Body_Prayer- a dance prayer
a dance performance with the Butohatelier
by Stefan Maria Marb
Premiere on 10 May 2025, 8 pm;
2nd performance at approx. 9.15 p.m.  

as part of the Long Night of Music
in the church St.Paul, Munich, St.-Pauls-Platz 11

Tickets in advance at München Ticket
or at the box office in the church from 7.45 pm

In the dance performance Body_Prayer we turn to a spiritual dimension, to prayer and its expression in dance.  In this existential communication, we ask for something that is missing or oppressing us, we articulate a deep longing and at the same time open ourselves to an unknown (jap. ankoku) dimension, an undefined space of desires. Our request first arises in the mind and then expresses itself through our body posture, for example by throwing ourselves on the floor or kneeling down in humility. Collectively or alone, depending on culture and religion, many forms of body language are possible. Our human being appears as a whole, which is larger than our body. In her writings, the philosopher Edith Stein describe this phenomen as a zero point of orientation. This means that everything comes together at this zero point, our ego becomes the body and a whatever distance is no longer possible here. It is therefore soul, subject, feeling and emotion all in one. In Christianity, the body of Christ is particularly honoured during a mass, it is a decisive fixed point and a turning point, as it embodies the symbol of a resurrection and is therefore the pledge of victory over death. In some religious representations, Jesus even dances with the dead as the Risen One.

In Butoh, man dances with his entire bodily existence and moves in the unknown (jap. ankoku) space of his fragile being. The performance Body_Prayer stages and choreographs the praying and supplicating body in all its fervour and neediness. It thematises the antagonism that exists in our culture between our material body and the mostly neglected spiritual dimension. Driven by the live music and the words of the actor, the dancers of the Butohatelier perform in the entire vast space of the church in St Paul.

Director and choreographer: Stefan Maria Marb
Assistance: Alexander Strauß
Words and dance: Gerd Lohmeyer
Organ: Peter Gerhartz
Cello: Jost-H.Hecker
Dance: Marcela D`Amico , Maximilian Ettenhuber, Gabriele Hafner, Jonathan Heck, Petra Helmle, Sieglinde Maerzke, Lilith Neerpasch, Eugenie Nietmann, Andrea Stapfer, Angelika Straßberger, Maria Thomaser, Angelika Thomas- Roper und  Hanne Wölfle

weitere Informationen:www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/ordinariat/ressort-4-seelsorge-und-kirchlichesleben/kunstpastoral/termine-der-kunstpastoral/100235

Stefan Maria Marb ist Mitglied der Tanztendenz München

Pic: Aleksandra Kwasnik

Butohclass with Stefan Maria Marb
at Tanztendenz München, Lindwurmstr.88

for beginners and advanced

regular classes : on wednesdays, 7 till 8.30 pm
start: may, 14
fees: 240€.- (for 10 classes)
15€.- ( try out); 30 €.- ( single class)



registration and information: 049/89/7148848 or info@butoh-marb.de

Pic: Volker Derlath

Into the open expanse
Kunst.Andacht (art.devotion) mit Stefan Maria Marb
in the church of St.Paul Munich, St.-Pauls-Platz 11
March,16, 2025, 7.30 pm


free entrance

Pic: Volker Derlath

Hybrid Vienna Butoh Art Festival
Online Meeting am 25.11.2024

In 2024, we will hold a meeting between producers of representative Butoh festivals from Europe, Asia, Americas and Australia. The meeting aims to present the Butoh dance environment in each context, realities, manifestations, places of research and reflections, as well as future perspectives for the same. Likewise, the meeting's fundamental proposal is to establish a connection between festivals and producers, strengthening their actions and creating an international network. Stefan Maria Marb was also invited.

Link

Foto: Stefan Hagen

Lazarus- a white shadow
Butohperformance with livemusic-Stefan Maria Marb

shows : june, 29 and 30, 8 pm
at Einstein Kultur,
Halle 2 Einsteinstr. 42, munich

" How does one can dance without a body?...In the hereafter we can continue to dance as a spirit, as a ghost" ( Kazuo Ohno)
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Here the Video of the performance

The death is a dancer.
The Lazarus project artistically addresses the loss of a loved one and the deep personal incision associated with it by attempting to find a body-poetic way of dealing with the subject of death. The protagonist embarks on an archaeological and emotional journey of memory which, driven by the sounds of compelling live music, leads to the possibility of a resurrection of the deceased.

