How Far? featuring Fire Butoh 3

Sunday, August 31
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8pm
reservations are recommended

Question:
Where I come from, people often greet one another, “How Far?” instead of “Hello.” This greeting implies that one is always traveling, always struggling towards a greater actualization of her experience. It is also believed that the nature of experience can be synesthetic and extrasensory. It is possible to taste sights, hear feelings, and see sounds. By some accounts, 1 in 200 persons is synesthetic. How far can this condition go towards dancing the dancer?

Hypothesis:
Ankoku-butoh, the black stamping dance, enables a reunion with the Primitive-Afrikan-self through a dance of internal transformation. Even farther then, should the evolution of body-language advance the dancer through experiences of synesthesia.

Experiment:
Eveleena Dann
Laura Russello
Yoshiko Nakayama
Michael Freeman

Butoh dancers interact with sound and video installations in which ordered sequences provoke the emergence of different personalities.

Eseohe Arhebamen
Solo, “Fire Butoh 3”. Third installment in the Series. Fire as clarity and sight. Traditional Nigerian dances: Swange, Atilogun, Ekombi.

Materials:
EdoHeart is grateful for sound, visuals and other materials by the following:
Transilience Productions
Michigan Peaceworks
Seth Yamasaki
Firewalker Productions
Phonomena
“Lexi” Osazuwa (University of Benin- Edo State, Nigeria)
Holly Daggers / Forward Motion Theater

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