Butó dance theater show

Author of the text, direction, set design and performance: Emil Sauciuc
Premiere date: March 28, 2002

In the austere setting of the Studio Hall, actor Emil Sauciuc proposed to the Oradea cultural community an absolutely new show, based on the Asian model of butó dance. Using only a chair, a chain, a wig, a model of the globe, a soundtrack made up of musical pieces rarely found in mass culture and, above all, his own face and body, Emil Sauciuc transmitted, in a show of great metaphorical concentration, a disturbing message about man, about faith, about suffering and death, about the all-healing power of love.

Born in the Japanese space (the origins of the dance are attributed to the masters Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ono), butó dance does not require any school, no prior course. It seeks to rediscover the primordial roots of being in the depths of the body, understanding by this the maximum expression of our vital energy. Butó dance begins when the dancer is in a state of complete forgetfulness of identity, of his own culture, of the conventional way of using the body. Giving himself totally and living his impulses, he reaches absolute freedom, becoming a flow of pure energy, through which movement becomes creation.

Technical director: Florin Popescu
Lights: Iosif Balogh, Sorin Precup, László Attila Oláh
Sound: Ioan Mariţan