Saturday Sound – Watching a Stone Grow
Post #330
17 July 2020
“Saturday Sounds”
Today, you can HEAR Lynda McKinney Lambert
read her poem…
“Kim Itoh and the Glorious Future”
by Lynda McKinney Lambert
Kim Itoh and the Glorious Future
(Upon viewing a dance performance by Kim Itoh)
Kim Itoh and the Glorious Future
unpredictable
moves slowly on the darkened stage
in the slant of light
from left to right
his bare feet reaching
searching the uncharted
borderlands
of butoh conversation
his arms lift up at right angles
shifting his graceful nude body
his swift hands cut upward
moving independently
like a ghost
this is the hell-raiser
who has a reputation
to live up to-
this is the solo performer
angry and mildly
disturbing
Did you come here
to be shocked
by the Glorious Future
of modern
Japanese
Art?
a comically overtoned
glance?
Butoh – a dance in depth
Butoh – a dance of death.
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Click on the link below to hear Lynda read her poem.
Kim Itoh and the Glorious Future (1999)__Lambert, Lynda. Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage, Kota Press, 2003.
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Butoh is a Post war Japanese Dance form.
I would have seen Sankai Juku in the late 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the first time.
Read more about Sankai Juku here
pathos, tragedy, suffering,
hopelessness,
gesture
– Slow –
time consuming, measured
Original Music
Like being in a Dream
See Kim Itoh here.
Use of the body in describing emotions and thoughts.
You may also like to read more about Sankai Juku,
Buddhist monks – highly disciplined.
Perform in a bare stage – darkness or unusual lighting – mystical aura – but grittiness.
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Read a Review from the Pittsburgh Tribune – October 2002.
https://archive.triblive.com/news/slow-and-steady-sankai-juku-is-unforgettable/
“Like seeing a stone grow”
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This poem is brought to you today by the author, Lynda McKinney Lambert.
Copyright 2019. Lynda McKinney Lambert. All rights reserved.