The Keeper's Dance: An Evening of Butoh
With Lime presents
Rosemary Candelario (Austin, Texas) and Miki Seifert (Wellington/Los Angeles)
Two bodies. Three Butoh dances. Infinite transformations.
aqueous: What does water know that we have forgotten?
The Keeper’s Dance: What is the weight of waiting where land warns sea?
Time Without Beginning: What does the rice seedling carry from the plant that preceded it?
Butoh is visceral and cathartic, ethereal and poetic. A Butoh performance is not merely seen, but experienced and felt.
Followed by a post-show Q&A.
@BlacklandButohLab and @WithLime
“Miki Seifert’s performance brings utter beauty and strength”
ABOUT BUTOH
Emerging in Japan in the late 1950s and 1960s as an avant-garde dance form, Butoh, drawing upon memory—both personal and collective—attempts to express the ineffable through images and movement, revealing both the complexity and the simplicity of life.
At its core, Butoh is about transformation. This capacity for transformation is not merely theatrical—it is a fundamental ecological skill and adaptive strategy, asking us to shift who we are as individuals to understand our place within the more-than-human world.
CREATIVE TEAM
aqueous
Choreographed and performed by Rosemary Candelario
Music by Sarah Ruth
Time without beginning
Choreographed and performed by Miki Seifert
Lighting design, projections and soundscape by William Franco
Costumes by Marceline Wallace
The Keeper’s Dance
Choreographed and performed by Rosemary Candelario and Miki Seifert
Lighting design, projections and soundscape by William Franco
Image credits: Composite: Miki Seifert, William Franco and r.nihiline
Image description: Atmospheric image of two women in white makeup screaming
