HAIKUs
Seven bodies, seven haikus. A single space, a fragmented time. The stage as a territory where poetry is embodied without need of words.
Neither guide nor sequence. Each butoka makes a unique journey in a shared universe. The Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo is transformed into a blank page where the bodies write, with their dance, visual poems that appear and disappear.
The eye of butoh is the same as that of the haiku: it observes without judging, reveals without explaining. Both seek the essence of each instant, that truth hidden in plain sight.
In this piece created specifically for the Kojoteki II Festival in 2013, seven performers simultaneously dance a haiku, without words or sequential guide. Unlike earlier proposals, here the poems are not recited but transformed into presence, into breath, into pure movement.
The audience builds its own route, leaping freely from one performer to another, weaving connections between the seven worlds that inhabit the scenic space. Each gaze completes the meaning of what happens.
HAIKUS is an encounter with the essential, where dance and poetry breathe together in the same breath, an invitation to contemplate reality with new eyes, open to the mystery of what simply is.
GALLERY
ARTISTIC CREDITS
· Classification: Butoh / Poetry
· Creation: 2013
· Duration: 60 min
· Age rating: All audiences
· Direction: Matilde J Ciria
· Cast: Cristina Sánchez Legido, Rafael de la Fuente, Eva Valle, Laura Katana, Mar Freire, Ester Pedrouzo, María Grandío
· Music editing: Matilde J Ciria
Produced by 3monos