Earth Tomes exists to bring people together to celebrate our bodies, our relationships to each other, and our relationship to the Earth. The desire is to ignite a passion for these relationships in the audience. Butoh, in its essential nature, is an enigmatic dance form that highlights the body clinging to life. “When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. “No matter how much we search for it from the outside, there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves,” exclaimed Tatsumi Hijikata in the 1970s. If anything, we have collectively grown more aware of this human condition in these days, and Butoh dancers have now had many years of experience to model this integration.
One night only. 90 minutes
Doors 7pm
Performance 7:30pm
Featuring twelve extraordinary Butoh dancers: Cristal Sabbagh, Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks, Aja Singletary, Helen Lee, Joan Gutiérrez, Corin Wiggins, Keiko Johnson, Elaine Lemieux, Aurora Tabar, Harlan Rosen, Sharkey Zalek, and Joan/Kogut.
Co-directed by Joan/Kogut and Sharkey Zalek.
Live soundscape by Norman W. Long
Composed music by Lee Berwick