LIMITS
Body. Body who expresses life. Living body, enlarged to an unbearable limit. To burst social chains. To gain ground in real life. Terra incognita. Explosion of unknown power. Fear. Set the tiger in your body free and you'll discover the place of your real birth. Ground zero. Trembling, vibrating life. A leaf in the wind, fluctuation of particles in space. Death and life, man and woman, animal-human, plant-stone. Limits disappear, dissolve themselves, emerge again... body becomes the limit. In between.
Idea of the project:
LIMITS connects dancers and musicians from different countries of Europe. The project is based on Butohdance, which emerged in Japan in the 60's. Nowadays butoh is known worldwide.
Every year takes place at least one meeting of one week
It's a nomadic project; it overcomes national boundaries
Every meeting contains a workshop and public performances
Few performers are the promoters of the project and they are responsible for the organization (the workshops / the locations of the performances / the lodging)
The workshop is addressed to all those who want to explore their limits, physically and psychically. This field of research opens spaces which invite to an inner journey.
All the dancers and musicians are free in their own performances. Images of dreams and the unconscious are expressed. The actors are held on the limit between inner and external perception. It's a travel to an unknown land during which a complex and emotional image is produced. A free and absurd image which is carried by the responsibility of everyone. The performers leave behind their social body and enter in a zone without any tabu. Like this they offer to the public the possibility to perceive themselves in a new way and to drop in another zone of time. It becomes a reciprocal exchange between performer and public, between me and you, between this time and that time.
(c) Flavia Ghisalberti
