Butoh Rhizome: Choreography of a moving writing self

Petra Kuppers

doi:10.1386/chor.1.79_1

ISSN: 2040-5669
E-ISSN: 2040-5677

Butoh Rhizome: Choreography of a moving writing self
By Petra Kuppers¹
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Affiliations: ¹ University of Michigan.
Source: Choreographic Practices, Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 2011, p. 79 - 96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/chor.1.79_1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Jan 2011

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This article enacts the multiplicity of sensations and ways of thinking through movement in a particular butoh dance. Narratives of independent selves become disrupted by meditations on disability and language, translation and representation, and the unfolding of somatic consciousness.

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Keyword(s): Agamben; butoh; choreography; dance and writing; disability; embodiment; Hijikata; Olimpias

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