Rotie, Marie-Gabrielle. 2023. 'Becoming Nothing: Butoh and the use of Poetic Textual Scores or Eating the darkness, in the mud of the self'. In: Performing Scores / Scoring Performance. Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom 11 - 12 July 2023. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata created a revolutionary system for both improvisation and choreography working with impossible or surreal image 'poems' to provoke physical and unconscious movement that could then be summoned and remembered for performance purposes. As a European movement artist and visual artist who has specialised in Butoh since 1994 I will analysis examples of the process of generating and performing Butoh-fu scoring and how I have used this across solo, ensemble and commercial applications including for Hollywood actors in the recent blockbuster film The Northman directed by Robert Eggers (2022). The Butoh-fu deliberately presents impossibility as a starting point for physical investigations, to detour habitual movement. The methodology seeks to work counter to the conditioned or dance technique body and to search for something hidden, buried or forgotten. The task of becoming the image, is quietly revolutionary in the disregard for aesthetic coherence or notions of beauty and returns us to the body on the hairlines between appearing and disappearing.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Theatre and Performance (TAP)
Dates:	Date Event 12 July 2023 Completed
Event Location:	Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Date range:	11 - 12 July 2023
Item ID:	35599
Date Deposited:	20 Mar 2024 11:43
Last Modified:	20 Mar 2024 11:51
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35599

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