(from HP : www.motimarubutohdance.com)
Shirokurochan
(premier in Venezia Biennale 2010)
This performance is conceived as a myth with the wish that its universal theme can be adapted to the different cultures and believes. The idea and the title in Japanese is influenced by a Japanese Comics titled "Tekkonkinkreet".
Like in Taoism conception of Ying and Yang, the two bodies on the stage are creatures that represent the two contradicted elements of the Universe: Good and Evil, woman and man, angel and devil. Wishing that in their distance (間) there will be always the balance, the difference, coexisting in the infinity of love.
Description of the scenes
Scene 1 (the angel)
The costume and the technique is the mixture of the West and the East. The big rose come from the classical romanticism of Italian culture. But the way to place this flower in the space come from the concept of Ikebana, Japanese flower arrangement which is not to show only the flower, but to create the space itself by placing flower.
Genesis : The movements and postures come from the dancer's experience of a car accident that put her in the risk of death. In that moment she realized that the body, which is apparently motionless, is a container of memory, which expands and shrinks itself by virtue of rhythm made of broken discontinuous moments. And she also found that moving without harmonic rhythm make the space around bigger.
Scene 2 (the devil)
The costume and the idea of technique are influenced by Balinese traditional dance combined with Japanese tradition. But in the same time, it includes some contemporary elements(the costume of the head, animation dance) with the wish to represent not only particular cultures but wider ones.
Genesis : The inspiration come from the experience of the dancer to see different situations of humans and animals living on the edge of the society in developed and undeveloped countries. In any history, there have been always existences who have lost or discriminated, such as animals, some tribes or countries... considered as devils. Also body itself has already an angel and a devil inside. The dancer realizes and tells the importance to see this "devil" side and respect it, since it used to be one with the "angel" .
Scene 3 (the marriage of the angel and the devil)
At the end the Angel and the Demon become one connected by the power of love.
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Motimaru is a dance company created in Tokyo by Motoya Kondo and Tiziana Longo, two dancers trained at the Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance Studio. They both studied for five years under the direction of Yoshito Ohno, who is himself following the footsteps of the two founders of butoh: Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.
Motimaru aims to grasp the essence of butoh and also have researched about Balinese dance, Noh theater, Modern dance, Sufi dance, to find intersections between the West and the East, the ancient and the modern in a continuous line across cultures rooted in nature.
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