Butoh Thoughts
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Butoh Thoughts
Dance is for all who desire to move expressively, with rhythm, or in the spirit of the moment. Dance is global and primal, not just for those who train to perform on stage. As somatic innovator Gabrielle Roth liked to say: “If you have a body, you are a dancer.”
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
Do you think that the Europeans have turned Butoh into something else? Into a westerner version?
M.O. – Not only European, but American and every other culture had turned Butoh into something different, it is a matter of information traveling, time passing, something dying , something being born , never is the same, never. Butoh was born from... See more
M.O. – Not only European, but American and every other culture had turned Butoh into something different, it is a matter of information traveling, time passing, something dying , something being born , never is the same, never. Butoh was born from... See more
Francisca Sousa • Butoh Thoughts
hat do you think is the most significant difference, if there’s any, between Butoh in Europe and Butoh in Japan? Do you think that Butoh practiced in Europe has the same (let’s call it) “essence”?
M.O. – Well, yes there is a difference between Butoh in Japan and the rest of world, of course if you think of the fundamental essence of this dance... See more
M.O. – Well, yes there is a difference between Butoh in Japan and the rest of world, of course if you think of the fundamental essence of this dance... See more