BUTOH FESTIVAL - Cage

Cage

Intimate improvisation between sounds, images and movements.

The concept was created during the Corona-Virus quarantine time. A cage is a limit, physical, psychological, and political, it compresses and fragments our capacities, our possibilities, and our freedom. But, on the other side, in this little tiny space, we can feel complete, because we don’t have distractions. We don’t see anybody, we don’t have to make choices, and this limit gives us safety. There’s a possibility: a chance to see deep inside ourselves, to be confronted with something hidden, that could be revealed only in the little tiny safe place of the cage. It starts a repetition, it becomes a loop, it brings problems and solutions, it evolves in circles, a circle inside a circle, patterns that try to express themselves through physicality and movement. The cage becomes a place for transformations, morphing through natural organic elements, plants, animals, archetypes, female…