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
“ Butoh dance conjures up a universe of the unconscious, the primal, the dark, the grotesque, mud, insects, and death. Performances characteristically show slow and cyclical time dimensions; it is a dance expression that evokes light and growth but also death and decay. Along with the taboos associated with this aspect of existence, there is a... See more
Butoh Thoughts
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