RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

In Quicksilver , Ko Murobushi takes his body to the limit to enter a universe of pain and darkness. His extraordinarily muscular body, painted entirely in silver, changes and transforms, combining images of a man who moves at the extreme limit between life and death. Quicksilver subtracts any notion of decorative movement and plunges, both the performer and the spectator, into a timeless world of catharsis. Ko Murobushi presented
Quicksilver for the first time in November 2005 as a work in progress at the Kazuo Ohno Festival at BankART NYK. The piece premiered at Die Pratze in Azabu, Tokyo, receiving great reviews for its soulful butoh presentation, as could only be done by Murobushi. In June 2006, Murobushi was invited to present Quicksilver at the Venice Biennale Dance Festival in Italy. Taken as the main performance of the festival that year, the production again received international acclaim.

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KO MUROBUSHI

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In the sixties, Ko Murobushi studied with Tatsumi Hijikata, the Japanese choreographer who founded Butoh. In 1974, he founded the Butoh magazine Hageshii Kisetsu [violent season], and the female Butoh company Ariadone. Two years later he founded the all-male group, Sebi. It was with the co-production between these two groups, named Le Dernier Eden - Porte de L'Au-de-La , premiered in 1978 in Paris, that Murobushi aroused the interest of Europeans in Butoh. Since then, his work has continued combining the desire to deepen the connection to Japanese roots with openness to influences from around the world. Ko Murobushi has participated in numerous international co-productions, presenting shows and receiving awards worldwide. In 2003 he founded his company Ko & Edge with three young Japanese dancers.

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QUICKSILVER

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Direction, Choreography & Performance: Ko Murobushi | Music: Luigi Nono, Osamu Goto and the voices of Tatsumi Hijikata and Antonin Artaud | Production: Ko & Edge Co. | Premiere: June 2006 / Azabu die pratze, Tokyo

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Show presented as part of the project Tokyogaqui

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Production in Brazil: prod.art.br | Production manager: Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Executive production: Jussara Rahal, Ricardo Frayha

 

Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Sesc Avenida Paulista

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

29 and 30/03/2008