A History of Butô

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Prologue and Introduction
2. Hijikata Tatsumi
3. Ashikawa Yoko
4. Maro Akaji
5. Kobayashi Saga
6. Interlude: Cabaret
7. Interlude: Buto's Success in France
8. Ono Kazuo
9. Carlotta Ikeda
10. Yoshioka Yumiko
11. Kasai Akira
12. Amagatsu Ushio
13. Tanaka Min
14. Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Butô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Butô a new account of a crucial and influential performance art of the latter half of the 20th century. Tracing the performances and techniques of ten of the most important names in the first and second generation of butô, including Hijikata Tatsumi, Maro Akaji, Carlotta Ikeda, and Kobayashi Saga, as well as following its migration abroad to France and elsewhere, The History of Butô puts on display the creativity of the founders as well as the variety of directions taken by subsequent dancers. In addition, this book places these choreographer/dancers at the center of many of our time's most important issues, demonstrating the importance and relevance of their reflections around the relationship between humans, technology and new media, and the status of gender and ethnicity in Japan, Europe, and the world. Baird guides us through all of this with an approachable, expansive view of an artform with which he is intimately and uniquely familiar.

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In this book, Baird provides refreshingly frank description and analysis of their artistic and pedagogical practice centered on key themes such as gender and sexuality and the relationship between the individual and the social world. Offering what may be a concession to the interests of the average Japanese studies undergraduate, Baird also relates butô to contemporary Japanese otaku culture and the world of video games...Students and scholars of dance and dancers themselves will find this a compelling read

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