yep, yesterday my best friend invited me to this special event. this was really something. I mean, I wasn't ready for that. for this weird experience.
Butoh is the collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement inspired by the Ankoku-Butoh movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion, with or without an audience. There is no set style, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all. Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance legends Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.
all in all I'm glad I had the chance to see our artists performing the dance. it was a bit of everything: mysticism, angst, psychodrama, sexuality, the sense of unpredictable, chaos, intesity. maybe it was just us. having the sense of chaos and psychotic. but it was kinda beautiful. in a different way.
oh, but the last scene was abusrd. someone brought a rabbit and a rooster on the stage (it wasn't really a stage, they were performing their dance in front of us on the floor in a very small area). we laughed, of course. we didn't get the subtext of this appearance. the rabbit was just sitting still but the rooster walked rounds and rounds as trainned. I don't like these birds, I'm afraid of them.
photo: Kanae Terachi
here's an interesting article
photo: Laurent Ziegler (his blog here)
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