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	YouTube - Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
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		Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis, 1997 (excerpt)
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=DG8FHvqaaYE (296 words)

	What Is Butoh?
		Butoh dance is a performing art that originated in Post World-War II Japan and was first performed in 1959.
		The most unconventional aspect of Butoh is its movement and the preparation that the dancer undergoes to prepare for the dance.
		An excellent physical state and great strength and agility do not figure as highly in Butoh as they do in many other forms of western dance, and, though a dancer may be excellent in ballet, modern, jazz, or other physically demanding forms of dance, it is no guarantee of ability in Butoh.
	www.butoh.net /define.html (1117 words)

	ArtandCulture Movement: Butoh (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Butoh cannot be spoken because it is that which happens within the silences of noise, within the spaces of the world.
		There’s a certain ever-readiness, a keen attentiveness, in the Butoh stance: the dancer moves with purpose, according to hidden or obscured dictates, according to the demands of the body in the world, according to the world as it emerges as pure force.
		Butoh is defined by the slow tension of the now, the calm of a universe inevitably unfolding, poised to live the odd rumblings of the universe.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=891 (535 words)

	About Butoh (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Butoh burst upon the world in 1959 in Tokyo in a performance by Tatsumi Hijikata and Yoshito Ono that was immediately labeled scandalous by Japanese society.
		Butoh's founders, Kazuo Ono and Hijikata, trained in Western dance and in the German Neue Tanze tradition.
		Unlike most butoh artists, his work is full of emotion, yet still rooted in the vivid internal imagery that is the hallmark of the form.
	home.earthlink.net /~bdenatale/AboutButoh.html (652 words)

	Butoh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Butoh (sometimes written butô) is the collective name for a diverse range of techniques and motivations for dance inspired by the Ankoku-Butoh movement.
		Based on the novel of the same name by Yukio Mishima, the piece explored the taboo of homosexuality and ended with the smothering of a live chicken between the legs of Yoshito Ohno (Kazuo Ohno's son) and Hijikata chasing Yoshito off the stage in darkness.
		A Butoh performance choreographed by Yoshito Ohno appears at the beginning of the Tokyo section of Hal Hartley's 1996 film Flirt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Butoh (801 words)

	HeadLight Journal: Butoh and the Art of Transformation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Butoh is like this blank piece of white paper," I said, picking it up out of the debris near my feet and throwing it out in front of me. Wind through the window flung it in chaotic circles, and then it blew away and flittered in a small corner at the back window.
		Butoh dancers have got to position their bodies so no one is able to guess their next movement...
		Butoh onomatopoeic language is designed to capture a physical sense rather than merely imitate or refer to a concept by means of sound.
	www.headlightjournal.com /essays/butoh/butoh_contents_page/butoh_contents.html (2615 words)

	Don McLeod's Butoh Theatre
		Butoh is a return to a more primal or natural way of movement like that of a child or animal.
		Butoh is a performing art which started off as a rebellious dance form in the 60's in Tokyo.
		Butoh cannot be defined by one specific style, but it is up to the dancer, choreographer and artist to define their work.
	www.fremontcentretheatre.com /butoh.htm (803 words)

	Academy of Experimental Dance Theater "BUTOH"butoh dance \| butoh school\| butoh schools \| butoh dance school\| ...
		Butoh translates to "walk on the road with the same attitude as the Samurai".
		It is said that, in butoh, the dancer must train himself the same way on all three levels of existence.
		The dancer may achieve a high standard as a performer by training only the physical, but he can reach this high standard and way beyond with less effort, less struggle, and, if any at all, less injuries by integrating the landscapes of the mind and the spirit as active parts of his daily discipline.
	www.butohschool.com /index.htm (224 words)

	Butoh
		We are in the universe of butoh, the theatrical, ghoulish genre of dance that has, in its four decades of existence, become Japan's biggest contribution to the world of contemporary dance.
		Butoh, a word comprising the Chinese characters for "dance" and "step," is a strikingly visual artform in which the butoh-ka (dancers) are often a mere loincloth away from total nudity, their whole bodies smeared in macabre white body paint.
		Butoh has raised such imponderables since it arose from the rubble of postwar Japan, in the process pushing the envelope of dance.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /newsheadlines/butohleft.htm (1734 words)

