The bridge between sensation and image is impossible to explain. But possible to live.

Matilde

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One of the pillars of butoh is deep sensitivity — it is necessary to practice and go deep into every sensitive layer of the body. This sensitivity must be matched, at the same level, by a deep work of imagination: the ability to connect the invisible with the tangible, so that from that union a visible manifestation of mystery arises, in the form of dance.

Through the dialogue between the imaginary and the sensations, the structures of observation of the dance can be refined. Through these structures we give the person dancing the position of witness to the dance. From this position the ego influences the result only lightly, minimizing the control it has over it.

This work helps us depersonalize the dance in order to reach contents that are unreachable for the person. The imaginary, subtle and grotesque, helps us uproot sensation from the experience of it, so that its meaning transcends interpretation itself.

To change the subject of the dance’s action: from ‘this happens to me’ to ‘this happens in my body, through me’.

what we’ll work on

• Stimulation of the sensitive body in its different layers
• Training of sensational memory
• Limits of sensitivity: the subtle and the grotesque
• Poetic verbal imaginary
• Bridges between sensation and imagination.
• Senso-movement
• Senso-image
• Ego as witness.

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