Trails
Improvisation for butoh body and clarinet
silence
trails of movement
outline of body
blurred
the fragility of space
slowness
Phot. Malgorzata Taraszkiewicz, © TO-EN Butoh Company, 2011
TO-EN's project combines the butoh dance and the music of a clarinettist Marcin Malinowski. The artists meet to seek the subtle links between movement and sound. Body and sound resonate in silence, sometimes motionless. Together they build a pulsating space and fill it. Is this what we see still a movement or just a trail, a blurred image shimmering in a distance?
| Dance | Sound | Costume | Duration |
| TO-EN | Marcin Malinowski |
TO-EN | ca. 20 min |
Premièred at: Pionova Gallery, Gdansk, March 2011. Presented also at Krytyka Polityczna in Warsaw, Poland.
Special thanks to: Olga Scibska
Phot. Malgorzata Taraszkiewicz, © TO-EN Butoh Company, 2011
Marcin Malinowski
Clarinettist, has been bound up with Gdańsk (Poland) since 2006. He is the leader and founder of the Meadow Quartet. The artist draws his inspiration from traditional Jewish music making successful experiments of exploring it at different planes starting from classical music, touching jazz and finally electronic music. The musician also takes part in projects in which sounds are interacting with pictures. Apart from studying at The Academy of Music in Gdańsk Marcin Malinowski has also mastered his skills in the class of prof. Jean-Marc Fessard in Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles.
Phot. Malgorzata Taraszkiewicz, © TO-EN Butoh Company, 2011