Ariadone Company
ZARATHOUSTRA variations
In the early 80’s Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Murobusci made their reading of Buto dance known in Europe with the show ‘Zarathoustra’.
Twentyfive years later a lot has changed. Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Murobusci rewrote the opera getting inspired by the memory of the show, adding new elements and using dancers from different origin, with the material offered from everyone’s identity. Those who had the occasion to appreciate Zarathoustra, will be able to follow in ‘Zarathoustra – Variations’ the artistic journey of this extraordinary artist and her group.
The Butho dance, gave to the western contemporary dance the opportunity to find out new choreographic languages. Zarathoustra Variations offers to the audience the rare occasion to verify how Butho dance is evolving.
Carlotta Ikeda’s way to work hasn’t changed; her continuous research produced a work able to reveal new messages.
Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Murobusci sign together the choreographies of this work.
ZARATHOUSTRA
The first show provoked a shock.
Born 40 years ago in Japane, BUTO – THE DANCE OF THE DARKNESS - in opposition both with the classical and the modern dance as well as with the Japan’s traditional artistic forms – the NO and the KABUKI -, it proposed itself as the anti-dance. Rised after a politcal, economic and socio-cultural cataclysm, the one of the first Japan’s rout in its plurimillenary history, the DANCE OF THE DARKNESS anticipated in its own way the rising up of the young japaneses against the excesses of the western influence, above all the american one.
This social earthquake revelead a deep desperation. There weren’t ups and downs anymore.
Just the loneliness and the sense of vanity that was implicit in the material properties’ accumulation.
It’s then that men and women went to search for their originis in the darkness of the time’s dawn, as it’s the way of shamans, these great masters of ecstasy who can be found in Siberia, Asia, North America or Africa. And as in the shamans’ practices, rather than the body it’s the soul to undertake celestial ascensions or infernal descents. This will to accede to the deepest parts of the body, suffocated from several social and aesthetic layers, evokes also LAUTRÉAMONT and SADE, ARTAUD and GENET in their research of the abysses.
Genre: buto
Music: original
The photographs are © Laurencine LOT
