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Dancing into darkness : Butoh, Zen and Japan / Fraleigh, Sandra Horton 1999  Book
Fraleigh, Sandra Horton Book
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Publication Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.
Description xiii, 272pSilver spine
Summary/Abstract 'Dancing into darkness' is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for this art form, as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as an audience member to that of assimilation as a student. As a student of Zen and Butoh, Fraleigh witnesses her own artistic and personal transformation through essays, poems, interviews, and reflections spanning twelve years of study, much of it in Japan. Numerous performance photographs and original calligraphy by Fraleigh's Zen teacher Shodo Akane illuminate her words. The pieces of 'Dancing into darkness' cross boundaries, just as Butoh anticipates a growing global amalgamation. "Butoh, also known as "dance of darkness," is a postmodern dance form that began in Japan as an effort to recover the primal body, or "the body that has not been robbed," as butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata put it. Butoh has become increasingly popular in the United States and throughout the world, diversifying its aesthetic, while at the same time asserting the power of its spiritual foundations."
Contents Forgotten garden : Natsu Nakajima, performance The marble bath : Takayama Ryokan, poetry My mother : Kazuo Ohno, dance class Shibui and the sublime : Sankai Juku, performance My mother's face : Natsu Nakajima, workshop Shards : Saburo Teshigawara, performance Empty land : Natsu Nakajima, performance American mother and Shinto : Ohno Village, travels Liebe Susanne Linke and Toru Iwashita, performances Beginner's body : Yoko Ashikawa, dance class Tree installation : Min Tanaka, performance Amazing grace : Kazuo Ohno, performance Hot spring : Hakone Yumoto, poetry The waters of life : Kazuo Ohno, dance class How I got the name "Bright Road Friend" : Shodo Akane, Zen The existential answer : Nario Goda, interview Hokohtai, the walking body : Yoko Ashikawa, performance Dance and Zen, Kyo Ikiru : Shodo Akane, Zen prose and haiku on Japan, poetry Postbutoh Chalk : Anamirl Van der Pluijm, performance Dust and breath : Sankai Juku, performance and poetry The hanging body : Joan Laage, performance Zen and Wabi-Sabi Taste : Setsuko Yamada, performance The community body : Akira Kasai and Yumiko Yoshioka
Standard Number 9780822940982 Hb.
Key Words IBDP  ;  Theatre arts  ;  Butoh  ;  Dance - Japan  ;  Zen arts - Japan 
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Kazuo Ohno's world from Without and Within / Ohno, Kazuo; Ohno, Yoshito; Barrett, John(Tr.); Mizohata, Toshio(Intr.) 2004  Book
Ohno, Kazuo Book
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Publication Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
Description xviii, 323pBrown spine
Summary/Abstract Kazuo Ohno is the most celebrated performer of the generation of butoh dancers who emerged from Japan in the latter half of the 20th century and who influenced contemporary American dance. An artist whose devotion to dance is so great that he continues to perform despite his 97 years, Ohno remains a daring pioneer who persistently explores the possibilities offered by a living body. Translated for the first time in English, "Kazuo Ohno's World: from without and within" brings together two distinct yet inherently related works. Part 1, Food For the Soul, is a series of interviews with Yoshito Ohno, his son and co-performer. Juxtaposed with over 120 black and white photographs from the Ohno Dance Studio archives, Yoshito Ohno's observations reveal a complex and compelling figure of his father, who radically transformed the Japanese performing landscape. "The second work, Workshop Words, is a collection of extracts from Ohno's talks to his workshop students between the late 1970s and 1997. Presented in the form of aphorisms - some of them no longer than a single line - they encapsulate Ohno's very individual stance on life and dance. Not only do they achieve Ohno's educational purpose, they also help to lay bare the inner workings of this singularly remarkable man. Illustrations complete this nuanced profile of an outstanding 20th century performer
Contents PART 1 Food for the soul ​ by Yoshito Ohno The dancing body Performance Beginnings and family life Admiring La Argentina PART 2 Workshop words​ by Kazuo Ohno.
Standard Number 0819566942 Pb.
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