Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo

Contents

• PREFACE TO 2018 RE-ISSUE, Sondra Fraleigh
• INTRODUCTION
• BUTOH SHAPESHIFTERS
• Kaze Daruma: the origins of butoh
• Hijikata's butoh
• Nature, mud, and butoh morphology
• Butoh alchemy in global circulation
• Hijikata: a corpse standing desperately upright
• Yoneyama Kunio
• Studying Neue Tanz
• The drug of Ohno
• Tokyo
• New names
• Dancing life: Ohno Kazuo
• Born to dance
• Together and apart
• Together again
• Ohno's international stage
• Ohno is a bridge
• Butoh, community, and healing
• THE WORDS OF HIJIKATA AND OHNO
• Hijikata-speak
• The criminal and the fool: writing/living darkness
• Body as spirit: writing/speaking the butoh body
• Being a corpse
• Hijikata's butoh-fu: what is an image?
• Words that dance: Ohno's images
• Spiritual darkness: inside Ohno's studio and Konpaku
• How Ohno prepares: words for the speech of the body
• The Ishikari river's hooked-nose salmon
• Body as universe: Kazuo and Yoshito speak of love and care
• DANCES OF DEATH, SACRIFICE, AND SPIRIT
• Two butohists: why they dance the way they do
• Dance as experience: shedding the social body
• Challenging modernization
• Kinjiki (Forbidden Colors, 1959)
• Barairo Dansu (Rose Colored Dance, 1965)
• Nikutai No Hanran (Rebellion of the Body, 1968)
• Note on Natsu No Arashi (Summer Storm, 1973)
• La Argentina Sho (Admiring La Argentina, 1977)
• Suiren (Water Lilies, 1987)
• Interview with Ohno Yoshito - on Suiren
• The future of butoh
• DANCE EXPERIENCES
• Introduction to metamorphic explorations
• Nakajima Natsu: becoming nothing/ becoming something
• Ohno Yoshito: the patience of not starting
• Yoshioka Yumiko: body resonance
• Morita Itto and Takeuchi Mika: psychosomatics of butoh
• Takenouchi Atsushi's Jinen Butoh
• Frances Barbe and the practice of butoh-fu
• Harada Nobuo: butoh is everything
• Waguri Yukio and Butoh-Kaden CD-Rom
• English glossary of terms Japanese glossary of terms