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Butoh – Vicky Filippa and Alex Mitros

The Timeless Body – Transformations in Time, Space, and Matter
Butoh workshop with live music

The body is an open field, a natural landscape that bears the changes of seasons, the weight of events, and the vibrations of time. It is a substance that never lies, a matter in constant transformation, persisting in its existence through its borrowed nature. In this workshop, the body is approached not as something owned but as an eternally unborn possibility that shifts according to the moment, the role, or the story.
Through Butoh techniques, we explore the concept of time: how the past and future converge into the “here and now,” how the body becomes a vessel of the “elsewhere and otherwhen,” transcending age and stereotypes. We will work with undulating breath, the dialogue between flesh and bones, and rhythms that defy the extremes of the minimal and the maximal, the tragic and the comic.
Our goal is to free the body from its limits and create a timeless space of expression where age and distinctions dissolve, leaving room for transformation, beauty, and trust. Through organic warm-ups, dynamic stances, improvisation exercises, and Butoh techniques, the workshop culminates in a collective performance, a mirror of the timeless essence of existence.

OPEN PRESENTATION
We invite you to the open presentation of the workshop “The Timeless Body – Transformations in Time, Space, and Matter” by Vicky Filippa and Alex Mitros on Sunday 20/07 at 17:30 at Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre.
(Free entrance)

Level: All
Ages: 17+

 

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Vicky Filippa

Vicky Filippa, a dancer, choreographer, and teacher of Japanese contemporary Butoh, pioneers radical practices and aesthetics of the genre in Greece while collaborating with international artists. Her vision focuses on developing a new vocabulary of movement and stagecraft under the title Quantum Body. Since 2008, she has been systematically teaching, directing, and choreographing, with her works presented in Greece and abroad. In 2015, she founded Quantum Body Athens Butoh Dance Group, now one of the largest Butoh communities worldwide, with a professional division of 20 dancers. The group operates independently, supported by its members and audience.
Alongside her artistic pursuits, Vicky holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Crete and a master’s in Bioinformatics. She has worked as a researcher at the Academy of Athens and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Medical School of Athens. In December 2021, she published her first poetry book, “The Girl in the Wooden Dress.”

Alex Mitros

Alex Mitros is a composer, performer, and music producer. Initially earning a scholarship to the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, he soon turned his focus entirely to music, which has been his passion since childhood. Starting his career as a performer, Alex has been working as a music producer and composer in theater since 2022. His work explores diverse musical genres, leading to bold and unconventional compositions and performances.
He has collaborated with directors including: Federico Romani (Seeking the Lost Paradise, 2025) Atsushi Takenuchi (Frequency in Motion, 2025) Vicky Filippa (En-Grave-INK, Venice 2024; dARTs, Amsterdam 2024 and December 2024) Tasos Bekiaris (Saragine, Arroyo Theater, 2022) Angela Brouskou (Eumenides, Elefsina 2023 European Capital of Culture; Medea Material, BIOS, 2024).
Since 2020, Alex has also been pursuing a Psychology degree with a scholarship at Deree – The American College of Greece.

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Single Splendour Stroke – Motoya Kondo

Butoh Workshop
“One splendour stroke instead of hundreds of movements”

When we encounter a masterpiece of a Japanese tea bowl, it is so silent and ordinary. It expresses nothing or insists on anything, and yet it represents a vast universe in a single bowl. Here, intricate colours, designs, and shapes can often hide the essence beneath… Instead of hundreds of flowing lines of movements, we will explore one splendour stroke. A single stroke that expands into the vast space. One that leads us to recognize the stillness behind the movement. One filled with the primordial richness of existence beyond mere emotional and sentimental confessions.
In search of the ground of existence, the space behind the movement of body and mind, let the wind dance in the sky.
The workshop will include:
– preparing the body to be an objective object
– exploring external anatomy and contemplative anatomy
– basic movement principles
– connecting breath and body
– different texture of movement
– deconstructing the concept of time
– reconnecting with silent space in the midst of the movement

Ages: Adults
Level: All

Photo credit: Alexander Malecki

Motoya Kondo

Born in Nagoya, Japan, choreographer, dancer, and co-founder of Motimaru Dance Company. From 2005 he had been studying butoh with Yoshito Ohno, son of Kazuo Ohno and worked as his assistant. After 2010 he has started field work research of local and traditional dances in Japan, India, Nepal, Spain, and Bali, studied Balinese dance with Agun Anom Putra, I Made Djimat, and Ida Bagus Oka Wirjana. Since 2008, he has been immersed in the practice and study of Eastern contemplative traditions, particularly following the Tibetan traditions, and bridging between contemporary art practices and the age-old wisdom.
He has been performing and teaching in: Venezia Biennale 2010, 9th International Choreography Competition “No Ballet”, International Dance Festival Lucky Trimmer 2016, Hildesheim University, Leipzig University, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, etc., Europe, Asia, Australia in over 35 cities.