Minako Seki belongs to the third generation of Butoh dancers and is widely considered as of one the pioneers of Butoh in Germany. BORDERLESS SPLIT BRAIN Is a research journey into the human consciousness. Split in logical thoughts and illogical associations it penetrates our life like the tides, like a fleeting dream. The production oscillates between dance and theatre, left and right, east and west. It is a piece of struggling dance systems. On one side Japanese Butoh – “expression of the soul” -, on the other the contemporary dance of the western world. We don’t know who will be the winner of this wrestling bout. We only know about the question that is influencing the events: Who am I and how many am I actually? Inspired by a story by Stanislaw Lem where a man’s brain is split into left and right by an accident Minako Seki puts “The duplication” on stage as a dance theatre piece full of images and associations. It’s about perception, illustration, division, left and right, light, shadows, reality and illusion, existence and consciousness. I can’t say that I am or I am doing something. It’s only the left half of my brain. With the second one I have to compromise
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:53:52 +0000