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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"butoh"”.
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Butoh-Ballet
… intercultural theory through an investigation of butoh methods that shift performance processes of ballet. Theories of Post colonialism and Performance have been interrogated and applied to distill a theme, Butoh-Ballet. A qualitative research approach was undertaken for this study following a …
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Butoh dance in the UK: an ethnographic performance investigation
… the social and cultural significance of butoh dance beyond its original context of postwar Japan.In order to do so, the thesis explores ideas, practices and experiences of butoh dancing among contemporary–Japanese as well as non-Japanese –practitioners: primarily the Oxford-based butoh …
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An Inquiry into the Creative Process of Butoh: With Reference to the Implications of Eastern and Western Significances
… thesis investigates the creative processes of Butoh choreography. A phenomenological perspective is used in this thesis to explore the implications for choreographers of the choreographic options employed in Butoh creative processes. Phenomenology corresponds to the Japanese philosophical …
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The Children's Hair Turned White (Original play)
… by the god of death. The play features use of Butoh dance, which is to be freshly choreographed with each production, a post-nuclear art form.
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Body Opera: In Search of the Operatic in the Performance of the Body
… of non-singing performers. The research uses Butoh as a model for a non-foundational movement practice (termed herein ‘Body Opera’) and embodiment techniques derived from Butoh, to achieve this transfer of kinaesthetic information. The research was undertaken in part through interviews with …
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Costume as an active component of performance
… the characteristics of Japanese Noh theatre and Butoh dance. Bringing together all the key areas, theoretical and practical, of my research, I reflect on my exhibition piece and draw conclusions about the psychological and physical power of costume, surmising that the emotions expressed in the …
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Little world/mundinho: an 'antropofagic' and autobiographic performance (uma performance antropofagica e autobiografica)
… practices of Brazilian Candomblé and Japanese Butoh. It attempts to place the spectator in the position of the performer, encountering 'Australia' through another culture and language. And following Oswald de Andrade’s 'anthropophagy', it proposes and enacts the cannibalising of the …
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Listening to the mind at play: sonified biofeedback as generative art practice and theory
… role of stillness in performance practices like Butoh, methods that may radicalise a biofeedback performance came to light. Extending these to biofeedback composition then made listening a central focus of this research and consequently, listeners’ responses to sonified biofeedback, the …
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Moving with Words, 1950s–1980s: Language, Notation, Choreography
My thesis concerns the use of language to notate movement from the 1950s to 1980s. During this period, traditional forms of pictographic movement notation get replaced in avant-garde communities by experimental language scores. These emerge within the context of a widespread and international turn …
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Animal-Woman journey(s): posthuman embodiment of zoomorphic folk tales
Diverse folktales passed down across the generations in different languages tell of Seal Women, Selkies, Mermaids, Dove Girls, She-Wolves, Swan Women: all zoomorphic or semi-zoomorphic beings able to remove their animal coats or skins and take on human shape. Liminal creatures capable of …
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Way of the Butterfly: A Journey towards Transformation through Self-portraits In-Between
<p>It has not been easy for me to talk about myself or describe my feelings or thoughts. Coming from Japan, a collective society, we typically are not raised to do so. Throughout the MFA program at UCF, I have shared my feelings and thoughts through my work. It is important to discuss and inform …