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Bach Is Everything
A dance theater performance documented by Inbal Amit
Prints on lenticular lenses
The following text is included in the piece-
David, my beloved handicapped student, is blind, with recurrent seizures, severe autism, and history of sexual abuse.
He appears catatonic but responds to the music of Bach.
He rises from his wheel chair and move slowly, twisted, transforming into a total Butoh dancer with gestural body that communicates the sublime oblivion and the ridiculous, the awkward and the eloquent, the grotesque and the lucid.
He creeps to the speakers, licks them and illuminated with an angelic smile cries-
- "Help, beautiful, help"
Defining for us the negative space of our awareness.
"When I begin to wish I was crippled... when I am perfectly healthy, or rather that I would have been better off born a cripple, that is the first step toward Butoh"
Tasumi Hijikata