Every dancer dances to some music. We butokas dance the music born from the friction between matter and form.

Matilde

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In silent music we learn to hear what the everyday ear ignores — unconscious human music, the heartbeat, the friction. In neural dance we cross the nervous system to its limits, to where impulse becomes spasm and spasm becomes silence. The other music begins where those two workshops end.

There is a music that humans do not make. Neither the organic body nor the nervous system. It is the music of the universe making itself — the friction between matter and form, the vibration where what exists and what ceases to exist constantly brush against each other. It is not heard. It is.

This workshop is the natural end of the impossible path. After passing through the nerve and madness, the body reaches a territory where there is no longer a person to listen nor an instrument to sound. Only the dance happening in the music of the thousand musics. The sound of pulsing existence.

The beginning of something that has no name yet.

what we’ll work on

• Synthesis of the impossible path: what remains after the nerve and madness
• Listening beyond the audible: the music that humans do not make
• The music of matter and of time — the friction between form and the formless
• The music of space: vibration where the existent and the nonexistent touch
• Dancing without listening: being the music
• The other music as a state, not as a technique

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Level note: This workshop is the culmination of the impossible path. It is recommended to have previously worked through silent music and neural dance, or at least to have experience in ni.butoh.

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