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 throughout the world, diversifying its aesthetic, while at the same time ...
The author of this work describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through existential and phenomenological literature on the "lived body". She draws upon the work of philosophers to describe dance through its lived ground, the human body.
A collection of essays on various critical ways to think about dance, this book includes essays on dance as the embodiment of knowledge, on feminism and cultural diversity as they relate to dance, and on science and hermeneutics in dance.
Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative reflections on memory and on the ways we perceive and construct our lives represent Sondra Fraleigh's journey toward self-definition as informed by art ...
This compact, well-illustrated and clearly written book unravels the contribution of two of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators. "Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo" is the first book to combine: an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno, extending to the larger story of butoh's international ...
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