BARA TO BOTAN

Concept and dance: Tiziana Longo

Supervisor: Ohno Yoshito

​

One day I went to the library and the diary of Frida Kahlo fell on my head. 

And I met her, Frida. Quite heavily on my head. And it has stayed like that.

Frida was a controversial charismatic painter and human. Involved in the art, in the love, in the politics.

She was courageous and passionate. Sometimes too much.  

I started reading her diary and it was very much resonating in me. 

On that time I was coming out from a serious car accident. 

This was my first butoh performance in Japan at the Ohno Studio.

It was inspired by a serious car accident that I had when I was 20.

At that time my Master, Yoshito, told me: " You have to start from your accident. From where you could have been dead.

From where the light shut down and where it faded in again"

​

At the Kazuo Ohno Studio, Kamihoshikawain Yokohama, in 2006