From December 5 to 13 Ria Keburia Residency will conduct a 9-day workshop with a renowned master Katsura Kan, who will visit Georgia for the first time. For nine days, Kan will be teaching several classes a day on traditional Japanese Noh theater, Butoh, as well as giving lectures and engaging in individual work with participants.

Butoh is an avant-garde style of contemporary dance that emerged in Japan after World War II, where the emphasis is not on form but on the ways in which the dancer moves. Katsura Kan is a Zen master and a dancing legend, at 70 years old moving from Japan and China to Latin America, the USA, Australia, and Europe, uniting small Butoh theater groups into a global network.

His body is like a balancing pagoda, and his gestures resemble tectonic shifts. An important part of his biography is his collaboration with one of the founding fathers of Butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata. Katsura Kan was the last person Tatsumi choreographed.