The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2018
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588 pages
978-1-138-69109-4 (ISBN)
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The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh.
Originating in Japan in the 1960s, butoh was a major innovation in twentieth century dance and performance, and it continues to shape-shift around the world. Taking inspiration from the Japanese avant-garde, Surrealism, Happenings, and authors such as Genet and Artaud, its influence can be seen throughout contemporary performing arts, music, and visual art practices.
This Companion places the form in historical context, documents its development in Japan and its spread around the world, and brings together the theory and the practice of this compelling dance. The interdisciplinarity evident in the volume reflects the depth and the breadth of butoh, and the editors bring specially commissioned essays by leading scholars and dancers together with translations of important early texts.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Originating in Japan in the 1960s, butoh was a major innovation in twentieth century dance and performance, and it continues to shape-shift around the world. Taking inspiration from the Japanese avant-garde, Surrealism, Happenings, and authors such as Genet and Artaud, its influence can be seen throughout contemporary performing arts, music, and visual art practices.
This Companion places the form in historical context, documents its development in Japan and its spread around the world, and brings together the theory and the practice of this compelling dance. The interdisciplinarity evident in the volume reflects the depth and the breadth of butoh, and the editors bring specially commissioned essays by leading scholars and dancers together with translations of important early texts.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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97 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 1 s/w Zeichnung, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 97 Halftones, black and white
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Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
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1250 gr
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978-1-138-69109-4 (9781138691094)
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Bruce Baird is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
Rosemary Candelario is Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman's University, USA.
Rosemary Candelario is Associate Professor of Dance at Texas Woman's University, USA.
Content
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
A note on Japanese names and words
Introduction: dance experience, dance of darkness, global butoh: the evolution of a new dance form - Bruce Baird and Rosemary Candelario
Section 1: Butoh instigators and interlocutors
1. On the eve of the birth of ankoku butoh: postwar Japanese modern dance and Ohno Kazuo - Kuniyoshi Kazuko (translated by Bruce Baird)
2.From vodou to butoh: Hijikata Tatsumi, Katherine Dunham, and the trans-Pacific remaking of blackness - Arimitsu Michio
3. Contemporary nightmare: an avant-garde dance group dances Forbidden Colors - Mishima Yukio (translated by Bruce Baird)
4. The relationship between avant-garde dance and things - Mishima Yukio (translated by Bruce Baird)
5. Rethinking the "indigeneity" of Hijikata Tatsumi in the 1960s as a photographic negative image of Japanese dance history - Inata Naomi (translated by Bruce Baird and the author)
6. A la maison de Shibusawa: the draconian aspects of Hijikata's butoh - Robert Ono
7. Hijikata Tatsumi: burnt offering dancer - Shibusawa Tatsuhiko (translated by Robert Ono)
8. A certain kind of energy: dancing modern anxiety - Shibusawa Tatsuhiko (translated by Robert Ono)
9. Butoh and taboo - Gunji Masakatsu (translated by Jane Traynor)
10. "Inserting the hip/s" and "lowering the hip/s" excerpt from Chapter 1, "That Which Is Nanba-like" from What Are Traditional Arts? A Dialogue for Criticism and Creation - Takechi Tetsuji and Tomioka Taeko (translated and with an introductory essay by Maki Isaka)
11. The problematics of butoh and the essentialist trap - William Marotti
12. Returns and repetitions: Hijikata Tatsumi's choreographic practice as a critical gesture of temporalization - Sara Jansen
13. Ohno Kazuo: biography and methods of movement creation - Lucia Schwellinger (translated by Charlotte Marr and Rosemary Candelario)
14. What we know and what we want to know: a roundtable on butoh and neuer Tanz - Kate Elswit, Mariko Miyagawa, Eiko Otake, and Tara Rodman
