CompagniaKha and Monique Arnaud
Utsusemi Kea Tonetti and Monique Arnaud<\/p>\n\n In Japanese, Utsusemi<\/em> is the \u201cempty shell\u201d that the cicada leaves behind after moulting \u2013 a symbol of the transience and impermanence of life, it is \u201cempty reality.\u201d After years of living underground, the cicada mysteriously begins a process of mutation that leads it to emerge from the underground dimension to change its life in the aerial dimension. Its long preparation to come to light is consumed in a handful of days of life, finding in this destiny all the beauty, impermanence, and inevitability of existence. Its slow dance of mutation ends with its emergence from the shell that covers it, which remains empty, a memory of its past life. Utsusemi<\/em> is to change in a slow, continuous metamorphosis, revealing the integument that protects and preserves empty reality. Birth \u2013 hatching \u2013 is a magic moment in which life manifests itself in the present moment and in all its beauty; every moment becoming an opportunity to enjoy eternity.<\/p>\n\n The performance was subsequently presented, in a solo Butoh dance version, at the \u201cLa voce del corpo\u201d Festival in Osnago in 2013.
\n<\/p>\n\n Utsusemi, with Kea Tonetti and Noh Theater Master Monique Arnaud, accompanied by live music of Tivitavi and Ogam Fabio Malizia, was presented at Centro Alik Cavaliere in Milan in 2012.<\/p>\n\n Video from\u00a0the Festival La voce del corpo<\/em>, Osnago, Butoh version.<\/p>\n\n