A confrontation in the endless fight between the immortal soul and the mortal body. Butoh is to become the other, not to mean the other. Metamorphosis instead of metaphors. Butoh of the beginning has been pure provocation, resistance against the cultural establishment and the social system. It was experimental, theatrical and physically present, sometimes grotesque, sometimes absurd or mystical.
Japanese culture is rich in myths and legends which are still alive.
Like these Butoh is looking for the origin. Therefore Butoh often looks more like a heathen ritual than a dance, like phantastic or symbolic pictures. The main theme is always the circle of life and death and it is always the attempt to overcome this contradiction, to overco- me the distance between human beings and the material world.