Motimaru Dance Company (DE)

Motimaru is a dance company founded in Tokyo by Motoya Kondo (JP) and Tiziana Longo (IT). Their background lies in contemporary dance, martial arts, and butoh. They both trained at the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio and worked as dancers and stage assistants for Yoshito Ohno, son of Kazuo Ohno and co-founder of the Japanese avant-garde movement Butoh. Motimaru investigates through dance the deepest nature of human beings and questions the connection between body and mind, the essence of our true nature.

The company defines dance as a way to experience deeper reality of the existence and aims to build up a new and authentic method that reaches beyond any genre. Their approach and training have been enriched further by their anthropologic research of traditional, ritual and sacred dances of Japan, India, Bali, Tibet as well as Tibetan buddhism and yoga. The company is based in Berlin since 2010.

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