15. Oikawa Hironobu: bringing Decroux and Artaud into Japanese dance practices - Yoshida Yukihiko (translated by Bruce Baird)
16. Foundations and filiations: the legacy of Artaud in Hijikata Tatsumi - Samantha Marenzi
17. Butoh's remediation and the anarchic transforming politics of the body in the 1960s - Peter Eckersall
18. Bodies at the threshold of the visible: photographic butoh - Jonathan W. Marshall
19. The book of butoh; the book of the dead - Uno Kuniichi (translated by Bruce Baird)
Section 2: The second generation
20. "Open butoh:" Dairakudakan and Maro Akaji - Tomoe Aihara (translated by Robert Ono)
21. Growing new life: Kasai Akira's butoh - Megan V. Nicely
22. Light as dust, hard as steel, fluid as snake saliva: the Butoh Body of Ashikawa Yoko - SU-EN
23. The expanding universe of butoh: the challenge of Bishop Yamada in Hoppo Butoh-ha and Shiokubi (1975) - Kosuge Hayato
24. Murobushi Ko and his challenge to butoh - Katja Centonze
25. Oscillation and regeneration: the temporal aesthetics of Sankai Juku - Iwaki Kyoko
Section 3: New sites for butoh
26. "Now we have a passport": global and local butoh - Rosemary Candelario
27. A history of French fascination with butoh - Sylviane Pages (translated by Sherwood Chen)
28. The concept of butoh in Italy, from Ohno Kazuo to Kasai Akira - Maria Pia D'Orazi
29. German butoh since the late 1980s: Tadashi Endo, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Minako Seki - Rosa van Hensbergen
30. SU-EN Butoh Company - body, nature, and the world - SU-EN
31. Butoh in Brazil: historical context and political reenactment - Christine Greiner
32. A sun more alive: butoh in Mexico - Gustavo Emilio Rosales (translated by Jordan A. Y. Smith)
33. Global butoh as experienced in San Francisco - Brechin Flournoy
34. LEIMAY, CAVE, and the New York Butoh Festival - Ximena Garnica
35. Iraqi Bodies' The Baldheaded: "butoh"-inspired Iraqi contemporary performance - J Dellecave
36. "We need to keep one eye open ...": approaching butoh at sites of personal and cultural resistance - Jeremy Neideck
Section 4: Politics, gender, identity
37. Butoh's genders: men in dresses and girl-like women - Katherine Mezur
38. Death rituals and survival acts: Hata-Kanoko's "butoh action" and alternative inter-Asian transnationalism - Chiayi Seetoo
39. When the "revolt of the flesh" becomes political protest: the nomadic tactics of butoh-inspired interventions - Carla Melo
40. Butoh beyond the body: an interview with Shakina Nayfack on transition, evolution and the spirit at war - Jacquelyn Marie Shannon
41. Critical Butoh and the colonial matrix of power - Miki Seifert
Section 5: Pedagogy and practice
42. The daily practice of Hijikata Tatsumi's apprentices from 1969 to 1978 - Caitlin Coker
43. Butoh pedagogy in historical and contemporary practice - Tanya Calamoneri
44. Waguri Yukio's Butoh Kaden: taking stock of Hijikata's butoh notation - Rosa van Hensbergen
45. A flower of butoh: my daily dance with Ohno Kazuo (1995-2012) - Maureen Momo Freehill
46. On and through the butoh body - Katherine Adamenko
47. My Dairakudakan experience - Julia A. Vessey
48. Butoh as an approach to performance in South Africa - jacki job
49. Wrecking butoh: dancing poetic shores - Bronwyn Preece
Section 6: Beyond butoh
50. Tanaka Min: the dance of life - Zack Fuller
51. Body Weather Laboratory Los Angeles: an interview with Roxanne Steinberg and Oguri - Joyce Lu
52. The cinematic forms of butoh films - Aaron Kerner
53. Locus solus - locus fracta: butoh dance as protocol for visual self-representation - Lucile Druet
54. Ohno Kazuo's lessons for a French choreographer: O Sensei by Catherine Diverres - Miyagawa Mariko
55. Michael Sakamoto and the breaks: revolt of the head (MuNK remix) - Michael Sakamoto
56. Burn butoh, start again - Shinichi Iova-Koga
Index
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
A note on Japanese names and words
Introduction: dance experience, dance of darkness, global butoh: the evolution of a new dance form - Bruce Baird and Rosemary Candelario
Section 1: Butoh instigators and interlocutors
1. On the eve of the birth of ankoku butoh: postwar Japanese modern dance and Ohno Kazuo - Kuniyoshi Kazuko (translated by Bruce Baird)
2.From vodou to butoh: Hijikata Tatsumi, Katherine Dunham, and the trans-Pacific remaking of blackness - Arimitsu Michio
3. Contemporary nightmare: an avant-garde dance group dances Forbidden Colors - Mishima Yukio (translated by Bruce Baird)
4. The relationship between avant-garde dance and things - Mishima Yukio (translated by Bruce Baird)
5. Rethinking the "indigeneity" of Hijikata Tatsumi in the 1960s as a photographic negative image of Japanese dance history - Inata Naomi (translated by Bruce Baird and the author)
6. A la maison de Shibusawa: the draconian aspects of Hijikata's butoh - Robert Ono
