Creation july 2012

UN COUP DE DON

(provisional title)

Artistic direction Carlotta Ikeda.
Choreography Ko Murobushi.
Set design and artistic advice Stephane Verite.

I am once more seized by a desire to discuss what lies deep behind Butoh dance.
Or rather, I want to discuss the impossibility of speaking, of the impossible experience. Discuss what it is that, at the very moment when I think, erodes my thought at its source, disintegrates it.
Discuss this nothingness which is my very foundation, which is still the source of my life.
Countless deaths, infinite time.
We are like that bank clerk transformed into shadow at Hiroshima.
We all live like that.
If we could see our bodies like that, there would be no need to dance.

Ko Murobushi