RECENTLY, as in October 2023, I birthed a new butohclown piece “Two Treasures” around flower, earth and ritual. It started as a butoh dance at Harupin Ha’s annual showcase with music/ambience created by Yogetsu Agasaka’s beat boxing, looping and chanting the Heart Sutra.
Since then, I’ve been transforming it into butohclown, inviting my YooWho into the piece. “Two Treasures was first performed at Seattle’s Moisture Festival and the Montreal Clown Festival (2024). It continues to evolve as i perform it occasionally. Here is an abstraction of the piece as created by Peter Cunningham with Ara Fitzgerald on second camera.
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Truth be told, I had little idea I could be funny until I started street performing as a juggler in Europe in the summer of 1981. At the time, I had grown disenchanted with the ‘working world’ and was determined to discover an alternate pathway in life … Two years later, I quit my job at Merrill Lynch and drove to Montreal where I found the perfect spot to evolve my funny…
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