CompagniaKha

Dance and voice – Kea Tonetti

 Live-music – Tivitavi

Duration – 60’

Bluebird

there’s a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I’m too tough for him,

I say, stay in there, I’m not going

to let anybody see you…    ( C.Bukowsky )

A journey within, where the body and the soul undress themselves, passing through the layers of personality that veil the memory. Azul, forgetting his origin, passes trough the crisis and encounters suffering, anger, delusion, desire, pleasure and attachment, revealing the wounds of the unloved child. He searches for a suit and a body with which to identify, tests different faces, from the man hungry for power to the innocent child, but never finds peace, because he really wants to show himself for what he is. But can a soul appear naked in the centre of the circus of the world, without any compromise and without the risk of vanishing himself? To show the stark truth of existence can make you loose all masks, perhaps even the ones necessary to live: “I’m not going to let anybody see you,” says Bukowsky. The azure bird that lives in the shining emptiness of my heart is free and wishes to sing, fly and dance, but I’m often afraid to meet him, to love him and release him in flight. The song of Azul is irresistible! It is a canopy that is opened up to the sky, to which you return to see through the amazed and pure eyes of a child; it is a rebirth to a new breath, beyond all barriers that would hide its essence. Azul is as immaterial and transparent as the sky, as receptive and clear as water, it is the shining emptiness that permeates reality. Is it a man or a woman? It is androgynous, light and shadow, sun and moon, left and right brain, strength and fragility, harmony and chaos. Azul is the path to the infinite, where the real becomes imaginary and dream, the other side of the mirror. Sound and movement vanish, drown, fade away in him/her, like a bird in the sky, and the creative act becomes spontaneous, natural, effortless and free. Azul dances the divine play of creation; freedom and joy are his/her own nature, a revival to an irresistible deep call to the beauty of his/her soul, to the divine essence.

Freely inspired by the arcane XV Le Diable and XX “Le Jugement” of Marseille Tarots and to Charles Bukowski’s poem, “BlueBird”.

Presented at various theatres and festivals: Kulturraum Rosenhof Festival 2013, Tegernau, Germany; Jurányi Art Incubator Haouse, Budapest, Hungary, 2014;  One Theatre,  Krasnodar, Russia;  Evolutive dance festival Behind the movement and  Brotfabrik ,Berlin 2014,  Brady Arts Centre, London, 2014;  Un Teatro Centro Cultural in Mexico City, 2014;  Festival Grandezza Naturale, Oggiono, Lecco 2015;  Moving Bodies Butoh Festival, Bologna, 2015; Festival Solliloquios y dialogos bailado, Teatro Los Tailleres de Coyacan, in Mexico City, 2016;  In Butoh  event, Lyon, 2016;  Espai30, Barcellona, Spain, 2016.