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BLACKNESS - sequence II

dance structure

Phot. TO-EN, ©TO-EN Butoh Company 2016

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.

Blackness sucks like a black hole.

Annihilates but widens and expands.

Attracts, absorbs, pushes.

Phot. Natalia Miedziak - Skonieczna, ©TO-EN Butoh Company 2018

Concept and performance
TO-EN

Stage and light design
TO-EN

Costume
oluhi

Sound
Krzysztof Pajka

Lighting producer
Przemysław Kalemba

The BLACKNESS project is implemented in the form of sequences or scenes. Each sequence is a setting of landscapes which create a poetic structure within simple and suggestive images. These sequences, apparently separate, will lead to the final scene - a performance.

29.01.2016, Manhattan Gallery (Lodz, Poland) - Blackness - sequence I

9.12.2016, 2 Windows Theatre / Shakespeare Theatre (Gdansk, Poland) - Blackness - sequence II

8.4.2018, KLAMRA" Fstival, (Torun, Poland) - Blackness - sequence II // vol.2.

INVITED ARTISTS

oluhi
oluhi.tumblr.com

Krzysztof Pajka
musician, sound artist, man of many talents; participant of the musical campaign "Pepsi Faza" – winner for the Best Musical Composition. His work has been presented in the Polish Radio – Radiostacja, Machina magazine and TV VIVA Poland. Pajka has actively work within "Sopocka Scena Off de BICZ" (Sopot, Poland) as an author and life music performer for stage performances. He has participated in the project "POLIFONIA" (book, music and film) as well as in many happening concerts and musical activities as a member of a band called "Plac zabaw- Czemuś". Since 2010 Pajka continuously collaborates with TO-EN Butoh Company.

Slideshow by Natalia Miedziak - LINK...

Heartfelt thanks to Fredrik Wretman.

The project was supported by the Pomorskie Voivodeship.

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