Presence-Absence

The observation of a particulary quality of scenic presence has led us to differentiate

between daily techniques, and extra-daily techniques. It is these latter wich concern

the performer.They are characteristic of the performer`s life even before anything

is represented or expressed. This is not easy for an Occidental to accept. How is it posible

that there exist a level of the performer`s art in wich he or she is alive and present

without either representing anything or having any meaning?. For a performer, this state

of being powerfully present while not yet representing anything is an oximoruon,

a contradiction in terms.Moriaky Watanabe define the oximoron of the performer`s pure

presence in this way: "the situation of the performer representing their own absence".

Eugene Barba

I had been see diferents Butoh performance this year without own absence but fixed

on form and daily aesthetics and not open to the sacred ritual of dance and there

implications of transformation :( in words of Mircea Eliada) "performer-individual

inhabitan of a home-body-cosmos and susceptible to recibe a superior opening that

make posible the way to other world".

Keep absence from form and esthetic will not open a superior hole and cut the posibility

of transformation and meet the simbol ,because dont have risk that is beyond any

interpretation. It is part and inhabit the sacred of all dances sometimes explicit is some

ceremonys and not explicitly in some others, but with a comùn ancestral path for

who walk thourgh and who recibe the performance too.

Nube Alix