Butoh dance and dancer

dancing darts 
darknesses
darkness drapes
tense dancing
toward time
trashing dross tales

and I see
her shaking
the dance is
not the dancer
and pain is
realistic

The video clip above was the writing prompt in this workshop run by Eva, who has two texts on this blog.
Before today, I did not know anything about Butoh, a Japanese dance form. Ankoku Butō (暗黒舞踏) = the Dance of Darkness.

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