I had the pleasure of documenting Marie-Gabrielle Rotie's Butoh class recently. Photographing the sculptural forms created by the dancers, I was struck by the poignancy of their calm surrender to gravity.
"Butoh is an act of transformation, a process by which the performer
searches for a state of becoming."
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Marie-Gabrielle Rotie |
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Marie Gabrielle-Rotie |