Haudanryöstö (Grave robbing)

Dance | Tanssi: Tashi Iwaoka

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Haudanryöstö (Grave robbing) is an adaptation of a solo material from VIRTA, a group work by Irina Baldini.

It is a short performance sketch about digging deep down into the underworld.

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In the underworld things are reversed.

Falling into the deep is to reach the highest.

To find the treasures that should never be found.

They will darken our senses and we will never recover them.

And we fall even deeper.

To see the end of this world with our darkest eyes.

 

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Tashi Iwaoka is a Turku based performance artist/mover/Butoh practitioner.

After his first Butoh experiences in 1997 with Kazuo Ohno and Kim Itoh in Japan, Iwaoka practised Butoh based bodywork for over 10 years. Since 2010 he is deeply influenced by Budo, Japanese martial arts, and working on finding the nucleus of human expression and connection. One of the central driving forces for this is the attempt to fuse his oriental roots and Western perspectives to form a more proper view on ‘being a human’ in this world. He wishes to disinter the universality of Eastern wisdom in order to help us understand what it is to be a human.

In 2020 he began searching for what his butoh is extensively and has been deepening what Butoh means.

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