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[Rosemary]

if you have trouble viewing this email please click here. Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism:  Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice May 20-22, 2011 University of California, Los Angeles Despite Butoh’s 50 year history, much of the current scholarly work in Japan and in North America still focuses narrowly on Butoh’s co-founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo, or worse, assimilates Butoh to a variety of culturalist tropes and performance stereotypes. Little attention has been paid to the proliferation of Butoh training and performance in Japan since the 1970s and across the world since the 1980s, or to the experimentalism and openness that remain part of the genre’s continuing legacy. Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice seeks to remedy this gap in scholarship by bringing together leading Butoh practitioners and scholars from Japan and North America for a groundbreaking meeting that considers issues of the form’s historiography alongside contemporary questions of practice and aesthetics. The three-day symposium will convene an international scholarly and artistic community from disparate individuals who until now have had little opportunity to coalesce and will commence a dialog between academics and practitioners. The three-day symposium will feature: Performances Movement workshops Panel discussions with scholars and practitioners from Japan and the United States Confirmed participants include: Maro Akaji - Tokyo, Japan - founder of Dairakudakan Katsura Kan - Kyoto, Japan - Director / Choreographer Joan Laage - Seattle, WA - Dancer / Choreographer William Marotti - UCLA, Associate Professor, Dept. of History Bruce Baird - U Mass Amherst, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Inata Naomi - Tokyo, Japan - Dance Scholar and Critic Susan B. Klein - UC Irvine, Professor, East Asian Lang and Lit More participants to be confirmed Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice is partially funded at UCLA by the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and the Asia Institute, co-sponsored by the Japanese Arts and Globalizations multi-campus research group (JAG), and is hosted in part by the Departments of History and World Arts and Cultures. For more information please contact: ucla...@gmail.com

[Bruce Baird]

do you have this in Text form, rather than as a pdf?  I want to forward the info to a listserv, but can't use an attachment.

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Bruce Baird

Assistant Professor

Asian Languages and Literatures

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History

717 Herter Hall

161 Presidents Drive

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, MA 01003-9312

Phone: 413-577-4992

Fax: 413-545-4975

ba...@asianlan.umass.edu

[Bruce Baird]

sorry didn't mean to send that to everyone, but only Rosemary.

[Rosemary]

Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism:

Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice

May 20-22, 2011

University of California, Los Angeles

 

Despite Butoh's 50 year history, much of the current scholarly work in Japan and in North America still focuses narrowly on Butoh's co-founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo, or worse, assimilates Butoh to a variety of culturalist tropes and performance stereotypes. Little attention has been paid to the proliferation of Butoh training and performance in Japan since the 1970s and across the world since the 1980s, or to the experimentalism and openness that remain part of the genre's continuing legacy. Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice seeks to remedy this gap in scholarship by bringing together leading Butoh practitioners and scholars from Japan and North America for a groundbreaking meeting that considers issues of the form's historiography alongside contemporary questions of practice and aesthetics. The three-day symposium will convene an international scholarly and artistic community from disparate individuals who until now have had little opportunity to coalesce and will commence a dialog between academics and practitioners.

 

The three-day symposium will feature:

•                Performances

•                Movement workshops

•                Panel discussions with scholars and practitioners from Japan and the United States

 

Confirmed participants include:

•                Maro Akaji - Tokyo, Japan - founder of Dairakudakan

•                Katsura Kan - Kyoto, Japan - Director / Choreographer

•                Joan Laage - Seattle, WA - Dancer / Choreographer

•                William Marotti - UCLA, Associate Professor, Dept. of History

•                Bruce Baird - U Mass Amherst, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

•                Inata Naomi - Tokyo, Japan - Dance Scholar and Critic

•                Susan B. Klein - UC Irvine, Professor, East Asian Lang and Lit

More participants to be confirmed

 

Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice is partially funded at UCLA by the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and the Asia Institute, co-sponsored by the Japanese Arts and Globalizations multi-campus research group (JAG), and is hosted in part by the Departments of History and World Arts and Cultures.

 

For more information please contact: ucla...@gmail.com

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