13.00.
Dinner included

Sing up at: boenodorimoen@gmail.com
Toshie Takeuchi: 50 39 68 61

K-O-N-T-O: info@k-o-n-t-o.dk
Elisabeth Kiss: 28 56 03 43