East and its dances...( Dance Forms #1)

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enigmatic_zephy

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Posted: 12 years ago

For others who may be interested..

Think while JDJ is on, its a good idea I revive my initial threads on dance forms..

The idea is to talk abt dance, explore new forms and today I bring to you a an interesting modern dancestyle.. But oh

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BUTOH

Genere: Modern Dance, Theatrics

Dance Origins:

Base is in Contemporary
Originated in Japan, 1959, WW II
It combines dance, theater, improvisation and influences of Japanese traditional performing arts with German Expressionist dance (Neue Tanz) and performance art to create a unique performing art form that is both controversial and universal in its expression.
Butoh dance is an art that began in Japan as a revolutionary underground dance movement, and although it is known through out Europe and America, it is still relatively unknown in Japan and in many other countries. The tradition, which was the reactionary catalyst for the birth of butoh, is also the conservative inertia, which may be preventing it from gaining acceptance in Japanese society.

Characteristics:

The body is visually represented in Butoh in many ways, involving body shape and makeup, facial expressions and movements.
In butoh, the image never stands still. It always contains a movement, a contradiction. (weakness and the needs of the human life).
One should not separate body and the spirit from each other when talking about butoh.
One can also view butoh as the abstract expressionist counterpart to the history of dance. Like the abstract expressionist painters, the butoh dancers aspire to the purest, the most direct expression of their emotions.

Dance form:

Fundamental concerns of the butoh dancer:

Finding new ways to live and new bodies to live in, Learning to understand the value of each life and each death, The interconnection of all things, Coming to terms with the past

The manifestation of all things through the dancer's body

Butoh is a performance, but its preoccupation is with adaptation; each dance grows up out of the fault lines in human cultures that bring our societies again and again into conflict, devastation, and alienation from the natural world. Butoh challenges and attempts to transform preconceptions of the mind, of the body, of movement; to bring greater attention and sensitivity to how we perceive and interact with the world. How do we behave once we know we are connected to everything?

Read up, there is so much more to this dance.. if you have any interest in Gothic architecture or painting era..you would love to read up on this.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7x3UmjIR48[/YOUTUBE]

Edited by enigmatic_zephy - 12 years ago