About this Event
A Butoh performance by Rute Ventura & PasMusique, followed by silent film screening of "A Page of Madness"
"White Dove’s Sorrows” Butoh Performance with Live Electronic Music By Rute Ventura and Pas Musique.
A meditation on grief, vulnerability, and transformation. Through the slow, suspended movements of Butoh, the body becomes a vessel for sorrow —embodying a dove caught between mourning and flight.
About the Performing Artists:
Rute Ventura is a Portuguese multidisciplinary visual artist based in New York City. Her art explores identity, reflecting her self-journey, paying close attention to thoughts and conscious awareness. Allowing ideas to navigate through her intuitive creative process, transforming them into paintings, moving images, performance art, or words, in a poetic language. Concurrently, Ventura’s work evokes a surrealistic, existentialist aesthetic, blending physical, emotional, and subconscious sensations boldly and symbolically.
Pas Musique. Since its inception in 1995, Pas Musique, the brainchild of Brooklyn-based founder Robert L. Pepper, has evolved through diverse dark electronic, industrial, and experimental incarnations. Pas Musique has collaborated with notable artists such as Faust, Rapoon, Martin Bisi, ZEV, Ron Anderson, Philippe Petit, HATI, and Chester Hawkins. With performances spanning 18 countries and extensive tours across the United States, Pas Musique continues to push sonic boundaries.
A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji) Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa & co-written by Yasunari Kawabata.
A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji) is a 1926 Japanese silent avant-garde film. Lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971, the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha (or School of New Perceptions) who tried to overcome naturalistic representation. Nottingham Culture's BBC preview of the film called it, "a balletic musing on our subconscious nightmares, examining dream states in a way that is both beautiful and highly disturbing."
Event venue & nearby stays
Gallery 198, 198 24th Street, Brooklyn, United States
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