{"id":3135,"date":"2025-09-20T17:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compagniakha.it\/hana-no-inochi-life-of-the-flower\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:37:25","slug":"hana-no-inochi-life-of-the-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compagniakha.it\/en\/hana-no-inochi-life-of-the-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Hana no inochi &#8211; Life of the flower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">CompagniaKha and Jinen Butoh\u2028<br\/>&#13;\nButoh dance and live music improvisation<br\/>&#13;\nButoh dance: Atsushi Takenouchi and Kea Tonetti<br\/>&#13;\nlive music: Hiroko Komiya and Tivitavi<\/p>\n\n<p>Discovering the essence of the flower\u2019s life within yourself, this is Butoh. Zeami and Kan\u2019ami wrote about the essence of the flower in <br\/>Kadensho, a 14th-century treatise on Noh Theater. Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno, founders of Butoh dance with Tatsumi Hijikata, spoke deeply and repeatedly about the spirit of the flower. The flower is Beauty and, at the same time, it is transience and frailty, seen not as a symbol of exteriority, but as an intuition of the existence of an ineffable world, impossible to define, yet real.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>\u201cTo connect our life with the life of flowers. We still are on our way. Embrace this flower, until the end of our life. Again and again\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Atsushi Takenouchi<\/p>\n\n<p>The performance was presented at Spazio Tadini in Milan, in 2014.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/compagniakha.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/10540404_10153013054964059_950021487107924489_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-id=\"1059\" src=\"https:\/\/compagniakha.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/10540404_10153013054964059_950021487107924489_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compagniakha.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/10540404_10153013054964059_950021487107924489_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/compagniakha.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/10540404_10153013054964059_950021487107924489_n-300x200.jpg 300w, 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