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Differing Bodyminds: Cripping Choreography
  • ISSN: 2040-5669
  • E-ISSN: 2040-5677

Abstract

Butoh dance – an avant-garde dance ‘form’ which emerged in Japan in the early 1960s – has been discussed by various scholars in terms of the deconstruction or the unlearning of the social body. In this article, written from my perspective as an autistic butoh dancer, I offer a reflection on the relationship between the autistic body and the butoh body – or rather, I offer a reflection on the relationship between (my) autistic body and (my) butoh body, though I argue that butoh and autism precisely call into question the (neurotypical) assumptions embedded in this sentence. That is, I believe that butoh and autism call into question both the existence of ‘the body’ as a pre-existing form and the notion that it would be the property of an ‘I’, of a subject, of a unified self.

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Keyword(s): bodying; corporeity; Deligny; disability; Hijikata; neurodivergence; neurodiversity
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