The originating impulses of Ankoku Butoh: towards an understanding of the trans-cultural embodiment of Tatsumi Hijikata's dance of darkness

Title: The originating impulses of Ankoku Butoh: towards an understanding of the trans-cultural embodiment of Tatsumi Hijikata's dance of darkness
Creator: Truter, Orlando Vincent
Subject: Hijikata, Tatsumi, 1928-1986
Subject: Butō
Subject: Modern dance -- Japan
Subject: Dancers -- Japan
Subject: Choreographers
Date: 2008
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:2153
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004454
Description: From Introduction: Ankoku Butoh is a performing art devised in Japan in the wake of the Second World War by the dancer and choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata (born Akita, 1928; died Tokyo, 1986). A highly aesthetic and subversive performing art, Butoh often evokes "images of decay, of fear and desperation, images of eroticism, ecstasy and stillness." Typically performed with a white layer of paint covering the entire body of the dancer, Butoh is visually characterized by continual transformations between postures, distorted physical and facial expressions, and an emphasis on condensed and visually slow movements. Some of the general characteristics of Butoh performance include "a particular openness to working with the subtle energy in the body; the malleability of time; the power of the grotesque."
Format: 113 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Drama
Language: English
Rights: Truter, Orlando Vincent

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