Butoh dance and voice: Kea Tonetti
The Japanese word Mono<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n The performance was presented at: Kulturraum Rosenhof Festival, Tegernau \u2013 GER (2019); Festival Sommerwerft, Frankfurt (2019); Amsterdam Butoh Festival, Munganga Theater (2020); Festival \u201cLe Voci dell\u2019Anima\u201d, Rimini (2021), where it received the organization\u2019s award assigned by the artistic direction with the following motivation: \u201cA 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n