…something that I sought to adapt as a singer, was this idea that you can find empathy with and embody the gestures of things beyond the human form- other aspects of the world like the flight of a flock of flamingos or the heartbeat of a salmon or the energetic movement inside a tree and its relationship to the wind or the ghosts of your great great great grandparents- that you could reach toward all those things in your creative mind as a source of inspiration and as a source of momentum to propel you through expression, and it opens up the floor to really, as a performing artist especially, to find energy from all sorts of different things as opposed to just having to just rely on and to mine your own personal story- your pedestrian story.
– Antony Hegarty on how the work of Kazou Ohno, one of the pioneers of butoh dance, has inspired his own work as a performer.