	Invitation to Butoh and Butoh Blanc (White Butoh)
		Butoh charged through Japan's avant-garde scene, fueled by the tremendous power of several dancers, first and foremost Tatsumi Hijikata with his 'ankoku butoh.' The 1980s saw butoh dancers (including myself) developing and expanding their work not only in Japan but also in Europe, the United States and, indeed, all over the world.
		Butoh dancers have always referred to the body with that immanent 'original landscape' ('dance') as 'nikutai,' to be distinguished from the physical body, or flesh, as a biological entity.
		White Butoh's thrust, however, is to go to the very bottom of the essence of butoh which is prior to forms and movements; namely, to pursue the realities of life.
	www.iwanabutoh.com /invitation_hakutoue.html (916 words)

	Waring article
		However, when a person attempts to obtain the stage of a "butoh body," it is important for the individual to find his/her own reality of how the body exists before transcending into a mental state of nothingness and a physical state of liberation (3).
		Butoh is sometimes characterized as having "intense expressiveness, distorted movements, and grotesque imagery.
		Butoh's use of continual metamorphosis to confront the audience with the disappearance of the individual subject by refusing to let any dancer remain a single identifiable character, is another strategy that confronts the modern myth of the individual.
	www.sbc.edu /honors/HJSpr03/Waring.htm (1775 words)

	butoh Notes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		About the only thing every butoh artist has in common is a dogged determination to find his or her own way.
		A butoh artist would be more likely to create the experience of being water vividly in his or her internal imagination and then let the body be free to respond as it will to the impulses created by the image.
		The first is that much butoh movement is derived from an inner image that the dancer holds during the dance.
	home.earthlink.net /~bdenatale/butohnotes.html (446 words)

	II Journal: Sankai Juku: Butoh Dance from Japan
		Butoh has a scant thirty-seven year history as an avant-garde form of dance theater, and as such it continues to defy definition.
		Sankai Juku, the Butoh troupe most widely seen outside Japan, is known for a style that relies more on tranquillity than some of the group's more frenetic peers.
		Despite the fact that Butoh's pioneers tried to distance themselves from Western modern dance, the influences of German Neue Tanz ("new dance") and 1960's "happenings" were evident in Hijikata's early Butoh works.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol4no2/sanjuk.html (1480 words)

	Butoh Discussions
		Butoh has more forms in it, such as body shape that are distinctly Butoh where Action Theater doesn’t have that.
		Butoh dance, because it goes into the darkness, is different from other forms in it's approach, but in the end it's just life.
		Some said that Butoh is very new and there was response (also passionate) that Butoh was very old and not to be mixed with the "avant garde." Any position anyone could take, there was an opposite response.
	www.inkboat.com /inkextra/butohdisc.html (2086 words)

	Butoh (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Butoh is an avant garde performance art that has its origins in Japan in the 1960's.
		With butoh, the performer must return to a place before thought, a place where the body and mind become a blank canvas.
		Butoh is an earth dance, a dance of darkness and light, a dance of the human spirit defining itself through memory, tension and release.
	www.meltmagazine.com /4_2001/page10.htm (784 words)

	Ann Daly: Darkness into Light: A Decade in the West Transforms a Butoh Troupe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BUTOH hit New York in the fall of 1985, like a thunder bolt from the gods.
		"Anokoku butoh," as founder Tatsumi Hijikata named it, was literally a "dance of darkness," developed not as a technique or a vocabulary to be mastered, but as a practice to be lived.
		For Hijikata, butoh was a transgressive gesture, one that aimed to surpass, and displace, the limits of acceptable social behavior.
	www.anndaly.com /articles/butoh.html (507 words)

	Butoh: A Great Teacher of Self (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although articles on the history of Butoh will go further in explaining the overall factors which caused this dance to come into existence, Kazuo Ohno's particular motivations and experiences are integral.
		Butoh is referred to as the dance of darkness.
		Since then butoh is called shocking, provocative, physical, spiritual, erotic, grotesque, violent, cosmic, nihilistic, cathartic, mysterious (5).
	www.shanmonster.com /rs/project/butoh.html (1072 words)

	Xeper - the Ankokumon Pylon of the Temple of Set (TOS)
		Butoh, is many things, many things to many individuals- for butoh comes from and is within each individual.
		First and foremost what is central to butoh is the struggle of the spirit against limiting factors of the body and the self.
		Butoh is, every moment with in us- however 90% of the people out there are unaware of this- they remain the spiritless corpses that make up the world of the dead we live in.
	ankokumon.chaosmagic.com /butoh.htm (887 words)

	Dança Butoh (Site not responding. Last check: )
		O Butoh recupera a vitalidade e a força do corpo, de um corpo domesticado pelas atividades cotidianas e esmagado pelas regras estabelecidas.
		The melancholic make-up, the white color on the whole body, does with that the muscles are enhanced, and the expressive forms delineated in essential movements, be valued by the absence of hair.
		Butoh recovers the vitality and the force of the body, of a domesticated body for the daily activities and squeezed by the established rules.
	www.butoh.com.br /taxon/dancabutoh.html (1052 words)

