butoh

<Meniscus is a butoh-based work for four dancers, two musicians and a small herd of animated objects.  The performance takes place in a church, and like the church’s architecture, negotiates tensions between the restricted but verifiable horizontal plane, and the soaring but insubstantial promise of altitude.  Surfacing throughout are themes of buoyancy, ventriloquism, aqua aerobics, shallow sea ecology, science fiction, disappearance, and prayer.>  more...