#butoh dance

[shodwithbootsofether]

Ushio Amagatsu performance (1989/90)

[awildhappiness]

Sometimes I say weird shit, the kind it makes you feel afraid.

Sometimes I dream I'm a ghost and I try to look at my dead brain by rolling my eyes inside my skull, like a butoh dancer. And I float around like that for a while. Maybe someone sees me but I don't notice.

I dream about saying weird shit (the kind it makes you feel afraid) to someone in my dream. And I like to see how they change.

I often wish I could CONFESS something that someone would find scary, like telling them I'm going to starve myself to death one day. If I ever commit suicide I think that's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to crawl on my belly, one arm and then the other. In circles, inside my room and die in it as I curse the whole department building, or the whole area, the whole world. As far as I can curse.

I said I was a "chaser", which is something really weird to say because it's embarrassing and it's like you're confessing you're something you shouldn't be, something you shouldn't do.

Not a predator but a dirty and pathetic yearner, and yet, with some obscure power. Your desire leaves your brain and goes haunting those people you "chase".

It approaches you and you look at it and you realize it looks like this:

[basse-fosse]

decomposition

[crystal-linity]

collaboration with visual artist Haruo Higuma

- Performance on Feb 4th, 2025 -

photo : Bunta Tanaka

映像作家ヒグマ春夫さんとのコラボレーションタイムで、舞わせていただきました。

すばらしい機会をありがとうございました！

[crueldance]

[myteaplace]

Sankai Juku at Stonehenge by Setsuo Kato

[thecommaconstellation]

Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers - Official Film Trailer - Dir. Amélie Ravalec

[xxxnbtni]

Butoh dance or ankoku butō “The dance of utter darkness” Butoh first appeared in post-World War II Japan in 1959 , under the collaboration of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno "in the protective shadow of the 1950s and 1960s avant-garde" Butoh dance deals with the dark side of human beings, it's an expression of the inexpressible. Dancers take thoughts and feelings that are buried deep inside, what people don’t want to face. Founder Tatsumi Hijikata viewed the formalisation of butoh with "distress". Common features of the art form include playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and it is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion is reminiscent of the awkward, jerking movements of a zombie. However, with time butoh groups are increasingly being formed around the world, with their various aesthetic ideals and intentions.