Here and Now: Tulkudream, Tanja, Zgonc and Butoh

Using various approaches, this article attempts to explicate the phenomenon of the performance Tulkudream by Tanja Zgonc, its unique intertwinement of Tibetan Buddhism and the method of butoh; drawing on its specificity, the text offers a review of the contemporary position of butoh and its topicality, while it also investigates whether or not it is possible to use butoh to actualise some theories of dance. In so doing so, the article relies especially on the application of the "autonomous body of dance", the concept with a longstanding tradition in the history of dance theory.