BLACKNESS - sequence III
dance structure
Fot. TO-EN
Blackness - the darkest colour
Anticolour
A place so dark, that no shadow can exist.
Absorption of light.
This blackness is black wind and black hair.
This blackness is black maps with stains of black gold.
It is black forest of Aokigahara, overgrowing the solidified lava.
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Blackness sucks like a black hole.
Annihilates but widens and expands.
Attracts, absorbs, pushes.
Phot. Natalia Miedziak - Skonieczna, ©TO-EN Butoh Company 2019
Concept, choreography, dance
TO-EN
Costume
oluhi
Sound
Tautvydas Bajarkevičius (remix), Krzysztof Pajka
Stage design
Maciej Głowacki
Video
TO-EN
The BLACKNESS project is implemented in the form of sequences or scenes. Each sequence is a setting of landscapes based on ecological, natural or human disaster, which create a poetic structure within simple and suggestive images.
Oil - rich deposites, bird's suffering, desire to die, madness - all like a dark passion. Simple images made of black clay, sand and oil.
Phot. Natalia Miedziak - Skonieczna, ©TO-EN Butoh Company 2019
BLACKNESS PROJECT SHOWS:
29.01.2016, Manhattan Gallery (Lodz, Poland) - Blackness - sequence I
2016, exhibition Butoh dance - photography
9.12.2016, 2 Windows Theatre / Shakespeare Theatre (Gdansk, Poland) - Blackness - sequence II
8.4.2018, "KLAMRA" Festival, (Torun, Poland) - Blackness - sequence II // vol.2.
21.7.2019, Oliwa Town Hall of Culture (Gdansk, Poland) - Blackness - sequence III
Phot. Natalia Miedziak - Skonieczna, ©TO-EN Butoh Company 2019
INVITED ARTISTS
oluhi
https://oluhi.tumblr.com
Phot. Natalia Miedziak - Skonieczna, ©TO-EN Butoh Company 2019
Frame from the video, phot. TO-EN, ©TO-EN Butoh Company 2019
Phot. Natalia Miedziak - Skonieczna, ©TO-EN Butoh Company 2019
Read more about the project: WWW
The project was supported by the City of Gdansk within the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdansk.