Asymmetries suggests an unstable condition, a sensitive and fragile in-between where something is just about to appear.

For Asymmetries – a threefolded choreography by KAI-EN Butoh Company I composed a score of a vast different sounds; field recordings from Tokyo of Patchinko halls, train stations and crickets; natural materials such as seeds and stones; trumpet with electronics and various paper materials.

KAI-EN
Concept, choreography, dance, costume, sound, light, space

Alexandra Nilsson
Composition

Ronald Salas
Light design

Performed at Fylkingen, Stockholm
October 21–22, 2023

With support from Swedish Arts Grants Committee and residency at MDT.

About KAI-EN Butoh Company:
KAI-EN is a butoh artist, based in Stockholm, Sweden

KAI-EN´s work engage in the subtle but radical qualities of becoming.
Through erasure, withdrawal and surrender, the body’s conditions of existence in the world are shifted. Disintegration and porosity are conditions often returned to. At its core lies a desire to become landscape – the body´s co-existence with the ever-shifting, diverse and vibrant universe.

The body is the centre of the work. In butoh, the body and the consciousness are pushed towards an intention of becoming other – other living beings, organic processes and forces. Butoh evokes an intense relation with the world through all senses. Through this process the body’s relationship to the world is shifted. The body and the space becomes alive.