An enthusiast about butô, which is one of the main influences on her work, Ana Rita Teodoro has intensified her artistic and socio-historic investigations, in particular during a research project at the Kazuo Ôno Dance Studio between 2015 and 2017. The talk Your teacher, please bears witness to this experience, by focusing on the special teaching from Yoshito Ôno that she received. With no particular model, given that the founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ôno did not devise a system of transmission, the apprenticeship of butô is reinvented on each occasion by its masters. Illustrated by moments of dance, which describe processes and methods as observed by the choreographer, the talk aims to plunge the audience into the heart of Japanese studios and reconstitute their atmosphere. It will also help to deconstruct the stubborn prejudices about this little-known genre, which is too easily reduced to the ghostly figures of its performers or the slowness of its execution.  

The Portuguese Ana Rita Teodoro has a Master from the CNDC in Angers and from the Université Paris 8, where she started working on her project Délirer l’anatomie, drawing on her scientific and philosophical studies. She recently received a grant 

to study with Yoshito Ohno from the Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian and was
a recipient of the Aide à la Recherche et au Patrimoine en Danse from the CN D, to continue her research into butoh. She has choreographed the works MelTe, Orifice Paradis, Rêve d’intestin, and Assombro (Fantôme Méchant). Ana Rita Teodoro is an associate artist at the CN D.
 

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Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).