The In-Between

What happens when life touches death - when one is nearly dead, in transition? What is the state of consciousness when one is not yet fully awake? What is the sensation of emergence, when the head has crossed the threshold of birth while the body remains held within the womb? The in-between — the space of transition — is where wondrous things happen. It is with an awareness that life always touches death, and in the space between reality and dream, figuration and disfiguration, that we dance butoh.

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