About Butoh 5. Aesthetics of Butoh

This is the fifth part of a seven part series on butoh, the mysterious performance style that began in Japan in the late 1950s. In future episodes I’ll be discussing the history of butoh, the aesthetics of butoh and butoh’s relationship with Western Art.

I’ll update this description with links to the other episodes as they are posted. I’ll also update the bibliography below as I fill it in with further details.

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Episode 1 Intro to Butoh:    • About Butoh 1.  Intro to Butoh  
Episode 2 Tatsumi Hijikata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xvek...
Episode 3 Kazuo Ohno:    • About Butoh 3: Kazuo Ohno  
Episode 4 Other Butoh Artists:    • About Butoh 4: Other Butoh Artists  
Episode 6 Butoh and the West:    • About Butoh 6. Butoh And The West  


Yukio Waguri’s Butoh-fu site: https://butoh-kaden.com/en/

Bibliography

Books

Kazuo Ohno’s World: From Within and Without
Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno
2004 Wesleyan University Press

Hidden Body: The World of Kazuo Ohno
Supervised by Yoshito Ohno, Edited by Creo
2006 Creo Corporation

Butoh: Dance of the Dark Soul
Photographs by Ethan Hoffman, Commentaries by Mark Holburn, Tatsumi Hijikata, Yukio Mishima
1987 Aperture Foundation

Tatsumi Hijikata: Three Decades of Butoh Experiment
1993 Hijikata Memorial Archive, Asbestos-kan

Butoh: Shades of Darkness
Jean Viala
1988 Shufunotomo Co. Ltd

Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata in the 1960s
2005 Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio

Costume En Face: A Primer of Darkness for Young Boys and Girls
Tatsumi Hijikata and Moe Yamamoto
2015 Ugly Duckling Press

Periodicals

The Drama Review
Vol 44 No. 1 Spring, 2000
Tatsumi Hijikata: The Words of Butoh