born
of
primordial chaos
[ B U T O H ]
Tohu Wa-Bohu
The CHAOTIC DEPTH just before light dawned upon earth.
The raw material. Primordial.
Confusion is stirred in us through this.
Yet from welter and waste [tohu wa-bohu] and darkness comes radical aliveness and light.
Butoh dance is a direct expression that chaos is not chaotic.
All paradox is present.
It’s the possibility of everything
This depth is a watery womb from which the seas were born.
In this contemplative silence that the possibilities within the chaos begin to dance. Tohu wa-bohu – a poetic echo in the silence: Elusive messages drifting; unlikely possibilities awakening. derangement of the senses. Infinite possibilities vibrate. What might be nothing, murmurs of what might yet be something.
And within the formless, something emerges.