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The Power of Butoh

2023-04-23 13:04:53

One of the scenes of The Five Rings, while looking at the audience, a white actor with hair lines lined in sophisticated Japanese tradition. His eyes crossed slightly, his teeth were exposed, and his tongue was away from his mouth. He encountered the water in the mouth of the world, mixed white paint and spewed his chin, his eyes did not blink. For those with such cruel singularities it is almost impossible to accept it. This obvious challenge to the audience is part of such an attractive form of drama.

One problem that I never get bored is "How do you find Butoh?" The drama scene that I traveled was not just about fascinating inappropriate people and previously broken people. Of course not all of them, but quite a few dancers I encountered found not only the artistic performance of butoh, but also healing. Butoh's strong emotional demands provide a way to deal with trauma and pain and concentrate and express them. And sometimes there are lots of opportunities to cultivate spirit with the positive energy, like the sense of happiness and joy in the same dance. So, when we really need it, everyone has taken various paths, but the common element is finding emotions: There is a clear disagreement between life and life. (Yes, when we talk about it, it seems that we joined the cult organization, yes, we will be involved.

Today is the first day of Mr. Atsushi Takenouchi's last month, I was in Poland in January and February, I feel a little homesick about the rhythm of Italy and my family. For me, this is not the third time, but the right decision to continue the next stop of my journey. But this afternoon, I am looking forward to the intersection with Ponte della. Butoh is the most artistically challenging and fulfilling part of my journey and is the most wonderful one. After all, I did not think that I was a dancer. I was able to study Waltz 's plays and maintain this skill, but besides that, I usually have two left legs and there is no positive improvement. This self-discovery trip is always considered to exist, but it exceeds the expected range.

Butoh is a collective term for various activities, techniques and motivation of dance, performance and sports inspired by the Anakin Butoh movement. It was usually playful and was done with a white body makeup with a grotesque image, a taboo theme, an extreme or absurd environment, and traditionally with or without spectators, with a slow supercontrol movement. There is no fixed style, it may be purely conceptual and there is absolutely no movement. Its origin is attributed to the Japanese dance legend, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. Butoh first appeared in Japan after the Second World War, especially after a student riot. The role of authority is now being challenged and destroyed. Hijikata seems to be responsive to Japanese contemporary dance scene, which believes that imitating the Western on the one hand and idoling on the other hand. He criticized the current situation of dancing as too shallow.