An international collaboration between Argentinian and Canadian artists is coming to the stage at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
Metamorphosis Butoh (Puedes Volar Mariposa) is onstage Feb. 21 to 24. It’s a collaboration between Gustavo Collini-Sartor and Salome Nieto, co-produced by Mundo Butoh of Argentina and the Vancouver-based pataSola dance.
The work explores the spirit of death and rebirth, a recurring theme in butoh – a traditional Japanese dance form. The piece is part of a larger work directed and created by Collini-Santor, with the title Origins, in which he explores the meaning and connections between ancestral memory, identity, truth and transformation.
Nieto notes the work dates back to 2011, when pataSola dance embarked on a journey to integrate the two esthetics that drive her work: Japanese butoh and the reality and surrealism of Mexico.
“This exploration led me to Gustavo Collini-Sartor, who followed Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno for 10 years,” she said in a press release. “Our conversations and explorations of imagery, emotion and the work of Kazuo Ohno organically led to the emergence of this piece.”
pataSola dance has a mission to integrate Latin American artists with those of other ethnic backgrounds. For more on their projects, see www.patasoladance.com.
For tickets to the Shadbolt Centre show, which is onstage at 8 p.m. nightly, see tickets.shadboltcentre.com. Tickets are $15 for youth or $36 regular. All seats on opening night are $15.
