Butoh dance and voice: Kea Tonetti
live music: Tivitavi
duration time: 60’ or 30’ (shorter version)
The Japanese word Mono encompasses multiple meanings: thing, matter, person, Spirit, God. To understand the hidden meaning of the word we have to embrace the animist culture, which recognizes the spirit in everything, its energy, its memory, but also a specific divine entity. A dance that empties itself, where the dancer floats like a spirit, in a home-like place, allowing herself to be permeated by the memories and emotions generated by the encounter with objects, then letting forms vanish in the flow of the game of life.
A music made of voids and layers of sound, which draw the performance into the realm of dreams, floating in another space-time where Spirits and archetypes can manifest: like a catwoman in the moonlight, the Amabie, a magical creature with the power to ward off epidemics, an old woman eaten by ants, a universal flower, the ancient wisdom of the Earth and of life, eternal and ever-changing.
The performance was presented at: Kulturraum Rosenhof Festival, Tegernau – GER (2019); Festival Sommerwerft, Frankfurt (2019); Amsterdam Butoh Festival, Munganga Theater (2020); Festival “Le Voci dell’Anima”, Rimini (2021), where it received the organization’s award assigned by the artistic direction with the following motivation: “A solo that retraces the stages of life, a song to longevity that follows the sounds of the instruments and blossoms like an oriental flower. The artist controls every movement and carefully highlights the process of lightening the soul.”
Photos by Sara Meliti, Danilo Di Roma, Tivitavi