Lazarus - a white shadow

The eminent Japanese Butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata once said: "Butoh is like a corpse that rises to life again and again".

With "Lazarus, a white shadow", Munich-based Butoh dancer Stefan Maria Marb seeks a body-poetic approach to death. In this archaic journey of remembrance, Marb stages the resurrection of a loved one and, together with fellow musicians, processes personal moments, gratitude and pain into a touching dance and music performance.

Marb learned Butoh dance from several Japanese masters and has been working in this relatively new dance style for over thirty years. He confronts himself and his audience with the minimalist but open form of this style, which expresses inner transformation and overarching experience. The white-painted body is a question to the audience, a moving sculpture that invites reflection.

On two evenings, June 29 and 30, 2024, Stefan Maria Marb will present his profound Butoh performance. He will be supported by Boris Kammin as the "dervish", as well as Masako Ohta on piano, Christoph Nicolaus on stone harp and Jost-H.Hecker on cello.

Japanese Butoh dance emerged towards the end of the 1950s as a counter-movement to modern Japan and has its roots in Noh, Kabuki theater and German expressive dance. Shamanistic and strongly ritualistic elements also flowed into butoh dance. Butoh is characterized by contrasting qualities of movement such as fast-slow, soft-hard or wild-tender. Butoh is a method with which one's own deepest inner spaces are explored and shaped through dance. The mind, consciousness and body are in direct harmony with space and time. At the center of this dance is the body and the personal experience of the dancer.

"Lazarus, a white shadow", on June 29 and 30, 8 p.m. at Einstein Kultur / Halle 02, Einsteinstraße 42, 81675 Munich.

Tickets at € 25.- / reduced € 16.- plus advance booking fee are available here.

die kulturbananen
Jahnstr. 6
85567 Grafing
Germany

https://www.kulturbananen.de

Frau Dr Gabi Sabo
0163-5081840

gabi.sabo@kulturbananen.de

Stefan Marria Marb has been practicing Butoh since 1988. He studied with the following masters: Ko Murobushi, Mitsutaka Ishi, Carlotta Ikeda, Min Tanaka, Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno and Tadashi Endo. He has danced with Ko Murobushi, Min Tanaka and Yoshito Ohno in various productions ("Le cycle du stupeur" in Strasbourg and Lille, "Venus and Adonis" at the Bavarian State Opera and "The Magic Flute" at the Salzburg Festival). In the course of these encounters, Marb gradually developed his own Butoh, which he uses in performances, stage productions, workshops and also in dance therapy and continues to develop.

This release was published on openPR.