RAPTURE

Brutally beautiful new work with SU-EN Butoh Company
World premiere at Dansens Hus, October 20+22, 2011

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a creation song
sprung from the earth
radiating from the spine
at harvest time
the bitch is born wild
already lost in madness
vivacious
shameless
she bites with the soul of a spider
she burns
she howls
singing the song of rapture

SU-EN investigates, chaos, ecstasy, rapture and joy. Sublime Japanese aesthetics in a body of brutal beauty. Rapture celebrates the dancing madness of the body.

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Choreography: SU-EN
Dance: SU-EN and Marie Gavois with Gabriel Bohm Calles, Anders Friberg, Jonas Klinkenberg (Germany) – Heiko Klandt (Germany/Belgium), Helena Kantinkoski (Finland/Sweden) – Anna Bergsten, Maria Lundström
Music and live performance: Aki Onda (Japan/US)
Stage art and art actions: Junichi Kakizaki (Japan)
Light: Johan Söderberg
Space: SU-EN
Costume, hair and body art: SU-EN
Photo, visual preparations and layout: Gunnar H Stening
Production: Mon no Kai/SU-EN Butoh Company and Dansens Hus
Supported by: Swedish Arts Council, City of Uppsala, Cultural Affairs Board and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee

Performance + Artist Talk with SU-EN moderated by dance critic Gilles Kennedy (UK)

A T R I B U T E T O A L L T H E S T U B B O R N B I T C H E S I N T H E W O R L D

Swedish Butoh pioneer and prize winning choreographer SU-EN takes a look at the dancing mania. Rapture is bliss, ecstasy, vivid madness. Inspired by tarantism from the rural Italy, in early times, where people who were bitten by the tarantula spider were struck by a dancing mania to purify themselves.

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