Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice

When
Friday, May 20, 2011
8:30 PM
Location
REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater

An International Butoh Artist Dance Concert:
Akaij Maro, Katsura Kan, Kogut in Performance

Friday, May 20, 2011 8:30pm

REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater
631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Despite Butoh’s 50 year history, much of the current scholarly work in Japan and in North America still focuses narrowly on Butoh’s co-founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo, or worse, assimilates Butoh to a variety of culturalist tropes and performance stereotypes. Little attention has been paid to the proliferation of Butoh training and performance in Japan since the 1970s and across the world since the 1980s, or to the experimentalism and openness that remain part of the genre’s continuing legacy.

Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice seeks to remedy this gap in scholarship by bringing together leading Butoh practitioners and scholars from Japan and North America for a groundbreaking meeting that considers issues of the form’s historiography alongside contemporary questions of practice and aesthetics. The three-day symposium will convene an international scholarly and artistic community from disparate individuals who until now have had little opportunity to coalesce and will commence a dialog between academics and practitioners.

Tickets:
$25 General Admission
$20 Students/Seniors
$15 Cal Arts Students/Faculty

Register Online or call 213-237-2800.

Complete schedule

Concert made possible by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Department of History and World Arts and Cultures, UCLA Asia Institute, UCLA Campus Program Committee, and the Japan Foundation.

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