The Idea
Idea, Concept und Art Direction:
Yumiko Yoshioka and delta RA´i

2011 the fifth
eX...it!
festival takes place already. None of its initiators in 1995
could have guessed that
eX...it!
would carry on for so long.
At the beginning there was one question:
Butoh – what is that?
Yumiko Yoshioka
and delta RA'i have constantly been asked this question since
co-founding
tatoeba-THÉÂTRE
DANSE GROTESQUE, the first German-Japanese
Butoh company, in 1987.
This led to the idea of an European Butoh meeting which was held
first in 1995.
It was called
eX...it! and as
a result of the huge popularity among
choreographers, participants, audience and media, a regular festival
has emerged, which is since then a highlight at
Schloss Broellin every 4 years.
What was formerly a pure Butoh dance festival has today become an
eXchange project for Butoh and contemporary dance. Nevertheless the
festival is still firmly anchored in Butoh, this Japanese expression
dance.
The initiators of
eX…it! would
like to offer with this project time and space for mutual teaching and
exchange.
Participation is open to professional- and semi-professional dancers
and amateurs.
Training units are arranged so that dancers of every level can further
develop their work.