The duo Yui Butsu yo butsu approaches space and performance totally in situ, ie writing the music and choreography live, as the performance happens, with the location, as if it were possible to understand the world in a single breath, like sheet music — writings — waiting to be decoded…
From near to far, the dancer, animal, goes as far as feeding off the body of the musician stuck inside an electrical sound machine that seems to be sprouting from his hands, like a wild plant.
Radical, extremely sensitive music and choreographical demands akin to a contagious form of subterranean art…
With Yui Butsu yo butsu, one of the challenges consists, for example, in keeping audience and artist in a single unique breath. To describe Yui Butsu yo butsu, one could borrow a saying from author Kenneth White: “Concrete or abstract? I like abstraction where you find a memory of substance, concrete thinning out on the edges of the void.” [free translation]
In situ?: Through the years they have been together, the Higashi / Marchetti duo has worked in the moat of a medieval castle, at the bottom of a grotto, at the edge of a forest, in the gardens of a temple, inside a dead tree, but also in an art gallery basement, in a noisy bar, on a Baroque theatre stage, in a circus ring, on a dance stage, on a highway curb, under a bridge, and alongside a cliff edge in the mountains…
Therefore, whenever possible, Yui Butsu yo butsu is particularly keen on taking their choreography to unusual venues.
[English translation: François Couture, xi-09]