We dance to a music impossible to hear.

Matilde

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Music has been an intrinsic part of our society and culture since time immemorial. It has taken shape as part of our cultural and personal identity — it empowers us and lifts us. But it can also enslave us, anchoring us in its measures and its emotional arcs. Freeing ourselves from that bondage allows a deeper communication with ourselves, and a richer dialogue with music itself, where we can disagree in order to enrich our conversation.

Once we have enriched our relationship with the music made by humans, we can enter the music generated by life. The heart is the most famous one, marking the rhythm that floods the rest of the body. But what is the music of the other organs like? And beyond the beating of organs, subtler musics: the friction of muscles, the crackle of bones, the electricity running through the body.

And when we have the capacity to hear this music, perhaps we can catch the constant music of existence. The rustle of matter forming and disintegrating around us, ceaselessly. The hum of the explosion that gave rise to the universe.

Butoh is moved by the music we humans create and by the music that life generates. We dance to the music that consciousness ignores.

what we’ll work on

• Musical counter-dance: moving with and against the music
• Musics of memory
• Voice and movement as one
• Musics of the body: heart, muscles, bones, electricity
• Musics of silence
• Musical rooms — sound spaces for improvisation

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