Gustavo Collini Sartor studied Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno in Japan and followed him around the world for the sake of learning his art. In s Fari a and Patricia Aschieri. Each of the creatures on stage go through one of the stages in life, so childhood, adulthood and old age are glimpsed at. In s Fari a and Patricia Aschieri, dancing a rather simpler choreography, are quite moving in their devotion. The art of gestures One finds it hard to describe the neatness of refined gestures which seem to vanish in space, filled with pathos, recalling by gone times and memories.
Characters seem to go back to a primeval age of myth, previous to their biological one.
When the ritual is over, energy falls like the roots of a tree seeking fertile ground to shine again. Such statement becomes truer than ever with Butoh, the Japanese dance which, through Collini Sartor's sha-manic art, both recovers ancestral forms and bewitches contemporary audiences. The spectacular images conceived by Ohno with his Butoh technique is today an indelible memory.