International Butoh Dance Festival 2023 and IKLECTIK present,
Rebellious Bodies: BUTOH ON FILM
Tuesday 31 October 2023 | Doors: 7:30pm - Start: 8pm
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Butoh：Kazuo Ohno etc.
Music：Chiharu MK
「CAVE DANCE」
CAVE DANCE is a newly edited version of Mr O’s Book of the Dead (1973), a film featuring the late butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno and his students, overlaid with newly composed music by Chiharu MK. The film was originally shot in Ohno's hometown in Hokkaido, where Chiharu MK currently lives, by Chiaki Nagano - a documentary filmmaker who collaborated on a trilogy of experimental films with Kazuo Ohno called the Mr O Series. Mr O's Book of the Dead is the third film in the trilogy.
“Book of the Dead” originally referred to a funerary ritual document that was buried with the dead in ancient Egypt as a way of praying for their souls, and contained guidelines for the path to Aaru (paradise) from when the soul leaves the body, as well as instructions on what to say at when receiving their judgement in the afterlife. CAVE DANCE includes a scene reminiscent of an old Japanese custom called "Nobe-okuri", in which relatives and neighbours carry the coffin in a procession to the burial ground after the funeral. In Buddhism, the Sanzu River flows at the border between this world and the next. As Ohno dances mystically through the forest, it is as if he is dancing in a world on the way to the other side. The sound of the chime used is said to dispel evil spirits, and help one reach Paradise. Some of the sounds are processed from field recordings made in Hokkaido.
The music of this work was produced with respect, so that Ohno might hear it all the way from the other side.
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