Embodying the Cosmos: A Butoh Workshop for Learning Astroparticle Physics through Movement and Climate Inquiry

Abstract (English)

This workshop invites participants into a grounded, multisensory learning experience where scientific insight meets embodied knowledge. Inspired by Indigenous and relational worldviews and Zen practice, the session explores how astroparticle physics and climate modeling can be taught through Butoh—a dance form that honors slowness, transformation, and non-linear time.
Throughout, participants engage scientific ideas through bodily practice, collective experimentation, and reflection. Framed by Zen philosophy and in resonance with Indigenous knowledge systems that see the body, land, and cosmos as interconnected, this workshop honors diverse ways of knowing while foregrounding artistic inquiry as a tool of education.
The workshop is open to scholars, artists, scientists, and anyone curious about learning through the body. The goal is not performance but experiential pedagogy: to ask how knowledge can move through us rather than be extracted or consumed. Participants will leave with an expanded understanding of how embodied art can serve as a method of both inquiry and expression in scientific and anthropological fields.