Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baird, B

Titel

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

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shocking and serene. Since then, though interest has grown exponentially, and people all over the world are drawn to butoh's ability to enact paradox and contradiction, audiences are less knowledgeable about the contributions and innovations of the founder of butoh. Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh traces the rollicking history of the creation and initial maturation of butoh, and locates Hijikata's performances within the intellectual, cultural, and economic ferment of Japan from the sixties to the eighties. 02 02 Presents the performance art 'butoh' as an evolving artistic bodily response to the Japanese society of the 1960s-1980s - a society characterized by conflict and proliferating information. 31 02 Presents the performance art 'butoh' as an evolving artistic bodily response to the Japanese society of the 1960s-1980s - a society characterized by conflict and proliferating information 13 02 Bruce Bairdis an assistant professor of Asian Language and Literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 19 02 A FIRST: The first book in English to treat butoh from the perspective of Japanese Studies and Japanese intellectual history. PRIMARY SOURCES: Also first book in English to study butoh using Japanese sources including the notebooks, essays, and manifestos of Hijikata himself. RELEVANT: Situates butoh within the development of the wider theater and dance worlds. 08 02 "The book is a veritable treasure trove of information and reflects the many years it took to complete the project . . . it is also a book which rewards the curious reader who wants to learn about postwar Japan from a different perspective." - Tokyo Notice Board "A meticulously researched description and analysis of Hijikata's most significant choreographic and textual productions . . . Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh is a major contribution to the Anglophone literature on butoh , particularly through its extensive referencing and explication of archival materials and texts not available outside of Japan. For scholars of postwar avant-garde Japanese arts, Baird's work brings dance fully into the conversation, particularly with literature and visual art. For butoh dancers, this book is significant for the way Baird challenges the mystification and mythologizing that has grown up around Hijikata (and was indeed often generated by Hijikata himself) . . . Baird presents his readers with the many socially constructed layers of Hijikata that influenced and were reflected in his productions (e.g., the Tohoku of his childhood, Tokyo in the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese and European surrealists and avant-garde artists), while leaving open the possibility of other interpretations. This openness to interpretation is Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh 's greatest gift." - Asian Theater Journal 04 02 Introduction: And, And, And   Outline of the Book   Forbidden Eros and Evading Force: Hijikata's Early Years   A Story of Dances that Sustain Enigma   Pivoting Panels and Slashing Space: Rebellion and Identity   My Mother Tied Me on Her Back: Story of Smallpox    The Possibility Body: Embodying the Other, Negotiating the World   Metaphorical Miscegenation in Memoirs: Hijikata Tatsumi in the Information Age   Epilogue: The Emaciated Body in the World