Breaking Forms: Butoh, Voice, and Digital Bodies
Exploring how voice, comic energy, and AI can disrupt and expand the deep sensitivity of Butoh performance.
Performing Arts Platform, Aarhus
The artistic research
In this research, the artist aims to expand the scope of their artistic language as a performer.
Yael Gaathon´s work has for many years been rooted in Butoh - a practise with focus, sensitivity, and vulnerbility. While these qualities continue to form a core of Gaathon´s artistic identity, a sense of confinement has emerged over time, in relation to recurring tempos and embodied forms.
This residency marks a pivotal moment - a deliberate step toward liberation from established patterns and expectations. It offers an opportunity to re-engage with elements from Gaathon’s earlier acting training: the use of voice, comic expression and more dynamic energies. Rather than abandoning the essence of Butoh, Gaathon seeks to layer it with new performative textures, cultivating a space where depth and playfulness coexist.
the artist
The exploration of AI and digital tools will also play a part during this residency - not as mere instruments, but as creative partners that can disrupt habitual methods, challenge perceptions, and open up unexpected performative possibilities.
During the residency, the artists can enter into dialogue with sparring partners of their choice who can contribute to their artistic investigation.
This specific residency is co-curated and made possible through a collaboration with Performing Arts Platform in Aarhus.