Weekly Butoh Classes, Jams & Performances
2025/2026
Butoh Course September 2025 - June 2026
by London Butoh Dance Company
Saturdays 5:00–7:00pm
@ Theatre Deli, Leadenhall
Wednesdays 11:00am–1:00pm
@ Walworth Town Hall, Elephant & Castle
This Butoh Course offers an immersive, process-based approach to movement, presence, and performance.
Through a mix of somatic practices and improvisational structures, participants will explore transformation, embodiment, and the unknown.
Each month includes:
🔹 Weekly Classes (choose Saturday or Wednesday group)
🔹 1 Open Butoh Jam (attend at either location; jams led by members of London Butoh Dance Company)
🔹 1 Monthly Public Sharing (last Saturday of the month, 6–7pm at Theatre Deli)
What to Expect:
Participants will work with:
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Butoh techniques and improvisation
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Movement meditation and presence training
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Physical theatre, Noguchi Taiso, Yoga
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Visualisations, partner/group exercises
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Basic Butoh theory and guided reading
Sessions include warm-up, creative exploration, and space for personal and collective movement research.
Accessibility & Booking
Classes are open to all. No prior experience is needed.
All ages, backgrounds, and bodies are welcome.
You can start in any month.
You can also book drop-in sessions (link below), but we encourage booking a full month to experience the method in the best way.
Email posthumantheatre@gmail.com with your name and the month/months you want to book.
Pricing (bursary info below in blue)
Both groups meet 4-5 times per month (depends on how many days in the month); sessions are 2 hours long.
You can join either the Saturday Group or the Wednesday Group. Both groups meet together on the last Saturday at Theatre Deli for the public performance.
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Saturday Group (5–7pm at Theatre Deli):
£60 per month
£115 for two months
£165 for three months -
Wednesday Group (11am–1pm at Walworth Town Hall):
£65 per month
£125 for two months
£175 for three months
All sessions are 2 hours. Fees cover weekly classes, one monthly jam, and the opportunity to participate in a monthly public sharing.
Note:
Both groups can attend the monthly Butoh jam (held at either location) but not the class.
The last Saturday of every month features an optional public sharing (6–7pm at Theatre Deli) for both groups.
To book one or more months email posthumantheatre@gmail.com and to book a drop-in session follow this link.
📅 Monthly Schedule Example (some months have a four and some a five week schedule. Price is the same for each)
Wednesday Group
🕚 Walworth Town Hall, 11am–1pm
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Week 1 – Class 1
Week 2 – Class 2
Week 3 – Class 3
Week 4 – Jam Session
Experimental open session — all participants from both groups welcome.
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Final Saturday – Public Sharing (6–7pm at Theatre Deli)
Open to all participants. You’re invited to share a solo, duo, trio, or group piece. The evening ends with a full-group resonance improvisation.
Saturday Group
🕔 Theatre Deli, 5–7pm
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Week 1 – Class 1
Week 2 – Class 2
Week 3 – Jam Sessions one on Wed and one on Saturday
Experimental open session — all participants from both groups welcome. -
Week 4 – Public Sharing (6–7pm at Theatre Deli)
Share what you’ve created during the month. All formats welcome — solo, duet, trio, or group. Always closes with a full ensemble improvisation.
🎭 The public performance is a safe, informal space for creativity and experimentation — open to all course participants from either group.
Monthly Public Sharing — Performance & Community
On the last Saturday of every month, both groups come together at Theatre Deli for a public sharing from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. This event is an open, supportive space for participants to work on and perform original material developed during the course.
Participants are warmly invited to share movement explorations as solo performers, duos, trios, or groups. This sharing encourages creativity, risk-taking, and connecting with others in the community through Butoh’s expressive and transformative language.
The final piece of each sharing is always a full group free resonance improvisation — a collective, spontaneous experience that brings together the energy and discoveries of the evening.
Participation in the public sharing is optional but highly encouraged, offering a valuable opportunity for embodied learning and performance development in a safe and nurturing environment.
🌑 Bursary Opportunity – Weekly Butoh Classes (Sep–Dec 2025)
Posthuman Theatre (London Butoh Dance Company) is offering six bursaries for our weekly Butoh classes this autumn — three bursaries for the Wednesday group and three for the Saturday group. These bursaries are intended to support those who would otherwise not be able to afford to join the course, as part of our ongoing commitment to making dance and theatre training in London more accessible.
