Prof. Toshiharu Kasai [Japanese]
(Old references: as of 2017)

Butoh and workshops in Sapporo, Japan

[Itto butoh workshops]

Butoh dancer Itto Morita : Toshi Kasai

*Kasai's Butoh Dance Method and other Butoh related papers are available.
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Toshiharu KASAI - Emeritus Professor (2020)

Ex- Professor of Department of Clinical Psychology,
Faculty of Humanities, Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan


Certified Dance Therapist and Vice President
of Japan Dance Therapy Association.
Toshiharu Kasai: Dance therapist certified by Japan Dance Therapy Association and Vice President, teaching Dance Therapy and Psychological Methodology as Professor at Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan, while giving dance therapy programs at mental clinics.
Kasai has been performing as a Butoh dancer around the world since 1990s as Itto Morita of Butoh group "GooSayTen" .




Dance Therapy Workshops in Europe

( for reference : after 2009 )

ECArTE - European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education has been held every 2 years. Kasai has carried out Expeiential Workshops for the professional therapists of dance therapy, art therapy, drama therapy, and music therapy since 2009.

ECArTE 2017 in Krakow, Poland

Body Learning Practises in Dance Movement Psychotherapy
for Highly Body Sensitive People

Workshop Presentation in ECArTE 2017
ECArTE 2015 in Palermo, Italy

Significance of Slow and Small Movements in Japanese Dance Therapy

Workshop Presentation in ECArTE 2015 (PDF)
ECArTE2013 - Paris, France

Three phased dance therapy program for enhanced awareness and reflection

Workshop presentation abstract 2013 (PDF)
ECArTE 2011- Lucca, Italy

Feeling, a subconscious and built-in physical evaluation system, works in Butoh dance method

Workshop presentation abstract 2011 (PDF)
ECArTE 2009 - London, U.K.

Sense of Safety and Security for Creative Works nurtured by Meditative Butoh Dance Movements

Workshop presentation abstract 2009 (PDF)


He stayed in UK in 2009 in order to study dance therapy with Professor Helen Payne of University of Hertfordshire, and instructed Butoh related workshops in UK, Holland, Spain, Latvia, and Estonia. His workshop presentation for ECArTE 2009 in London was "Sense of safety and security for creative works nurtured by meditative Butoh dance movements".


FOR REFERENCE:

Activities in UK in 2009 - 2010

I studied dance/movement psychotherapy in U.K. between 2009 May and 2010 March, with Professor Helen Payne, University of Hertfordshire. It was my one year sabbatical, filled with a variety of studies and discoveries, and meeting a various people there and in other countries, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Latvia, and Estonia.
The following website contents are kept for reference of my activities during this period. If you happen to visit Japan, and are interested in the areas mentioned below, please get in touch with me.

Toshiharu Kasai.

References: 2009 - 2010 in U.K.

  1. Certified Dance Therapist and D/MT Supervisor
    Board member of Japan Dance Therapy Association (JADTA)

  2. Butoh Dancer / Choreographer : as Itto Morita with 20 years Butoh life


  3. Body Learning Therapy based on Butoh Dance Method
    with transition among altered states of consciousness
  4. Originator of a new Qualitative Analysis using Mathematical Analyses
    Relatedness Evaluation Qualitative Analysis for Transcript studies
    For Evidence Based qualitative researches by using such as
    Categorical Regression Analysis,Categorical Discriminant Analysis,
    Categorical "Factor Analysis", and Categorical MDS
    for clinical psychological transcript studies and Science of nursing.

  5. Detection of 9 Social Motivations:
    A Personality test based on "Prisoner's Dilemma" concept
    Individualism/ Cooperation/ Altruism/
    Competition/ Equalitarianism/ Martyrdom/
    Aggression/ Sadomasochism/ Masochism/