BUTOH FESTIVAL - Icon in Construction

ICON IN CONSTRUCTION 

Origin. Transmutation. Materialisation. Regression. Rebirth. Decadence. Development. Cycle. Pulse. Revolution.

A dialogue between sound and image, between the moment just before now and the moment just after now.

Josephine Grundy: butoh dance, voice, costume design 

El Pepe Bolívar: electric guitar and effects  

ICON IN CONSTRUCTION is a tryptich that combines different performance languages (essentially butoh dance, sound, and visual art) to convey multiple perspectives or simultaneous narratives around the body and its journey through time and space. We catch glimpses of a woman, or the image of a woman, in different phases. Ghostly, timeless, historical, atemporal, iconic, deconstructed, pure matter in movement. A body, a voice, an instrument that goes beyond its own limitations and challenges the expectations they generate. There is no single pulse, no central tone, no formal register, we are in process, in constant vibration. A body of work that seeks to engage…