Butoh as Heard by a Dancer

Episode 2: Language & Imagery in Butoh


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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



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Butoh as Heard by a DancerBy Dominique Savitri Bonarjee