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Hijikata
Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo (Routledge Performance Practitioners)
by Sondra Horton
· 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.
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Ankoku
Butô: The Premodern and Postmodern Influences on the Dance
of Utter Darkness (Cornell University East Asia Papers,
No. 49) (Cornell University East Asia Papers, No 49) by Susan
Blakeley Klein, Susan B. Klein
A brief introduction to the history, philosophy, and techniques
of the Japanese avant-garde dance movement, Ankoku Butô.
Evoking images of grotesque beauty, reveling in the seamy underside
of human behavior, Butô dance groups such as Sankai Juku
and Dai Rakuda-kan have performed to wide critical and popular
acclaim, making Butô one of the most influential new forces
in the dance world today.
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Kazuo
Ohno's World: From Without & Within
by Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Toshio Mizohata (Introduction), John
Barrett (Translator)
KAZUO
OHNO, born in 1906, is Japan's living master of Butoh; his dances
and workshops have been presented around the world. His son, YOSHITO
OHNO, has both performed in and directed his father's performances.
JOHN BARRETT participated in Kazuo Ohno's workshops between 1985
and 1990. TOSHIO MIZOHATA is the Ohno's manager and lighting artist.
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Dancing
into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan by Sondra Horton Fraleigh
"Dance
and the Lived Body" author Sondra Horton Fraleigh expresses
her experience of watching and dancing Butô. Her book is
composed as a diary of separate essays, wherein she weaves together
elements of spirituality, Zen, mythology, motherhood, birth, friendship,
love, and earth.
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Butoh:
Dance of the Dark Soul (out of print) by Mark Holborn
(Editor), Ethan Hoffman (Editor)
A rare, now
expensive, gem..
In Butoh:
Dance of the Dark Soul, Ethan Hoffman creates virtually a new
genre of photographic theatre and gives us an invaluable contribution
to the literature of contemporary dance and theatre. The performers
featured include Kazuo Ohno, Yoko Ashikawa, Akaji Maro and the
group Dai Rakuda Kan, Min Tanaka, and many others.
Mark Holborn's
essay is based on extensive interviews with Hijikata and other
major Butoh pioneers
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Kazuo
Ohno: El Último Emperador de la Danza (Spanish) by Gustavo
Collini Sartor
It is
a book directed to the public in general be it from the great
visual impact of its photographs or from its text which brings
us near the world of the philosophy of life of master Kazuo Ohno.
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Butoh
Kaden CD Yukio
Waguri worked with Hijikata in the 1970's and created this fascinating
and beautiful CD ROM demonstrating Hijikata choreographic method
during that period. Costs around ¥9540/ $98 |
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(Rare) Butoh:
Dance at the Millennial Edge |
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(Rare) Butoh:
Shades of Darkness by by Jean Viala and Nourit Masson-Sekine
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(Rare)
[BUTOH DANCE] Three Decades of Butoh Experiment
Hijikata Tatsumi |
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