7 HAIKUS 7 PERFORMANCES
In the context of Lugo’s first butoh and experimental dance festival, Kojoteki, a performance was born that, guided by a child’s voice, immersed the audience in 7 different worlds, each orbiting around a haiku, moving through different spaces of the Provincial Museum of Lugo.
This proposal reveals a facet of the creative work where the conciseness and evocative depth of the haiku become a singular path for the exploration of butoh. Just as the haiku condenses an instant or an image in its brief structure, butoh dance can expand that instant into a real experience that evokes what the haiku awakened in the creator’s soul.
Likewise, the eye needed to write haikus is the same as the one needed to dance butoh. An eye that observes reality without adding an interpretation foreign to what happens. An eye that does not impose itself, but extracts the essence of each instant.
In this performance, the haikus act as semantic and emotional nuclei, guiding the dancers’ movement and the audience’s perception through the various spaces of the museum, creating a dialogue between the poetic word, the dancing body and the environment that hosts them.
Spring moon —
if you only knew,
your cheeks would flush.
(translated from the Spanish)
This road —
no one travels it now
save the twilight.
(translated from the Spanish)
A firefly in flight —
“Look!” I almost said, but
I am alone.
(translated from the Spanish)
A fallen blossom
back to the branch?
No — a butterfly.
(translated from the Galician)
“Steal this,”
the moon seems to say,
“this flowering plum branch!”
(translated from the Galician)
A pity to pick it,
a pity to leave it —
oh, this violet!
(translated from the Galician)
Neither buddhas nor gods
for me —
autumn winds.
(translated from the Spanish)
GALLERY
ARTISTIC CREDITS
· Classification: Butoh / Poetry
· Creation: 2012
· Duration: 60 min
· Age rating: All audiences
· Direction: Matilde J Ciria
· Cast: Cristina Sánchez Legido, Rafael de la Fuente, Iria Otero, Nieves Neira Roca, Mar Freire, Ester Pedrouzo, María Grandío
· Music editing: Matilde J Ciria
Produced by 3monos