The term budô (武道) is usually translated from Japanese as “martial path”. Dô (道) means path, a course of life to which you give your energy and body. Bu (武) is associated with martial, war, military art. However, a semantic game can be made because bu (舞) is equally dancing, movement. Therefore, budô can be interpreted as the martial path and as the dance path. BUDÔ is the title of the work we propose, due to our intention of to highlight the connection of these two ways of being. — Joana Couto & Leo Calvino

Corpo + Cidade: Performance co-programmed by balleteatro