In Episode 2 of the Butoh Mutations podcast, Elspeth C. and Dominique Savitri B. discuss the use of language in the 1970s' choreographic phase of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh developments. How can sensorial poetry work as a device for drawing out the 'uncanny', and as a way to glitch habitaul thought patterns and 'stop making sense'?

Butoh Mutations is an artistic community somatics project which explores postwar Japanese Butoh dance's legacy in the context of contemporary technologies, discourse and crisis.

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Music by Yas Kaz

Excerpt from an interview with Natsu Nakajima

In this very first episode of the podcast, artist and author Dominique Savitri Bonarjee and dance researcher Elspeth Chan talk about the legacy of postwar Japanese Butoh with reference to the book 'Butoh as Heard by a Dancer' (Routledge 2024). They explore what Butoh 'mutations' means as a contemporary physical and spiritual practice, the COLLAPSE dance project, the significance of lotus flowers and Butoh utopias...

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