butoh Dance Kea Tonetti
live music by Tivitavi
duration 50′ – 30′ (short version)
“Butoh is life that dares to live death”
Masaki Iwana
In a Noh tale, a dancer enters the forest, following the Buddha’s path, where she meets and dances for the Yamamba, lady of the mountains, seen as a deity, a witch. She can change her appearance at will, transforming into a loving mother, a young woman, an old woman, or an animal; an archetype of the Mother Goddess, connected to the night, the moon, and death as transformation, death generating life. Death in nature is not something frightening, but rather sweet, open, soft, gentle, like the red leaves in autumn that offer themselves to the earth, to generate life. Mother Earth dances an eternal and wonderful transformation. I dance with her, intoxicated by soma, the drink of immortality, which reproduces endlessly, like life, which beyond forms, opens endlessly, to receive the divine spirit.