Bodily Imagination in Butoh Dance

Towards an Anthropology with Art for Creativity and Healing
1. Auflage 2028
ISBN: 978-1-032-28478-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception

This book offers an anthropological study of butoh dance as an artistic somatic practice which can be oriented toward self-knowledge and transformation, for creativity and healing. Based on immersive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Japan and the UK, it reflects on the use of butoh as a tool for creative expression but also to engage with the daily question of what it is be alive. The book examines butoh practitioners’ notions and experiences of dancing vis-à-vis the author’s own creative inquiries as an anthropologist-cum-butoh practitioner. Paola Esposito argues that, through the intertwining of sensory perception and imagination, butoh practice can be an art of inquiry into one’s lived body. Detailing elements of training and performance through an ‘anthropology with art’ approach, the volume highlights distinctive modalities of ‘thinking in movement’ through butoh as mediated by techniques which support the exploration of mimetic and metamorphic potentialities of the human body.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Esposito, Paola

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Towards an anthropology with butoh dance  2. Knowing the body from the inside: Kinaesthetic imagination and bodily thinking in butoh dance  3. Socio-sensory aspects of Café Reason butoh practice: modulating the dancing body through intermodal kinaesthesia  4. A kinaesthetic eye, body fragmentation, and sensory montages in a butoh dance class 5. Mimesis and metamorphosis in butoh dance: reshaping the body with words and images  6. Un-civilising the body: synchronizing and enmeshing through butoh  7. Dancing illusions: A Butoh-with-Anthropology Assemblage (Homage to Salvador Dalí)  8. Reimagining the body-with-chronic pain through an anthropology with butoh dance: from bodily hylomorphism to somatic metamorphogenesis  9. From forms to dreams: the imaginative expanse of self-perception through butoh dance

Über Autor(innen)

Paola Esposito is a Departmental Lecturer in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.