Bonarjee, Dominique Savitri. 2024. Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367631192 [Book]

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Abstract or Description

This monograph explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach.

The book is a gathering of seminal artistic voices – Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Moe Yamamoto, Masaki Iwana, Ko Murobushi, Yukio Suzuki, Takao Kawaguchi, Yuko Kaseki, and the philosopher, Kuniichi Uno. These conversations happened during an extended research trip I made to Japan to understand the context and circumstances that engendered Butoh. Alongside these exchanges are my reflections on Butoh’s complex history. These are primarily informed by my pedagogical and performance encounters with the artists I met during this time, rather than a theoretical analysis. Through the words of these dancers, I investigate Butoh’s tendency to evade categorization. Butoh’s artistic legacy of bodily rebellion, plurality of authorship, and fluidity of form seems prescient and feels more relevant in contemporary times than ever before.

This book is intended as a practitioner's guide for dancers, artists, students, and scholars with an interest in non-Western dance and dance history, postmodern performance, and Japanese arts and culture.

Item Type:	Book
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003112211
Additional Information:	“This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in ‘Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer’ on 31 October 2023, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Butoh-as-Heard-by-a-Dancer/Bonarjee/p/book/9780367631192. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.”
Keywords:	butoh, Butoh, postwar, Japan, avantgarde, Tatsumi Hjikata, dance, revolt
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Date:	2024
Item ID:	34815
Date Deposited:	13 Feb 2024 11:15
Last Modified:	14 Feb 2024 11:35
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34815

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