Background:
In 2004 Jaime Razzo founded the first Mexican dance company specializing in Butoh, a discipline originally from Japan. Razzo himself studied in Japan with Kazuo Ohno, one of the creators of Butoh, thanks to a grant from the Maijuku Butoh Company. This dancer and director has performed in forums and spaces in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Scotland, England and Italy. The group has recorded its creative process for posterity in a documentary produced by the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica and a television program produced by Edusat and the National Fund for Culture and the Arts.

Important Productions:
El calendario del cuerpo, Ánima corpora, Muxe, Un minuto de tus ojos and Íntimo Butoh (Intervención a una casa habitación).

Current Repertoire:
Huesos rotos, a Butoh dance proposal that distills the energy potential generated by confronting the intimacy of pain with indifference and desperation, discovering in dance the silent cry of the soul.

Press Comments:
“The choreography moves from initial resistance to pain to the transgression of immobility, with the dissenting pause symbolizing solitude and efforts to amend the situation internally, before culminating in an opening up to other bodies”. Julieta Riveroll, Reforma, May 7th, 2008.

“Sleep, sighs and peace are used to move from beauty to pain […] the dancers demonstrate their knowledge and masterful use of the principles of Butoh dance: the force of movement in their path towards the light”. Ángel Vargas, La Jornada, May 10, 2008.

Number of Participants: 8

Space required: Italian forum with a four-level black box, scene changer with cyclorama, flying system, black linoleum

Stage Measurements: 12 x 10 x 5 meters