Butoh performance directed by Joan Laage (Kogut Butoh)
Butoh dance: Joan Laage, Kea Tonetti
original music by: Michael Shannon and Joey Largent
Rivers Running Red is a new duet that pays homage to the female body and menstruation. The performance is greatly inspired by an article exposing the practice in certain traditional societies of sending women off to the mountains to remain in huts and, all too often not surviving the harsh conditions, fueled by the belief that women are unclean while menstruating. The piece is also a reflection on this monthly cycle being celebrated as a sacred passage in other cultures.
Rivers Running Red was presented at Alma Rosè – Artepassante space, in Milan in 2020.
Photos by Sara Meliti