Choreography: Stefan Maria Marb
assistant: Alexander Strauß
Butoh Performance: Stefan Maria Marb
Derwisch: Boris Kammin
Piano: Masako Ohta
stoneharp: Christoph Nicolaus
cello: Jost-H.Hecker
lightdesign: Michael Kunitsch
costume: Machado Costumes



a production by Stefan Maria Marb
Stefan Maria Marb is a member of Tanztendenz München
Einstein Kultur

pic by Stefan Hagen and Dorothee Elfring;
graphics by Sophie Brand

Butohworkshop with Tanja Zgonc
at Tanztendenz München



june, 15 and 16, 2024

In the upcoming workshop Tanja Zgonc will focus at the movement with the back and at the poetry of the dance with our invisible strings.
In our bodycells these strings are ever stored and present, but mostly we are not conscious about. In Butoh we can find and experience them.
Tanja Zgonc works as a professor for butohdance at the academy for acting in Ljubljana/Slovenija ( AGRFT) and also as an independent choreographer. She created by herself several successful danceproductions, like KAGAMI and KOORA, which were both rewarded with national slovenian prizes.
After her education in Modern dance she dedicated her further studies to the Butoh with the old masters Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda. For Tanja Butoh is a method and a movement priniciple, where you research your own psychophysical traces. Therefore she developed her own specific style of movement, where the main focus lies on the expressive motoric of the back. On top of this Tanja uses the breathe as a creative and dynamical element.

place: Tanztendenz München, Lindwurmstr.88/V
times: saturday and sunday, 11am till 4pm
fee: 260€.-
early birds ( payment till may, 20): 230€.-
transaction: Stefan Marb
IBAN DE50700100800424939802
BIC: PBNKDEFF

the workshop is organised by Stefan Maria Marb
the partizipation is on your own risk

application and information: 0049/ 89/ 7148848; info@butoh-marb.de

pic by Darja Stravs-Tisu

Butoh and machine
by Stefan Maria Marb

Pics of the show!

Danceperformance with the partizipants of the
Butohatelier 2024
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shows: may, 4 and 5, 8.30pm
place:Firma Kühnlein Gummi Kunststoffe
Mammendorf, Mannesmannstr. 2

free entrance - donations are welcome

Stefan Maria Marb is a member of Tanztendenz München.

pic: Hanne Wölfle

Liquid Face - Open Air Butohperformance
by Stefan Maria Marb and the Butohatelier
June, 3 &4, 2022, 8.30pm
at the park of Mohr-Villa, munich- Freimann, Situlistr.75


Please read the interview about the new performance by Stefan Maria Marb and the Butohatelier, here!

pic by Aleksandra Kwasnik

Danceperformance "Engel"
Stefan Maria Marb with the Butohatelier
Premiere live, july, 23, 2021,
8.30 pm at Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke München
More shows: july, 24 and 25


watch the video of Diether Sommer

"...Jeder Engel ist schrecklich" ( from the Duineser Elegien, Rainer Maria Rilke)

choreographer and director: Stefan Maria Marb
assistant: Alexander Strauß
play: Gerd Lohmeyer
live at the cello: Jost-H. Hecker
dance: Beate Brömse, Beate Dürr, Inka Maiwaldt, Anne Egger-Büssing, Gisela Maria Hailer, Sieglinde Märzke, Günther Maier, Eugenie Nietmann, Henriette Preinhelter, Andrea Stapfer, Rosemarie Weichel,  Hanne Wölfle

Tickets: 20€.- reduced 15€.-;
tickets only per reservation: mfa@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
entrance from 7.30 pm

Butohperformance "0" ( zero) with Stefan Maria Marb
March, 28, 2021, 11 am
munich, Isarinsel-Flauchersteg

Pics: Volker Derlath

The japanese Butohmaster Yoshito Ohno has died

read the Obituary " Create the Body" of Stefan Maria Marb
on Tanznetz

Apres- eine Verwandlung
30 years Butoh of Stefan Maria Marb
exhibition and performance at HAUS 10
june, 28 till, july 14, 2019


Vernissage: june, 28, 7.30 pm
Butohperformances: june, 29, 9.45 pm
:july , 14 at 6.30 pm


photography: Stefan Hagen and Volker Derlath
video: Sabine Scharf
sculpture: Andreas Kuhnlein
Butoh Performance: Stefan Maria Marb
Cello live : Jost-H. Hecker

Kulturwerkstatt HAUS 10
Kloster Fürstenfeld 10b
82256 Fürstenfeldbruck

times:
Fr 16 - 18 Uhr
Sa, So 10 - 18 Uhr

 Stefan Maria Marb is a member of Tanztendenz München. With friendly support of the Bezirk Oberbayern.

Yamabushi Resurrection- a reconstruction
Stefan Maria Marb
April, 12 and 13, 8 pm
at Tanztendenz München

Trying to die, I started to dance-
So, today is the day I will meet the tiger. ( Ko Murobushi)




free entrance, donations welcome

Fotos: Aleksandra Kwasnik

Yamabushi Resurrection is friendly supported by  the the cultural office of the bavarian capital munich. Stefan Maria Marb is a member of Tanztendenz München

Butohatelier 2019- The Holy Game
Performances: april, 5 and 6 , 5 pm
at Tanztendenz München

Game- Child- Dance- Butoh

Choreography: Stefan Maria Marb
Performance: Beate Brömse, Marcela Damico, Anne Egger- Büssing, Monika Eibl, Frauke Gerbig, Sieglinde Maerzke,
Günther Maier, Eugenie Nietmann,  Katharina Rossmann,
Julia Scholbeck,  Maria Thomaser, Rosemarie Weichel,  Hanne Wölfle
Live Music: Ardhi Engl

free entrance