Butoh Performance: KAGEBARA

Will Lopes’ creation KAGEBARA is a dramatic Butoh dance performance in which the actor represents and incorporates archetypes that form part of human existence in moments of conflict, protest, warfare and inner revolution that break open when confronted with the inevitability of death. When the social being dies, which layers of chaos, dreams, reason and madness give wings to the free spirit dancing?

The soul lost in the shadow world, the masculine at war, the feminine in revolution, the animal in freedom and the spirit in flight towards eternal light are the main scenes that compose this solo. The piece recounts the archetypal human search for liberation from the dimensions that enslave us and the encounter with our free existence.

KAGEBARA is a piece about times of crisis, when the human soul finds itself lost amidst the shadows but relentlessly seeks the resolution of its conflicts even in the face…