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AbstractThe aim of this thesis is to investigate the social and cultural significance ofbutoh dance beyond its original context of postwar Japan. In order to do so,the thesis explores ideas, practices and experiences of butoh dancing amongcontemporary – Japanese as well as non-Japanese – practitioners: primarilythe Oxford-based butoh dance company Café Reason, which constituted themain case study for the research.The ethnographic particularities of butoh, as defined by its practitioners,provided the core of the investigation. That is, a common notion amongteachers and students of this dance form is that butoh has no conclusive formor style. They also say that butoh is defined by its very defying of definitions.Thus, the central question that runs through the thesis is: ‘How does butoh, adance that resists codification and classification, continue to be practised andreinvented?’The central hypothesis of the thesis is that the core of butoh lies in itsperceptual, rather than its formal, constitution and articulation. In order to testthis hypothesis I engaged an unorthodox methodology that, by explicitlymobilizing sensory engagement in the processes of training and performingbutoh, br

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Author

Paola Esposito

Publisher

Oxford Brookes University

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction