Compagniakha and Jinen Butoh 

Improvisation of butoh dance

with Atsushi Takenouchi and Kea Tonetti 

live-music by  Hiroko Komiya and Tivitavi 

Between MA and Ma! MA in Japanese language means the space and time perception, it is the interval between two moments, the silence between one sound and another, the pause that enriches the meaning of a frequency. The distance that is created between two things or actions, a moment of suspension, that allows the spirit to emerge, a spiritual time-space where the mind stops, to enter into resonance with what is and is not, what exists and what does not exist. When there is emptiness anything can happen!  When we experience this space-time in the dance and the music we let the emptiness become a perceptible entity, giving shape and form to the invisible. In this eternal and vibrant emptiness, everything transforms continuously, as we learn from Nature, and at the same time, from another point of view, in contact with it nothing changes or moves. In this interval you can experience reality as free from time and space, in the eternal omnipresence of the Here and Now. Through the music and the dance, resonating with the vibrant emptiness that permeates everything, it is possible to dissolve at any moment the Universe in one’s consciousness, and emanate it again in the next instant.

Presented at Spazio Continuum, Milano, 2016.