CompagniaKha

Dance and voice – Kea Tonetti

Live music – Tivitavi

Papercraft hat – Elena Borghi

Duration: 60’

Extremely emotional state of wonder, beaming white source of heat, white-hot, Arctic white, the last frontier of civilization, where Earth has no bounds and man is so small before Nature. This pure white is violated, its lymph extracted by force, the sea shouts, the ice cracks, wild nature rebels to this bitter destiny made of petrol and lead. Covered by a cape of newspapers, burdened with memories and impressions, human suffering and attachments: the fear of vanishing, of death, anger, conflict, lust for power; overwhelmed by a black vision that envelops her, the White Goddess reveals herself, her hair bristling, her eyes veiled with tears – my skin gets goose bumps and a shiver runs down my spine. When she comes out, she can suddenly turn into a snake, an owl, a wolf, a tiger, a siren or a revolting hag, as terrible as the melting of the ice and the upheaval of life on the planet. White-hot is also strong compassion for human tears, for all wounded children that still quarrel, making war with each other, because in the depths of their hearts, they were never seen or loved. They are children to lull and to reassure: Paradise is here and now, and it can be for everyone on the Earth.

White Lady of life and death,

White whale and mother of all things,

are you telling us about the black oil obscured age?

Shrouded in your luminous silence,

Being is suspended in the empty whiteness of dawn, Free to act.

( Kea )

Presented at the Pontedera Butoh Festival 2015,Spazio Nu, Italy;  at the event Behind the Movement, Loophole in Berlin, at the Stems Festival Migratorio des Artes 2016 in Barcellona, Spain; in the Jurányi Art Incubator Haouse, Budapest, Hungary; in the Teatr Novyy Balet, Moscow and in the One Theater, Krasnodar, Russia, 2016.

Video of the two first short versions of the performance.