The OT301 has been squatted (1999) and bought (2006) by a diverse, international community that is united in an association called EHBK. We run this alternative, not-for-profit platform as a collective, in which housing, workspaces and public functions are combined to contribute to the arts, politics and subculture.

MOLECULAR DANCE 

Butoh Workshop with Maruska Ronchi 

Bodlabot Studio (Ot301)
OT301Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam - The Netherlands 

5-6 October
Saturday and Sunday 14h00-17h00 

Info and registration maruska.ronchi@gmail.com 

Price: two days sliding scale €60-70- one day only €40

All cells in our body consist of atoms bonded together. These bonds are in perpetual transformation, change, break, rejoin, in an eternal dance, made possible by space and energy. Human existence relies on connections and exchanges too. To understand these connections, we need space and silence, allowing us to sense life's dance. 

This workshop explores innovative ways to create personal movement, emphasizing the spaces and stillness between movements within our bodies. Guided explorations with concrete and abstract imagery help us discover new interactions with space and others. The silence between movements is the door opener of new possibilities. 

Each individual is a beautiful and unique form of life, interconnected with everything. Let's discover our unique qualities and movements and share them as gifts with others, strengthening the ties that unite us. 

Maruska Ronchi is a dancer and choreographer.
Graduated in Contemporary Dance, she met Butoh in 2009 with Atsushi Takenouchi. She studied with him for 14 year becoming his assistant in the Butoh School in Italy where she could practice deeply, learning and teaching. She met other important butoh master as Yumiko Yoshioka, Yoshito Ohno, Minako Seki, Seisaku, Carlotta Ikeda, Ima Tenko, Natsu Nakajima,Semimaru (Sankai Yuku) Imre Tohrman, Masaki Iwana, among others.
Her research is an alchemical process which seeks physical and spiritual transmutation in the matter of the body. Investigating not only the mouvement but also the stillness, the void, the silence, and the space in between.
She travels around the world sharing her dance and practices through performances and workshops, and collaboration with international artists. She present her works all over the world, in Canada, Japan, Mauritius, and many countries in Europe.