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‘Where the place? Upon the heath.’ ‘when the hurlyburly’s done…’ ‘like a hell-broth boil and bake’ ‘my voice is in my sword’ For some time now I’ve been studying a style of Japanese, avant-garde dance known as ANKOKU BUTOH (or simply “Butoh”): the dance of darkness. It was developed in the late 1950s as a style of contemporary dance which flowed from the social horror of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The emotional fallout fractured social norms and gave birth to a cathartic, dark, and obscure movement style. What I’ve accomplished through Butoh is a renewed sense of body and an openness of physicality that Western structures often commands since childhood. Since leaving the military, it’s also been vital to me to shed the strict body programming we are taught as modern warriors. Butoh dances to the shadows of the subconscious and along the liminal cracks of what we feel. ‘hell is murky…’ The love and support for my shop has been incredibly humbling! 🫀 Don’t forget that it has everything for your creative space and home: prints, posters, canvases, stickers, magnets, notebooks, hats, mugs etc! All inspired by or depicting key pieces from my portfolio. Shop now at quintenavila.com! ‘angels are bright still, though the brightest fell’ “It is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes…”🗡️