Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-57279-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 215 g

Reihe: Routledge Performance Practitioners

Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre’s most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo combines:

• an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno, extending to the larger story of butoh’s international assimilation

• an exploration of the impact of the social and political issues of post-World War II Japan on the aesthetic development of butoh

• metamorphic dance experiences that students of butoh can explore

• a glossary of English and Japanese terms.

As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraleigh, Sondra

Nakamura, Tamah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Geschichte des Tanzes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE TO 2018 RE-ISSUE, Sondra Fraleigh

INTRODUCTION

BUTOH SHAPESHIFTERS

Kaze Daruma: the origins of butoh

Hijikata’s butoh

Nature, mud, and butoh morphology

Butoh alchemy in global circulation

Hijikata: a corpse standing desperately upright

Yoneyama Kunio

Studying Neue Tanz

The drug of Ohno

Tokyo

New names

Dancing life: Ohno Kazuo

Born to dance

Together and apart

Together again

Ohno’s international stage

Ohno is a bridge

Butoh, community, and healing

THE WORDS OF HIJIKATA AND OHNO

Hijikata-speak

The criminal and the fool: writing/living darkness

Body as spirit: writing/speaking the butoh body

Being a corpse

Hijikata’s butoh-fu: what is an image?

Words that dance: Ohno’s images

Spiritual darkness: inside Ohno’s studio and Konpaku

How Ohno prepares: words for the speech of the body

The Ishikari river’s hooked-nose salmon

Body as universe: Kazuo and Yoshito speak of love and care



DANCES OF DEATH, SACRIFICE, AND SPIRIT

Two butohists: why they dance the way they do

Dance as experience: shedding the social body

Challenging modernization

Kinjiki (Forbidden Colors, 1959)

Barairo Dansu (Rose Colored Dance, 1965)

Nikutai No Hanran (Rebellion of the Body, 1968)

Note on Natsu No Arashi (Summer Storm, 1973)

La Argentina Sho (Admiring La Argentina, 1977)

Suiren (Water Lilies, 1987)

Interview with Ohno Yoshito – on Suiren

The future of butoh



DANCE EXPERIENCES

Introduction to metamorphic explorations

Nakajima Natsu: becoming nothing/ becoming something

Ohno Yoshito: the patience of not starting

Yoshioka Yumiko: body resonance

Morita Itto and Takeuchi Mika: psychosomatics of butoh

Takenouchi Atsushi’s Jinen Butoh

Frances Barbe and the practice of butoh-fu

Harada Nobuo: butoh is everything

Waguri Yukio and Butoh-Kaden CD-Rom

English glossary of terms Japanese glossary of terms

Über Autor(innen)

Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus of dance and somatic studies at the State University of New York at Brockport. She chaired the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport and has been a Faculty Exchange Scholar for the State University of New York. Her innovative choreography has been seen in theaters in New York, Germany, and Japan, and she is often a guest lecturer in Europe, America, and Asia. Fraleigh is the founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute for the study of dance and movement therapy, a member school of ISMETA, International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.

Tamah Nakamura is a professor at Chikushi Jogakuen University, Fukuoka Japan. Her areas of expertise are contemporary Japan, popular culture and gender. Research interests include artistic inquiry, and butoh. She has published articles and presented on butoh in Japan and internationally.