Sunday 19th
Dancing for Yamamba
Butoh Dance Kea Tonetti
Live-music Tivitavi
“Butoh is life that dares to live death” (Masaki Iwana)
In a Noh story, a dancer enters the forest, following the path taken by Buddha, meets and dances for Yamamba, lady of the mountains, seen as a deity, a witch. She can change her appearance at will, transforming herself into a loving mother, a young woman, an old woman or an animal, an archetype of the Mother Goddess, connected to the night, the moon and death as transformation, death that generates life. Death in nature is not something frightening, but sweet, open, soft, gentle, like the red leaves in autumn that offer themselves to the earth to generate life. Mother Earth dances an eternal and wonderful transformation, I dance with her, intoxicated by soma, the drink of immortality, which reproduces endlessly like life itself, which, beyond forms, opens to receive the divine spirit.
Kea Tonetti: Dancer, choreographer and teacher of Butoh and Sensitive Dance®. Since 1979, she trained in classical, contemporary and Theater Dance in Italy, New York and Paris. Since 2000 started a formation in Butoh with several teachers, in Europe and Japan such as: Atsushi Takenouchi, Yoshito Ohno, Seisaku, Yuri Nagaota, Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, Joan Laage, Natsu Nakajima, Masaki Iwana. Besides she has been long practicing Yoga, Shamanism and Tantra. In 2008 she founded, with Tivitavi, Compagniakha, a butoh dance and live music company, which performed in festivals and theaters in Europe, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine. The dance critic Jean Marie Gourreau wrote the article “Une talentueuse danseuse occidentale de butoh” about her on the french dance review Critiphotodanse. Since 30 years she transmits her research in studio and nature sites, with Tivitavi they have a studio Spazio Continuum in Milano.
Tivitavi: Sound and visual artist. Since 1991 he follows different Masters from Yoga to Shamanism and research about voice and mantra tecniques. He research in the sound with Djalu Gurruwiwi (didgeridoo), Mari Boine (Lapland singing), Saynko Namcylak (Tuvan throat-singing) and with Albert Rabenstein sound healing with Tibetan bells. Since 2008 with Kea produces performances of Butoh dance with live acoustic and electronic music.