MUT
Concept, Dramatugy and Dance : Tiziana Longo
Music Composition: Hoshiko Yamane
Concept
MUT (the German word for courage) is a solo performance examining how media noise, social narratives, and fragmented storytelling shape our perception of self, others, and the world. Through physical embodiment, MUT situates the dancer’s body within the relentless flow of global news, exploring how information both overwhelms and defines us.
Instead of conveying fixed narratives, the choreography enacts a lived, somatic response to media saturation and its intersection with human experience. The performance draws from personal conversations with women and refugees across continents, bringing their stories into visceral relation with individual and collective perception.
Accompanied by haunting live music by Hoshiko Yamane, MUT’s visual and auditory layers interact with the movement, turning printed news into expanding sculptural volumes and shifting emotional fields that the performer must negotiate physically.
Why MUT Matters Now — Relevance to Berlin & Today
In the current moment, Berlin — as a crossroads of global culture, migration, and political discourse — provides a unique context for re-staging MUT. The work resonates with ongoing discussions around media acceleration, identity politics, and the embodied experience of information overload.
- Critical Engagement with Media: MUT transforms the abstract noise of global news into embodied experience, inviting audiences to confront how media saturates consciousness and shapes judgment.
- Migration and Narrative: Drawing from fieldwork with refugees and women from multiple cultural backgrounds, MUT gives corporeal presence to voices often obscured in mass media.
- Embodied Resistance: The performance invites viewers into a space of reflection, courage, and endurance — qualities deeply pertinent in an era marked by political polarization, ecological crisis, and information fragmentation.
By re-presenting MUT in Berlin, the work enters a cultural landscape eager for performance that foregrounds critical thinking, social engagement, and poetic physicality.
MUSIC: https://hoshikoyamane.bandcamp.com/album/mut
Photo: Arthur Aaizikovich
Upcoming Events
2026
New performance projects are currently in creation and funding development.
Tour dates and premieres to be announced.
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2025
Up to Three: The Body and the music --- Mozaik Ensemble at Acker Stadt Palast , Berlin
Fammi ascoltare il silenzio - Performance for two musician and one dancer (Tiziana Longo, Tänz / Simon Strasser, Oboe/ Mathis Mayr, Violoncello)
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2024
6th December "Spaghetti" Carichi Sospesi, Padova
11th October "Spaghetti" TanzHotel Wien
10 August Lady Moon with Hoshiko Yamane "A MoonTagna Fest", Etna Park, Sicily
21st June "Genuine" An intimate evening of Solos, duos, and performative rituals through Butoh, Berlin
31st MAY "MUT" Latvia Performing Arts Festival Startelpa, Riga, Latvia
18th May "Spaghetti" Atelier Ottimo, Berlin27th April "MAGOKORO" at Kauno paveikslų galerija in Almyra Weigel Solo Exhibition, Kaunas, Lithuania
13th February 2024 『 TORO』トロー牡牛座 Butoh Dance Performance at TheaterXcai , Tokyo, Japan
Concept, Dramaturgy, Dance: Tiziana Longo コンセプト・ダンス ティツアナ・ロンゴ
Soundscapes、Light Design Soga Masaru 音響・照明:曽我傑
Soprano Singer: Marielle Murphy
http://www.theaterx.jp/24/240213-240213p.php
18th February 2024 2月１８日2024年
SHIMIIRU - 染み入る
butoh dance performance 舞踏公演
at Seiji Tanaka Studio, Nara, Japan
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17th June 2022 h. 21:30
Spazio De André di via Matteotti, Osnago (LC), ITALY
"La Voce del Corpo" Festival
SHIMIRU
染みる
Di e con Tiziana Longo / Motimaru
Composizione e violino: Hoshiko Yamane
光と影が染み込んだ心
Shimiru 染みる in giapponese significa permeare.
Come l'acqua assorbita da una spugna, il corpo, l'anima, il cuore si imbevono di esistenza.
Shimiru e' uno spettacolo sulle pieghe della vita, sull' anelito dell' essere umano che vuole unirsi all'altro. Questo tentativo diventa la ricerca fisica, mentale e spirituale di unirsi dualisticamente, colletivamente, singolarmente attraverso un legame tracciato, slacciato e ritracciato che si dilegua continuamente assorbito, diventando piega.
Shimiru parla di pieghe, di parti in luce e parti in ombra.
Su questo corpo di pieghe penetrano corde di violino, ora delicate, ora sensibili, ora tese, ora impossibili.
