"The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of this global art form. Originating in Japan in the 1960s, butoh was a major innovation in 20th century dance and performance, and it continues to shape-shift around the world. T…
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"Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original an…
"Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original an…
Butō - Dance - Body - Bodymind - Butō techniques - Butō in Poland -- Training process - Intro phase - Following - Embodiment - Transformation in the dancer and the audience The author explores the practices of Polish butō dancers. Underlining the transcultural potential of the …
Zero Jigen's pre-expressive utopian body: ritual theory and urban transformation -- Butoh Cine dance and the remediated sixties -- Singing yokoo tadanori: IchiyanagiToshi, the city and the aesthetics of listening -- Performing revolution at Shinjuku Plaza -- The Osaka exposition…
"Butoh, also known as "dance of darkness," is a postmodern dance form that began in Japan as an effort to recover the primal body, or "the body that has not been robbed," as butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata put it. Butoh has become increasingly popular in the United States and thr…
"Butoh, also known as "dance of darkness," is a postmodern dance form that began in Japan as an effort to recover the primal body, or "the body that has not been robbed," as butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata put it. Butoh has become increasingly popular in the United States and thr…
