Παράσταση Butoh, Καψάλι, Ζείδωρος, Σάββατο 22 Ιουνίου, 10.00 μμ
Butoh Performance, Kapsali, Zeidoros, Saturday 22 June, 10.00 pm
Solos by MASAKI IWANA and MOENO WAKAMATSU from Japan, and group presentation by dancers from Greece, Spain, Germany, and Israel. Butoh dance originates from a radical art movement started in the 1960's in Japan. Today, Βutoh continues to inspire people around the world by α dance in intensified time and space, without fixed form or rules except truthfulness to one's own self in relation to the world.
With the five kanji characters, 'han-gi-tai-to-kan' (grilling, sacrifice, great nature, dance, mirror), Βutoh's founder, Tatsumi Hijikata, encapsulated the importance to dancing of sacrificing our own body and soul and treating nature as our mirror, or teacher. Through these words, he urged that we dance a material entity hidden within our body, transcending society, institutions and norms. Once we perceive our body as a material
entity, morals, dark intentions, desires, concepts of beauty, life and death, violence and eros become like tiny leaves and are swept along by a torrent into a vortex of the immensely truthful nothingness existing within all the blameless origins of the universe. For dancers this nothingness must have intensity. (Masaki Iwana)
