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2 unusual facts about butoh


Japrocksampler

The unusual relationship between Japanese experimental theatre and rock music is carefully explained in the 14-page essay 'J.A. Caesar and the Radical Theatre Music of Japan'.

Shibusashirazu Orchestra

The group was formed in 1989 by bassist Daisuke Fuwa and since then many of Japan's best free jazz musicians, Butoh dancers and other performance artists have passed through the orchestra.


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Ankoku butoh

:ankoku butoh: is the fifth studio album by Gothic rock band Faith and the Muse.

Clare Ann Matz

In New York City she worked with the Japanese Butoh dance/theatre group Poppo before moving to Europe, where she collaborated with European modern dance/theatre groups: Teatro della Valdoca (1997–1998) with Ruvido Umano and Canti dall'esilio d'occidente and the theatrical group Krypton with Skyline (1987) with whom she was performance artist at the Festival Kassel Documenta 8.

Maureen Fleming

She was first exposed to butoh in 1984 when she met butoh dancer Min Tanaka in New York City, joining his company, Maijuku, for a time.

Miho Iwata

In 1991 she was first introduced to butoh dance in Poland through the work of Daisuke Yoshimoto, Kazuo Ohno and Min Tanaka.

Paul Chavez

Chavez has worked extensively in scoring the work of several choreographer/dancers who specialize in the Butoh style of dance, including Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, Melinda Ring, Morleigh Steinberg, and Sarah Elgart.

Tatsumi Hijikata

Many of his early works were inspired by figures of European literature such as the Marquis de Sade and the Comte de Lautréamont, as well as by the French Surrealist movement, which had exerted an immense influence on Japanese art and literature, and had led to the creation of an autonomous and influential Japanese variant of Surrealism, whose most prominent figure was the poet Shuzo Takiguchi, who perceived Ankoku Butoh as a distinctively 'Surrealist' dance-art form.


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