I dance to feed that which is wild and therefore holy in life.  If done well my dance becomes food for the beings that keep the world alive.  I dance to measure the distance between a human being and the wild or unknown in nature.  I dance as a way to court matter and re-plant the ground between myself and the world with living grasses upon which the things of the world can dance, not as slaves to an empirical goal but as the free and wild song beings that they are.  I dance to subvert the conventional consumer ideology.  The intention is to use everything, both within and without to express without filtration or bias the “Such as it is of the Whole All.”  Syzygy Butoh is a dance in which the body, as nature is encouraged to speak for itself.  In the same way that a flower cannot help but express its flower-ness, our bodies are blooming with an innate, powerful and authentic nature.  Like light projected through film, it is this nature that gives rise to the forms I create.  Like all structures in nature the body has an innate desire to be beautiful, to fulfill it's destiny with artistry and grace.  Ultimately what makes my art is the focus I put on this universal humanity we share.  By offering what is personal so that it may be transfigured into that which is universal my mission is to share the sacred through art. 

-Nathan