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Daisuke Yoshimoto Fri-Sat 7–8 December, 7pm Na Grobli Studio Tickets:15 PLN If you are a doctor of rich experience, I would like to be a patient of rich experience. From Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky I am a patient infected with a mysterious germ, Butoh. Kyoukatabira of the Body is woven from the threads of truth, the grotesque, ruin, glory and misery, stupidity, dignity of the body, clumsiness, desire, beauty, falsity, the unknown, ambition, darkness, bacteria, Eros, the sacred and the profane, absurdity, graceful cruelty, 13 burials of Daisuke in 2012, delusion, an idiot, running, frenzy, tension, the ill dancer duchess, betrayal etc. When the diagnosis changes, and the heart and body wither, let’s take a walk inside a coffin. Kyoukatabira is a white kimono made from hemp or cotton in which a dead person is laid out in Buddism.  Butoh invites the audience to use their hearts as a mirror. The extremely slow movement makes them reach deeply into their hearts, does not let them stop at the surface. Butoh does not express specific feelings or concepts, nor is it meditation. When the performance ends, the audience experiences silence, peace of heart and beauty. I hope my Butoh to be a tool that symbolizes and inherits the accumulated human energy. I hope that though my dancing I can express the flow of time. I want to face myself first rather than a work, to talk with my heart to my body. I dance a dance of the extremely personal ego, I dance the flow of time that can only be a fragment that has been woven for over 30 years. COSTUMES: Daisuke Yoshimoto SET-DESIGNER (CALLIGRPHY): Kenryo Hara |