one-month Body Weather intensive

rare opportunity: a one‑month Body Weather Intensive led by three seminal figures of the practice — Oguri, Christine Quoiraud, and Andrés Corchero — at Larret en Mouvements (Dordogne, France).

This immersive 2026 program focuses on the transmission and exploration of MB training (Muscle‑Bone / Mind‑Body), developed within Min Tanaka’s original Maï‑Juku company in the 1980s.
It is the first gathering of this scale since 1990, offering a unique chance to engage directly with members of the original Maï‑Juku lineage.

Program Structure

Introductory Workshop
15–19 June 2026

  • Open to up to 20 participants, including beginners.

3‑Week Laboratory
21 June–12 July 2026

  • Focused on MB transmission, experimentation, and performance-making.

  • Open to a small group of dancers and movement practitioners with prior MB experience (who will also participate in the workshop).

The laboratory will combine MB as the central axis of training with complementary Body Weather practices: bisoku (micro/macro slow movement), image-based work, outdoor exploration, somatic sensitivity, and body-editing workouts.

The laboratory is not only to deep into how to improve to do training and leader, but offers also to the participants the possibility of exploring the bridge in between the training and the creation. Through different exercices we will develope creativity in order to find each one’s method to explore and apply the creation for live performance

More information on the program, Body Weather history, and the teaching team can be found below.

Dates & Fees

  • Workshop (5 days + 6 nights): 320 € pedagogy + 300 € accommodation & meals = 620 €

  • Laboratory (3 weeks): 1000 € pedagogy + 660 € accommodation & meals = 1660 €

  • Full month (4 weeks): 2280 € — early bird 2100 €

Early bird deadline for the first 4 registrations: 15 October 2025 (2,100 € instead of 2,280 €)

How to Join

Please send a short motivation statement and a summary of your experience to: bodyweather2026@gmail.com

In the meantime, don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions — we’ll be happy to answer!

More info:
Website: www.larret.org/body-weather-workshop-and-laboratory-mb-transmission 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1112934714272167

Warmly,
Christine Quoiraud & Asaf Bachrach

PROGRAM DETAILS

This one-month Body Weather intensive brings together three foundational figures of the practice—Oguri, Andrés Corchero, and Christine Quoiraud—for a rare international gathering focused on the transmission and exploration of MB training (Muscle-Bone / Mind-Body / Movement and Brain). Rooted in the original research of Min Tanaka’s Body Weather Laboratory in Japan. MB practice is a rigorous, nuanced training that awakens the sensorial intelligence of the body through dynamic physicality, attention, rhythm, endurance and  flexibility. This intensive is especially intended for dancers and movement practitioners who wish to engage deeply with MB and integrate it into their own practice, and possible teaching, experimentation, or performance practices. 

The structure of this 2026 project includes a one-week workshop, open to a wider group (up to 20 participants, open also for beginners), followed by a three-week laboratory  dedicated to transmission, experimentation, and performance-making.  The three weeks laboratory is open to a small group of dancers who already have experience with MB training and who will also take part in the preceding workshop. While MB will serve as the central axis of practice and research, the lab will also explore other key dimensions of Body Weather—including bisoku (micro-macro, small and slow movement), image-based work, sensitivity exercises, outdoor exploration, and body editing workouts. These elements will feed into performance research, with potential opportunities for informal sharings or site-responsive interventions. The last similar gathering of body weather dancers of this generation took place in 1990. It lasted one month and so this is a unique/rare opportunity to experience again such an immersive format with dancers of the original Maï Juku dance company. This month-long process offers a rare and fertile ground for those wishing to carry forward the Body Weather tradition with depth, clarity, and renewed perspective. 

The laboratory will draw from original notes taken during the 1985 Body Weather Intensive in Tokyo, as well as from the ongoing research and embodied pedagogies of the three facilitators. Each brings a distinct and evolving perspective to Body Weather, shaped by-decades of experience across performance, improvisation, and somatic investigation. Together, they will offer contemporary extensions and interpretations of MB, encouraging participants to engage critically with the material and contribute to its living lineage.

Bios

Andrés Corchero, dancer.

Born in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) in 1957. Living in Catalonia since 1962, Andrés Corchero is a passionate and tireless explorer of the languages of the body and dance. Honesty, risk and sensitivity are some of the qualities of his work. His performances explore intimacy, with elegance and emotion. In 1985, he discovered Butoh dance. He went to Tokyo where he studied and worked with Kazuo Ohno and Min Tanaka, two world-renowned masters. From 1986 to 1995, he danced with Maï-Juku, the dance company directed by Min Tanaka. For more than thirty-five years, he has alternated stage creation, teaching and pedagogy. He worked, among others, with poets like Feliu Formosa and Antonio Gamoneda. With Agustí Fernández and Joan Saura, two important figures in the world of musical improvisation. With singers like Miguel Poveda and Silvia Pérez Cruz and with the choreographers Rosa Muñoz, with whom he founded the Raravis company. He also worked with María Muñoz and Pep Ramis from Mal Pelo, Angels Margarit, Hisako Horikawa, Christine Quoiraud and Oguri. From 2005 to 2023 he was a professor at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona.

Oguri, dancer and choreographer.

Native of Japan, Oguri began dancing after meeting Butoh founder Hijikata Tatsumi. In 1985, he joined Min Tanaka’s company Maï‑Juku and participated in the creation of Body Weather Farm, training through organic farming and environmental practice. He performed solo in Tokyo’s avant‑garde scene and designed lighting for Min Tanaka’s choreographies. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1991, he has shared Body Weather Laboratory with Roxanne Steinberg, and for over 30 years has created, taught, and produced dance and multimedia works in theaters and site‑specific venues worldwide. His practice explores the relationship of body and environment, often in collaboration with musicians, sculptors, painters, and poets. Oguri has received numerous awards and grants, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, The Getty Center, Japan Foundation, and as a USA Doris Duke Fellow (2018).

Christine Quoiraud, dancer, performer, and teacher.

She joined Maï‑Juku, Min Tanaka’s international company in Japan, from 1985 to 1990, and has practiced Body Weather since 1981, collaborating with artists such as Katerina Bakatsaki, Oguri, Tess de Quincey, Andres Corchero, and Sherwood Chen. Back in France in 1990, she developed site‑specific works and projects like Corps/Paysage (1995‑2000), exploring walking as the foundation of dance. She has led Walking and Dance projects worldwide, creating improvisations in public spaces (Paris Quartier d’Été, Antipodes/Brest, Dansem/Marseille, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Mexico). Her research has been supported by the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs (AFAA) and multiple grants from the CND, including the 2018 Dance Research and Heritage Grant and the 2022 Body Weather on the Paths of Improvisation. Her work combines poetic and political transmission, activating archives, oral histories, and improvisation practices.