Assorbite sorgono i conflitti di cui tutti noi, io e tu, diventiamo autori inediti
Un irruzione inaspettata che invade separa e disperde quell'unione precaria, sogno di liberta', malinconia, languore
Lasciarsi attraversare, finire un ciclo e ricominciare
Di luce e di ombre
Il corpo EROS
inbevuto
respira trame incarnate , pieghe
che scivolano come un guanto nel cuore
https://www.lavocedelcorpo.eu/
Photo: Gabriele Cafici
Photo: Gabriele Cafici
18 September 2021
at 16.00, in Weigendufer Canal/ Wildenbruchplatz on the riverside, Neukölln, Berlin
ACQUA/Wie die Steine auf dem Grund des Flusses
ACQUA/Come le pietre sul letto del fiume
In the frame of the Initiative "Draussenstadt", the project has been selected for the Festival "Uber Wasser"
The toilet facility at the Wildenbruch bridge, transformed by the municipality in a gallery, between the Weingandufer canal and Wildendenbruchplatz is the occasion of the gathering and celebration. The municipality has invited artists to create a project around it with the theme: on the water.
All the events are happening outside and are free of charge.
ACQUA/Wie die Steine auf dem Grund des Flusses is a site-specific performance tailored-suit to Weigandufer Canal next to Wildenbruckplatz.
The performance itself is an ichi-go ichi-e 一期一会 journey.
One time and only in a lifetime!
Program of the Festival:
https://kunstbruecke-am-wildenbruch.de/en/exhibitions/draussenstadt-ueber-wasser
More info about the place :
https://kunstbruecke-am-wildenbruch.de/en/about-us/profile
ACQUA/Wie die Steine auf dem Grund des Flusses
Concept/Images/Dramaturgy and Dance: Tiziana Longo
Music Composition: Hoshiko Yamane
Installation and Costume: Almyra Weigel
Concept description in English, Italian and German
ENGLISH
Do you see the flowers?
After such a long, hard period of global pandemic locked up at home: Water!
The desire to be reborn and to bloom
Watering our vital forces, our spirit, our existence
like watering flowers
Healing is a slow process
And the river is long
You heal when you decide which boat to take
Board it
Floating
Floating
on the water
It's the water
A floating object moves
It is the object of the dream...
the unconscious floating on the river of consciousness...
We stand in our existence like stones.
The stones of this river seem hard and unfeeling
We lie down in our existence like stones
The stones in this river look hard, but they are by the water formed
The water flows through
We are all passed through
ITALIANO
Tu li vedi i fiori?
Dopo un periodo di pandemia mondiale così lungo e duro rinchiusi a casa : Acqua!
Il desiderio di rinascere e sbocciare
Innaffiare le nostre forze vitali, il nostro spirito, la nostra esistenza
come innaffiare i fiori.
Guarire e' un processo lento
E il fiume e' lungo
Si guarisce quando si decide che barca prendere
Fermi
Fluttuanti
Fluttuando
sull' acqua
E' l'acqua ...
Un oggetto galleggiante si muove
È l' oggetto del sogno...
l' inconscio che galleggia sul fiume della coscienza...
Stiamo nella nostra esistenza come pietre
Le pietre di questo fiume sembrano dure e non sentire
ma dall' acqua ne sono formate
E' l'acqua che li attraversa
GERMAN
Siehst du die Blumen?
Nach einer so langen, harten Zeit der globalen Pandemie zu Hause eingesperrt: Wasser!
Der Wunsch, wiedergeboren zu werden und zu erblühen
Bewässerung unserer Lebenskräfte, unseres Geistes, unserer Existenz
wie Blumen gießen.
Heilung ist ein langsamer Prozess
Und der Fluss ist lang
Sie heilen, wenn Sie entscheiden, welches Boot Sie nehmen
Entschlossenes Klettern
Mit Mut
Schwimmend
Schwimmend
auf dem Wasser
Es ist das Wasser ...
Ein bewegtes schwimmendes Objekt dem Ort des Geschehens.
Es ist ein Objekt des Traums...
Unser Unbewusstes, das auf dem Fluss des Bewusstseins schwimmt ...
Wir legen uns in unserer Existenz wie Steine hin
Die Steine in diesem Fluss sehen hart aus, aber sie sind vom Wasser geformt
Es ist das Wasser, das durch sie fließt
27th August 2021,18:00
open art Lausitz Festival
In Steinitzhof Drebkau, Germany
MUT /new version
Concept/ Dramaturgy and dance: Tiziana Longo
Installation: Almyra Weigel
Soundtrack and live violin: Hoshiko Yamane
https://hoshikoyamane.bandcamp.com/album/mut
18th 19th June 2021 at 21:00, St Christoforus Kirche
48Stunde Neukölln Festival
ARIA
More Info: https://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/event/aria
https://berlinomagazine.com/2021-48-ore-neukolln-a-berlino-un-intero-quartiere-in-festa-con-piu-di-100-eventi-darte/
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Photo: Yozy Zhang
IPhoto: Yozy Zhang