Butoh Techno 舞踏 テクノ
Butoh Techno is an international dance and audio visual project formed in 2017 out of a collaboration between Shepherds of Cats, Vj Pietrushka, Polish artist Filip Zawada and Japanese pianist and vocalist Aya Ogawa. The stream of mutual intuitions and understanding, various aesthetical and cultural roots and need to share different ways of looking at the same world led to create Butoh Techno. In 2017, japanese physical poet Mushimaru Fujieda joins the project.
It combines improvised and techno music, visuals and dance movements to tell a fable of man whose life is continuous journey. Dancer and musicians are characters in this performance playing on a stage that becomes metaphor of life. Physical poet uses his body to tell stories of man falls and uprises while facing odds of life. Musicians take role of his friends or adversaries by creating audio visual tensions and releases to build multilayered abstract scenery. Although the spectacle has loose narrative it is created in real time.