IN-PERFEZIONE

IN-PERFECTION
An 8-minute video from MATERIA PRIMA’s first performance

“Uniformity in all things is ugly; leaving them unfinished makes them far more interesting... it almost feels as if they breathe more deeply.
Within the imperfection of reality lies its greatest perfection.”

IN-PERFECTION is the inaugural performance of the MATERIA PRIMA project, born out of a personal fracture — a deep ambivalence toward returning to theatre, and more specifically to a certain kind of theatre (physical, dance-based, Butoh-influenced) that I no longer felt suited for. My age, my body, my own judgments were in conflict with a discipline that demands presence above all.
Nonsense, of course. And as often happens, what seemed like fears turned into movement, and into necessity.

Theatre — when taken seriously — has always been therapeutic. This work emerged as a gesture of acceptance, a ritual of exposure, and a stubborn refusal to perform perfection.

The title plays with the paradox of seeking form through its very rupture — through the raw, the unresolved, the incomplete. Not as lack, but as generative fracture.

Fundamental to this process was my encounter with Masaki Iwana’s seminars. His approach to Butoh shaped not only the physical language of this piece but also its deeper philosophical core.

The video (8 minutes) captures this first act of Materia Prima — an honest, imperfect beginning.