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Borboleta do Céu e da Terra is a 50′ solo dance work with experimental live music. Through the languages of Butoh and Flamenco, the piece investigates the search for one’s own roots. It is a work of liberation and a quest for the essential, allowing constraining layers of identity to fall away.

The work addresses opression and brings to light voices long marginalised. In this piece, that presence appears through the symbol of the gypsy — the marginal, the unaccepted, that which society often prefers not to see. A Spanish body with a Flamenco background interprets Butoh, evoking memories of displaced ancestors and histories of exile and cultural displacement.

The encounter between Butoh, Flamenco, and Taiwanese experimental music creates a cross-cultural dialogue. This meeting also resonates with the history of Butoh itself: its founder, Kazuo Ohno, was deeply inspired by the Spanish dancer Antonia Mercé “La Argentina”, whose expressive intensity left a lasting impression on him.
Borboleta do Céu e da Terra continues this dialogue from a contemporary perspective, exploring the uncomfortable and the unaccepted through the memory of a body dancing in honour of its ancestors.