Utsushi – Tra due specchi
direzione, coreografia e ideazione Ushio Amagatsu
con la collaborazione di Semimaru
musiche Yas-Kaz, Yoichiro Yoshikawa
danzatori
Sho Takeuchi, Akihito Ichihara, Ichiro Hasegawa, Dai Matsuoka, Norihito Ishii, Shunsuke Momoki
direttore di scena Keiji Morita
luci Satoru Suzuki
suono Akira Aikawa
si ringraziano l’Ambasciata del Giappone in Italia
e la Fondazione Italia Giappone
con il sostegno dell’Agenzia per gli Affari Culturali del Governo giapponese, 2016
A second-generation heir in the Butoh tradition of Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, Ushio Amagatsu has emancipated the genre’s furious iconoclastic nature, deeply ingrained in post-Hiroshima Japan, making it more universal. With his all-male dance company, founded in 1975, he has distilled its forms in dances of rarefied beauty, untainted by time. From that imagination, incarnated in shaved heads, powdered bodies and sinuous movements, he offers the Ravenna audience an intense retrospective of his work, from his first creation, Kinkan Shonen (1978) to Toki (2005). Amagatsu weaves the new plot for Utsushi without a chronological order, but rather as an ancient ritual where, in just over an hour, the viewer’s gaze is invited to become one with the hypnotic movements of his performers.