Bursary Categories (for each day)
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Disabled bursary – for participants with disabilities
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Global Majority bursary – for participants from Black, Asian, and other global majority communities
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Open bursary – open to all who face financial barriers
Applicants should specify which bursary they are applying for and which group (Wednesday or Saturday) in their application.
🗓 Duration: 3 months (September – December 2025)
📍 Options: Choose either our Wednesday or Saturday group
🌐 Class info: Butoh Classes London
How to Apply
To apply for a bursary, please email us at posthumantheatre@gmail.com with a short introduction:
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Tell us a little about yourself and the type of bursary you are applying for
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Share your motivations for applying
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Indicate whether you would prefer the Wednesday or Saturday group
✨ Applications are now open. Deadline: Friday 5 September 2025 but we might close it early if enough applications come through.
We look forward to welcoming new bodies, new voices, and new journeys into the shared space of Butoh.
FAQ
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How do I book? Email posthumantheatre@gmail.com with your name and the month/months you want to book.
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Do I need prior dance experience? No, everyone is welcome.
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Can I attend if I have a disability or I am unfit? Absolutely. Just drop us an email at poshumantheeatre@gmail.com and tell us more.
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Can I attend just one class?
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Is there a concession?
Yes, 10% concession for unemployed, pensioners, disabled and students. That is for monthly payments only. -
Is the public sharing performance mandatory?
No, but it’s highly encouraged for growth and connection.
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About Aleksandar
Aleksandar is an international performer, choreographer, yoga teacher, and dance anthropologist. He has studied Butoh extensively with renowned instructors such as Rhizome Lee, Ken Mai, Mushimaru, Saga Kobayashi, Julie Becton Gillum, Adam Koan, Imre Thormann, and others. Aleksandar is the founder of London Butoh Dance Company and Posthuman Theatre.
Participant Feedback
"What a brilliant experience. Butoh bridges the worlds of visual art, performance art and dance in a way that really intrigues me. I knew very little about it before joining the classes. What I have learnt has opened me up to all sorts of creative possibilities. There is a lot of experimenting through using certain Butoh practices during the sessions. It can be challenging and also very funny. I especially enjoyed learning with the group and creating my own Butoh piece and sharing that with an audience. Definitely feel inspired to continue learning more."
— Alison
*"One of the things that felt really liberating, and an exploration of the body in greater depth, was the connection of the inner vision, through description, joined with movement that comes from within, as a reaction to the feelings, sounds and sensations that descriptive vision unfolds. For me, embodying those inner visions and feelings felt like being physically present and engaging in a waking dream. It shed preconceptions of limitations of the experience of being human. It often felt like a posthuman experience!
The engagement of body and voice for the act of inner vision brought forth a connection that enhanced the potency of the experience; it felt like a spiritual journey, very much explorative with body, mind, and voice, from an inner informed intuition. That experience is useful in the feeling of being embodied in existence. As a musician working with voice, I found that the body’s deep connection and physical/facial expression through movement allowed for fewer boundaries on vocal expression, and I look forward to merging Butoh with my vocal and musical practice more!"*
— Christina
"What struck me most about Aleks' weekly Butoh classes was his skill to gently encourage exploring unfamiliar inner spaces and experiences based on powerful imagery — an amazing journey into an unknown territory called ‘me’."
— Klaus, London, 70 years old
"I have found the first term amazing. I really enjoyed the challenge of working in silence and the exercises using the imagination."
— Denize
"Aleks’ workshops and classes have taken me across thresholds and into images and experiences that have touched me deeply."
*"Butoh as an art, along with Aleks’ gentle and secure facilitation, offers subtle and often profound exploration of how the body wants to speak as well as what wants to be spoken. It is a moving process of imagination which encourages rich and deep integration. Each individual, as well as the group as its own entity, morph into aspects, atmospheres and characters that are as captivating as they are cathartic.
There is appreciation, delight, curiosity, playfulness and acceptance of the vast range of human experiences — messy, difficult, ugly, joyful and beautiful. Aleks’ guidance encourages me to take growthful risks and fine-tune my physical and emotional responses. This has been especially useful for me as a psychotherapist working with trauma and how it impacts the nervous system. There is so much in these practices for anyone to learn and discover. I highly recommend diving in."*
— Rachel Jane Cooke, Intersectional Relational Therapist & Writer
