“My body is the battlefield where logic surrenders to the chaotic beauty of emotion”

Baring Creation in the Prison of the Body

Pringle was my first cry, the first time I let butoh and clown meet without a safety net. I was not looking for a soft blend, but for the clash, the short-circuit between two languages that inhabit opposite poles of expression.

This “first fusion experiment” was conceived as a wild leap between the contained, visceral presence of butoh and the vulnerable immediacy of clown. The shift of presence in Pringle was a statement, a way of interrogating the body’s own communication with the audience, of breaking expectations.

Human identity stands as a central axis. Pringle plays with the ambiguity of masks, which hide us or reveal us. With the fragility of the borders between prison and freedom.

In life there are so many small deaths, so many necessary divestments to carry on; Pringle is perhaps a metaphor for that constant search for transcendence, for the need to break forms in order to find a purer essence. Remembering that in the end we are only a body.

This first encounter between butoh and clown laid the foundations for later explorations. In Pringle the seed of what would later find its form in the scenes of Pinza was already beating. It was the first stroke of a path where the vulnerability of clown meets the viscerality of butoh.

“this piece is born from the need to investigate a fusion that, for me, was inevitable.”

GALLERY

ARTISTIC CREDITS

· Classification: Butoh / Clown
· Creation: 2011
· Duration: 9 min
· Age rating: All audiences
· Direction, Choreography and performance: Matilde J Ciria
· Lighting design: Matilde J Ciria
· Music editing: Matilde J Ciria (Ennio Morricone)