Tohu Wa-Bohu

The CHAOTIC DEPTH just before light dawned upon earth.

The raw material. Primordial.

Confusion is stirred in us through this.

Yet from welter and waste [tohu wa-bohu] and darkness comes radical aliveness and light. 

Butoh dance is a direct expression that chaos is not chaotic. 

All paradox is present.

It’s the possibility of everything

            This depth is a watery womb from which the seas were born.

In this contemplative silence that the possibilities within the chaos begin to dance. Tohu wa-bohu – a poetic echo in the silence: Elusive messages drifting; unlikely possibilities awakening. derangement of the senses. Infinite possibilities vibrate. What might be nothing, murmurs of what might yet be something. 

And within the formless, something emerges.

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