The Camden Fringe Voyeur
Peeping up the skirts of the Camden Fringe
24th-30th August 2009
A bit of butoh for the soul
By Honour Bayes
A non verbal Butoh dance piece accompanied by a distorted cello composition, In Between Butoh Dance Company’s Donw-a is about diversity and folly inspired by Shakespeare’s The Two Nobel Kinsmen. “The aspect of failure interested me very much”, the softly spoken Ezio Tangini explains, “and so I took this text to my collegues who were also very interested and we began from there”.
Waiting to give their audience a holistic sensory experience, Ezio and his partner Flavia Ghisalberti aim to confront us with our deepest fears, emotions and obsessions in a piece which will flood the senses and take you into some difficult and dark places.
But though they may ask a lot, they will be with us all the way, baring everything as they would ask to do: “The performance is not to be understood but to be felt. It is very important that they feel something intense, that a revelation occurs within each individual”.
Down-a may sound like a scary journey but after speaking to the calming and warm Ezio, I know it will definitely be an interesting one; for all those brave enough to walk it.
Down-a will be showing at 9.15 pm from Sat 22nd - Mon24 th August at the Camden People’s Theatre, Euston.