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Book Announcement: The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance.

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Paula

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance Edited by Bruce Baird, Rosemary Candelario The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh. Originating in Japan in the 1960s, butoh was a major innovation … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: A History of Japanese Theatre

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Paula

We are  delighted to announce the publication by Cambridge of A History of Japanese Theatre, edited by Jonah Salz. Featuring chapters by fifty international experts, including fifteen Japanese scholars, this book is the first in English since Benito Ortolani’s 1991 … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Paula

Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History Bruce Baird Palgrave Macmillan, January 2012 ISBN: 978-0-230-12040-2, ISBN10: 0-230-12040-7, 6.000 x 9.250 inches, 310 pages, Includes 59 pgs illus, Hijikata Tatsumi’s explosive … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Avant-gardes in Japan

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Paula

Avant-gardes in Japan. Anniversary of Futurism and Butoh: Performing Arts and Cultural Practices between Contemporariness and Tradition edited by Katja Centonze (Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2010) ISBN: 978-88-7543-293-5 Please visit the webpage: http://www.cafoscarina.it/default2.asp?id=417 This collection of essays examines Japanese avant-garde expressions, the … Continue reading →

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Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Paula

May 20-22, 2011 University of California, Los Angeles Despite Butoh‘s 50 year history, much of the current scholarly work in Japan and in North America still focuses narrowly on Butoh’s co-founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo, or worse, assimilates Butoh … Continue reading →

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