	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - DANCE
		Tatsumi Hijikata, Butoh’s founder and primary teacher, cultivated an atmosphere in which the body was ruthlessly trained to surrender itself to the dance, creating a dancer that appeared to transcend earthly being.
		Butoh was not made for storage like an ancient relic in a museum and so it should not be practiced as a mere style.
		Butoh is a form of dance that allows the advent of an in between space, where a soul can be set loose to chisel these inadequate words, these impossible surfaces.
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /dance/feb04/butoh.html (1505 words)

	Don McLeod - History of Butoh
		Butoh is an avant garde performance art, that has its origins in Japan in the 1960's.
		This was the spark that gave birth to butoh.
		Butoh is a hybrid form of art, incorporating elements of theatre, dance, mime, Noh, Kabuki and at times the Chinese arts of Chi kung and Tai chi.
	www.zenbutoh.com /history.htm (1300 words)

	Austin Downtown Arts Magazine, Dance Butoh -- Dance of Darkness?
		Butoh doesn't shirk from exploring unpleasant human feelings, which probably explains why it can be so disturbing to watch.
		Butoh was born in a turbulent time, when Japan was struggling with its cultural identity.
		Crable enjoys teaching Butoh, despite the risk that some of her students might run off and form inferior Butoh troupes without fully understanding and respecting the dance.
	www.diversearts.org /adta_dance.html (1308 words)

	RDT News, An Evening of Butoh
		Butoh developed in the late 1950s as dancer Tatsumi Hijikata sought to resist the unquestioned influence of Western aesthetics and to express a modern dance form grounded in a Japanese sense of body and soul.
		An Evening of Butoh is the closing event in a week-long workshop for the University of Utah on the techniques, philosophy and choreography of the dance style.
		This performance is made possible through a partnership with the University of Utah and with the support of Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks, the Utah Arts Council and the Salt Lake City Arts Council.
	www.xmission.com /~rdt/news/2001-2002/butoh.html (262 words)

	OUTLINES OF BUTOH
		Butoh originated in early 1960s and is classified commonly as a new style of contemporary dance in Japan.
		However, Ankoku Butoh exhibited early by Tastumi Hijikata was totally different from all sort of dances rooted in European cultures and modernism.
		What made this original butoh unique was its criteria of beauty, which nether belong to those of classic beauty, effective typically on ballet, nor to the ideas of modern expression.
	homepage2.nifty.com /abeni/outlines.htm (520 words)

	DANCE OF DARKNESS
		Butoh is more than East Asian aesthetics or a language of form or shape.
		Butoh is to become the other, not to mean the other.
		Butoh of the beginning has been pure provocation, resistance against the cultural establishment and the social system.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/postmodern/25/dance_of_darkness.htm (285 words)

	REVIEW: V/A - "Butoh"
		There are various versions of Butoh as a dance form, but for the purpose of this CD review a little preface to the ingredients utilized to create this compilation is in order.
		Butoh, translated, means "dance step," which is meant to incorporate the connotation of a dance of darkness.
		That being said, Butoh actually has a number of tracks that would work in a dance club provided the clientele stopped requesting all this happy, poppy crap and took their neon lighted necklaces to the clubs that catered to that sound instead.
	www.legendsmagazine.net /113/butoh.htm (1298 words)

	Atsushi Takenouchi - JINEN BUTOH / PROFILE
		He has been working on his own Jinen Butoh since 1986 and created solos "Tanagokoro", "Ginkan", "Itteki" as a universal expression of nature, earth, and ancient times and his impressions of the moment, formulated from the people around him, and the environment.
		Butoh and free music improvisation with Sharif Sehnaoui (electric guitar), Jean Borde (contrabass), Thierry Madiot (bass trombone), Christine Sehnaoui (saxophone), Hiroko Komiya (stone, shell, voice) at Les Voutes, and at La Guillotine in Paris.
		JINEN Butoh workshop project and Solo Butoh "KI ZA MU" in Butoh festival Poland-Japan Dialogue of cultures At the Cultural Centre KLUB "ZAK" (Gdansk/Poland).
	www.jinen-butoh.com /profile_e.html (1337 words)

	Shinonome Butoh
		The three dancers absorbed all the essence of butoh with their flexible physique and curiosity peculiar to young people.
		When Hijikata started butoh and was called "traitor of the time" or "avant-gardist," those three women were not born yet.
		Butoh used to be powerful and sensational, and was a shock in those days,
	www.shinonomebutoh.com /e_1_why.html (212 words)

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