The West waves the banners of youth and beauty with our many prophylactics against the passage of time: Botox to erase the lines of experience, dyes to fill in colors that have faded, lifts and push-ups to counter the inexorable pull of gravity. An old building gets gutted, an old phone gets thrown into the darkest corner of the junk drawer, an old pair of shoes gets thrown over telephone wires that no longer hum with activity, because who has a landline anymore? While chipped cups and smashed saucers usually go into the trash heap, the Japanese art of kintsugi celebrates the ravages of age by gluing broken ceramics back together with lacquer and then burnishing the seams with gold. See the concept in performance in The Faults We Sought to Mend: Burnished at the Broken Places by the for change dance collective.
The for change dance collective presents The Faults We Sought to Mend: Burnished at the Broken Places at 8 p.m. and again 2 p.m. Sunday at Eighth Street Studio, 2525 Eighth St., Berkeley. $10-$20; forchangedance.org.
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