Wednesday, August 31, 2011

My body is a space (from my Butoh Vlog)



My body is a space/
ghosts are moving in it/
beings I invoke and convoke/
They travel from feet to head/
euphoric cry in my hands








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Monday, August 29, 2011

"La danza del Padre" Comic Strip and Video for the Sixth Movement: Le père est roi et juge

La danza del padre. Sexto movimiento: Le Père est roi et juge on Vimeo by Gustavo Thomas


"La danza del Padre"
 Le père est roi et juge

Comic Strip







Video of the Sixth Movement:
La danza del Padre. Sixth Movement: Le père est roi et juge from Gustavo Thomas on Vimeo.


Música:

Realis - I Headrushed (ft. gurdonark)
By Dan S. from Cathayist
ccMixter
2007 - Licensed under
Creative Commons
Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)





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Monday, August 22, 2011

I could have not been born (Sharing a video from my Butoh Vlog)


Gustavo Thomas Butoh Vlog: I could have not been born


Sometimes we feel that we've achieved something, and today while editing my Butoh Vlog for August 12, 2011 I felt that.

There is a myth, a real myth, about my birth, I could have not been born: I was stuck in my own umbilical cord; the cord had surrounded my neck and strangled me. Doctors put everything in order before my birth and now I'm alive.

This video is not an illustration of those moments, but images coming from this myth of my birth are so powerful that work as a source for the movement in it.

Butoh is simple, and only becomes complex when we try to explain it...







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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

"La danza del Padre" Comic Strip and Video for the Fifth Movement: Le père se meurt pour 1ère fois

La danza del padre. Quinto Movimiento: Le Père se meurt pour 1ére fois on Vimeo by Gustavo Thomas

"La danza del Padre"
 Le père se meurt pour 1ère fois

Comic Strip





Video for the Fifth Movement:

La danza del padre. Fifth Movement: Le Père se meurt pour 1ère fois from Gustavo Thomas on Vimeo.
La danza del padre. Fifth Movement: Le Père se meurt pour 1ère fois

La danza del padre. Quinto Movimiento: Le Père se meurt pour 1ére fois

Music:

"Except The Darkness In Our Hearts"
by Subliminal

2009 - Licensed under
Creative Commons
Attribution (3.0)






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Friday, August 12, 2011

Photographs of 4 sesions at Yoshito Ohno's Butoh Workshop in Yokohama (2011)




I've been writing about my experience at Yoshito Ohno's Butoh Workshop in Yokohama and I'm very pleased with the result, many good and interesting comments and good wishes to my new career in Butoh. So, now I'd like to share not words but images, part of hundreds of photographs I extracted from the videos recorded during those days. These photograph also talk about my experience there and they are an invaluable record of my student life, hope you find them interesting.

You'll se only one photograph published of each session (I only choose 4 sessions) but a slideshow from flickr with all the other images. I'm starting with session 2.

2nd session
Yoshito Ohno Butoh Workshop: Session 5 (Yokohama, 2011)



3rd session
Yoshito Ohno Butoh Workshop: Session 3 (Yokohama, 2011)




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Monday, August 8, 2011

Faces and Hands in my Butoh Vlog


Gustavo Thomas Butoh Vlog: Faces


As some of you may know I'm working in a personal project around my Butoh daily training, a Butoh Vlog, where I'm video-recording one small choreography which "emerges" from that training; every time a different choreography and every time an amazing experience (in my point of view, of course).

That Vlog got its own site (in tumblr: http://gustavothomasbutohvlog.tumblr.com/ or here in Blogger with a special page for it: http://gustavothomastheatre.blogspot.com/p/gustavo-thomas-butoh-vlog.html).

Many interesting things have happened in that project and today I'd like to share something I consider remarkable, the visual possibilities Butoh offers to me. After many days working and recording choreographies with my whole body in movement, I decided to work only with body parts, first with hands (and arms) and after with my face (and head). The result as I say was remarkable, I liked too much and I can assure there is a lot of new possibilities for a creative work, specially in the field of visual arts.

I won't talk more about it, it'll be better to show it and you'll watch by yourselves. I'm publishing some photographs extracted from the video with my face with some photoshop effects, and after that the two videos, with arms-hands and with head-face, both with a special effect as well.



Gustavo Thomas Butoh Vlog for July 29, 2011: Two Hands / Dos Manos from Gustavo Thomas on Vimeo.







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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

A Dream Play Preface. Strindberg explaining his new theatre.





While reading Michael Meyer's biography of Strindberg I found this quotation from Strindberg's preface to A Dream Play. A very interesting and useful words if you want to understand Strindberg's theatre propositions and the acting technique developed from that theatre.


"In this dream play, the author has, as in his former dream play, To Damascus, attempted to imitate the inconsequent yet transparently logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations. The characters split, double, multiply, evaporate, condense, disperse, assemble. But one consciousness rules over them all, that of the dreamer; for him there are no secrets, no illogicalities, no scruple, no laws. He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates; and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so an undertone of melancholy and of pity for all mortal beings accompanies this flickering tale." *





* Page 431. Strindberg, A Biography. By Michael Meyer. 1985. Random House. New York, USA.


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