BUTOH FESTIVAL - Ecate / Black Fern

ECATE - Eights steps into eternity

When a loved one crosses life's threshold, the whole world seems new. How is it possible to turn an experience of mourning into a dance? "Ecate" is a dance with which Damiano Fina remembers his mother Maria Novella, who passed away prematurely in 2021. The recording of the original performance took place at the spaces of Villa Godi Malinverni, a Palladian project from 1542. In evoking memories of the close bond connecting him with his mother, Damiano Fina wore her wedding dress.

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With: Damiano Fina. Italian artist and writer who explores the sacred through the body, his FÜYA method and philosophical research. A pedagogical approach to dance and its spiritual origins since the Pleistocene.  

Dancing eternity and accessing the sacred 

Since 2004 her artistic research has been influenced by alchemy, ancient rituals of Classical Greece, the teachings of Zen master Dogen, butoh…