Butoh dance: Kea Tonetti
acousmatic music: Rodolphe Collange
costume: Ben Doukourè
Our DNA contains the memory of our ancestors, who in ancient cultures may be humans, but also trees, stones, animals, manifestations of nature with their emotions, ancient archetypes, which speak to the unconscious of ancestral memories related to the Earth and to the Universe. Everything is frequency. The universe is empty space for more than 99.999%. Every physical thing has a lot of empty space within it, in which there is intelligence and frequency. Oblivious to being part of this sacred dance, man finds himself in a desolate land, where disease, fear, hate, anger, greed, cruelty, exploitation, division, ignorance, demons manifest themselves. The imprisoned soul forgets its universal nature and its origin. The living soul, reuniting with the light source, returns to the empty body and the empty space of the heart, the place from which everything emerges and to which everything returns; where creating is a spontaneous and natural game, where the being expands embracing wonderfully varied forms, and blesses its own life on earth, unique and unrepeatable.
The performance was created to the music of Terre Rare – Mémoire Des Sols by Rodolphe Collange and presented at the En Chair et en Son Festival in Paris in 2021.
Photos by Fabrice Pairault and Jean Marie Gourreau.