Ko Murobushi †
Danse Butoh (B)

Danse Butoh From the Butoh / to the Butoh Suffocation, illness-transformations, betweenness of pain and pleasure and voice of magic „We are trying to inscribe the history of Butoh in our process. In this process we take a place, we change the place, we are in the middle of experiments. We are becoming, in our collections there are new confrontations, new everyday things. Everyday experiences with their breaks, control of self, transformations, transmissions, and transgressions. What are our attempts relating to? 1) Breath. Breath and its transformations, differences and combinations of breathing „forms“. Freeing a voice from the gorge. 1) Walking. Who walks? Coming from where and going where? Are we able to imagine "walking without feet"? 1) Touch the earth, jump, dance: the terms "tamafuri" and "tamashizume". 1) Movements of the 8. The 8 starts halfways, it stops halfways - no beginning, no end - in the inside there is the outside, on the outside the inside. One and the other cross each other, get mixed up. The Moebius Loop, asymmetrical spirals. 1) Future: future of the animal, of the plants, of the minerals passing. Becoming a corpse, fluid, solid, gas. Learning transmissions and transformations. 1) Improvisations. Form sneaking into the act. An interval, trembling, shifting. Breaking down, all in the same moment. Suffering, vibrations, coagulation, relaxation, convulsions towards humour. Ko Murobushi is one of the most acclaimed Butoh artists of our times. 1959 Butoh was proclaimed by Tatsumi Hijikata, and already in 1968 young Murobushi studied and danced with him. Later on he moved to Paris. Since then his nomadic artistic life has led and still leads him to nearly all continents regularly, India, Brazil, Mexico, Great Britain, back to Japan .... and of course repeatedly to Vienna.