7. Hijikata Tatsumi: burnt offering dancer - Shibusawa Tatsuhiko (translated by Robert Ono)
8. A certain kind of energy: dancing modern anxiety - Shibusawa Tatsuhiko (translated by Robert Ono)
9. Butoh and taboo - Gunji Masakatsu (translated by Jane Traynor)
10. "Inserting the hip/s" and "lowering the hip/s" excerpt from Chapter 1, "That Which Is Nanba-like" from What Are Traditional Arts? A Dialogue for Criticism and Creation - Takechi Tetsuji and Tomioka Taeko (translated and with an introductory essay by Maki Isaka)
11. The problematics of butoh and the essentialist trap - William Marotti
12. Returns and repetitions: Hijikata Tatsumi's choreographic practice as a critical gesture of temporalization - Sara Jansen
13. Ohno Kazuo: biography and methods of movement creation - Lucia Schwellinger (translated by Charlotte Marr and Rosemary Candelario)
14. What we know and what we want to know: a roundtable on butoh and neuer Tanz - Kate Elswit, Mariko Miyagawa, Eiko Otake, and Tara Rodman
15. Oikawa Hironobu: bringing Decroux and Artaud into Japanese dance practices - Yoshida Yukihiko (translated by Bruce Baird)
16. Foundations and filiations: the legacy of Artaud in Hijikata Tatsumi - Samantha Marenzi
17. Butoh's remediation and the anarchic transforming politics of the body in the 1960s - Peter Eckersall
18. Bodies at the threshold of the visible: photographic butoh - Jonathan W. Marshall
19. The book of butoh; the book of the dead - Uno Kuniichi (translated by Bruce Baird)
Section 2: The second generation
20. "Open butoh:" Dairakudakan and Maro Akaji - Tomoe Aihara (translated by Robert Ono)
21. Growing new life: Kasai Akira's butoh - Megan V. Nicely
22. Light as dust, hard as steel, fluid as snake saliva: the Butoh Body of Ashikawa Yoko - SU-EN
23. The expanding universe of butoh: the challenge of Bishop Yamada in Hoppo Butoh-ha and Shiokubi (1975) - Kosuge Hayato
24. Murobushi Ko and his challenge to butoh - Katja Centonze
25. Oscillation and regeneration: the temporal aesthetics of Sankai Juku - Iwaki Kyoko
Section 3: New sites for butoh
26. "Now we have a passport": global and local butoh - Rosemary Candelario
27. A history of French fascination with butoh - Sylviane Pages (translated by Sherwood Chen)
28. The concept of butoh in Italy, from Ohno Kazuo to Kasai Akira - Maria Pia D'Orazi
29. German butoh since the late 1980s: Tadashi Endo, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Minako Seki - Rosa van Hensbergen
30. SU-EN Butoh Company - body, nature, and the world - SU-EN
31. Butoh in Brazil: historical context and political reenactment - Christine Greiner
32. A sun more alive: butoh in Mexico - Gustavo Emilio Rosales (translated by Jordan A. Y. Smith)
33. Global butoh as experienced in San Francisco - Brechin Flournoy
34. LEIMAY, CAVE, and the New York Butoh Festival - Ximena Garnica
35. Iraqi Bodies' The Baldheaded: "butoh"-inspired Iraqi contemporary performance - J Dellecave
36. "We need to keep one eye open ...": approaching butoh at sites of personal and cultural resistance - Jeremy Neideck
Section 4: Politics, gender, identity
37. Butoh's genders: men in dresses and girl-like women - Katherine Mezur
38. Death rituals and survival acts: Hata-Kanoko's "butoh action" and alternative inter-Asian transnationalism - Chiayi Seetoo
39. When the "revolt of the flesh" becomes political protest: the nomadic tactics of butoh-inspired interventions - Carla Melo
40. Butoh beyond the body: an interview with Shakina Nayfack on transition, evolution and the spirit at war - Jacquelyn Marie Shannon
41. Critical Butoh and the colonial matrix of power - Miki Seifert
Section 5: Pedagogy and practice
42. The daily practice of Hijikata Tatsumi's apprentices from 1969 to 1978 - Caitlin Coker
43. Butoh pedagogy in historical and contemporary practice - Tanya Calamoneri
44. Waguri Yukio's Butoh Kaden: taking stock of Hijikata's butoh notation - Rosa van Hensbergen
45. A flower of butoh: my daily dance with Ohno Kazuo (1995-2012) - Maureen Momo Freehill
46. On and through the butoh body - Katherine Adamenko
47. My Dairakudakan experience - Julia A. Vessey
48. Butoh as an approach to performance in South Africa - jacki job
49. Wrecking butoh: dancing poetic shores - Bronwyn Preece
Section 6: Beyond butoh
50. Tanaka Min: the dance of life - Zack Fuller
51. Body Weather Laboratory Los Angeles: an interview with Roxanne Steinberg and Oguri - Joyce Lu
52. The cinematic forms of butoh films - Aaron Kerner
53. Locus solus - locus fracta: butoh dance as protocol for visual self-representation - Lucile Druet
54. Ohno Kazuo's lessons for a French choreographer: O Sensei by Catherine Diverres - Miyagawa Mariko
55. Michael Sakamoto and the breaks: revolt of the head (MuNK remix) - Michael Sakamoto
56. Burn butoh, start again - Shinichi Iova-Koga
Index