Re: Fwd: SDHS proposal?

[Megan Nicely]

Yes! I am happy to help organize to get this in. I think Katherine was going to compile some initial things, but what about proposing:
A panel of papers that address the conference theme
a roundtable discussion on issues in butoh scholarship
Others, thoughts?
Megan

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From: Megan V Nicely
Sent: Nov 22, 2011 4:19 PM
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Subject: Fwd: SDHS proposal?

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From: Rosemary <eves....@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: SDHS proposal?
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Just checking in about SDHS. It looks like the deadline is Dec 15. What do we need to do to get our (maybe 2?) panel proposals together?

-R.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Bruce Baird <ba...@asianlan.umass.edu> wrote:

PS. for me, the topic of dance and the city lends itself to a lot of interesting topics related to butoh (at least).

For one, you have the relationship between the city and Tohoku, and how Tohoku functions for a dance form that for a long time resolutely occupied the city.  Its clear that Hijikata early on feels a kind of fraught relationship with Tokyo, but its also clear later that his relationship to Tohoku is pretty fraught as well.  (So Michael's comments on Kamaitachi could prove interesting in this light.)

I have argued for a connection between butoh facial expressions and cubism, and its clear to me that cubism is also related to urban spaces, so there are other connections to be explored (beyond just funding streams and sufficiently large audiences to support dancers).

Also, I gave a talk at MIT's Cool Japan Project about butoh and hip hop, so I'd be interested in hearing more about what Michael and Rennie are thinking about that topic.

Zack might have some interesting ideas to add from the perspective of Min, (and the example of Suzuki finding an alternate source of funding in Toga I think would be related to the kinds of perspectives that Zack might bring).   Mikami is out in the boonies now as well.  One thing that I find interesting about Min and Mikami is that there is a certain sense of escaping the city when people make the trip up to Tokason, but at the same time, Min and his dancers often come into Tokyo to present at Plan B as well. 

bruce

On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Tanya Calamoneri wrote:

I vote for SDHS!  Better topic, more time to get it together, and I love Philly :)

Thanks for getting it started!  Will submit some thoughts soon...

Tanya

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Michael Sakamoto <michael...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi, Katherine. I'd be happy to submit something, especially for SDHS. I'm developing a new piece with Rennie Harris, who's based in Philly, that considers resonances between butoh, hip-hop, and urbanism/urban ecology.

I also was supposed to be on the main panel last year for the AAP/ATHE pre-conference, but I had to cancel because I got a Japan travel grant for that same month, so I'd like to resubmit my Kamaitachi paper if possible.

OK, thanks for nudging us!

Michael

 

Michael Sakamoto
Performance and media artist
Faculty, MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College
email: michael...@yahoo.com
site: www.michaelsakamoto.com
blog: anemptyroom1.blogspot.com

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From: Katherine Mezur <kme...@sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 10:06 AM
Subject: ATHE or SDHS proposal?

Dear Butoh group: I realize we are in a difficult time of limited finances, myself included, but I wanted to see if anyone out there might be intererested in creating a panel for ATHE and/or SDHS. The panel might be butoh focused or some of you might want to use your butoh research in another context, this might also be interesting. Because these conferences have themes please take a look at their websites. 

ATHE deadline is November 1.

With ATHE we can join with the Assoc. Asian Perf FG and Performance Studies FG or if you have other suggestions? I think it would be very interesting to think about the 1960s and Demonstrations, Rebellion etc. or extend the politics of butoh in other times and places. Let me know your ideas. I just saw a film by Linda Hoagland, "Anpo: ArtXWar" at University of San Francisco (where Megan teaches) in their Asia Pacific Center, that was really amazing in terms of how artists in the early postwar and postoccupation worked against the American use of Japan as a military base. 

SDHS is in Philadelphia but the proposal is not due until Dec. 1 Ithink, and it has a cool theme (june 15-17?).  It would be very cool to link our different butoh strategies to the metropolis and our different cityscapes. 

Conference 2012: Dance and the Social City Let me know what you think and send ideas. We might send a similar prop to both to save time. I may send this out to other listservs so I apologize for multipostings.  Take care in this exploding world, Katherine

 

Prof. Dr. Katherine Mezur
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"Interweaving Performance Cultures"
Freie University Berlin
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[Katherine Mezur]

 Hi thanks for the reminder will compile the comments. But really the ideas were very concrete about place, local, in a sense the ecology of place and butoh, that could go urban, or not. I am not so interested in a panel on the state of butoh publications. I would rather just commit (like Bruce) and get stuff out there. We may have enough for either a roundtable or two connected sessions. back tomorrow...  xx k

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From: Megan Nicely <mnd...@earthlink.net>
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Sent: Tue, November 22, 2011 4:22:12 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: SDHS proposal?

[Zack Fuller]

I just checked the SDHS website and noticed that the deadline for proposals is December 1, not December 15. Just wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of this.

Best,

Zack

[Rosemary]

I'm going to email to double-check, because I just found a page on their site that says Dec 21! http://sdhs.org/conference2012-announcement

-R.

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[Zack Fuller]

Wow that is crazy. Thanks for checking.-Z

[Rosemary]

I'll let everyone know as soon as I hear. But it's a good prompt to get working on your abstracts. 

Here's the info from the SDHS website http://sdhs.org/conferences/proposal-instructions:

They ask for: proposals of no more than 250 words that describes your focus and approach, with a bibliography of sources no longer than one page. On the submission form clearly indicate your audio/visual and equipment needs.

Additionally, for panels:

Three or four applicants may propose a panel of papers on a related topic... If you are interested in proposing a panel, please submit individual paper proposals as outlined above, making sure in addition that each proposal also includes a 250-word summary of the larger panel topic, and that the title of the proposed panel and the panelists’ names are included in the appropriate fields of the submission form.

For Roundtables: One applicant may propose a roundtable discussion on a particular topic. If you are interested in this option, please submit a proposal of no more than 250 words that outlines the topic and identifies participants. Each participant must fill out a submission form, and these forms should be sent together with the roundtable proposal. All proposed participants must fill out a submission form.

FYI, it's a pretty confusing application process. It looks like we'd each need to put in our own submission, and that in the file we upload we include BOTH our own abstract AND the panel proposal. Additionally, there is a space where we have to list all other panelists.

Below I compiled everyone's ideas that I could find in old emails:

Overall concepts:

Maybe we'd have one panel about sites in Japan, and one about diasporic sites? 

two panels or some other format for more in-sites/out-sites?

"hometown landscapes"

 

Michael: I'm developing a new piece with Rennie Harris, who's based in Philly, that considers resonances between butoh, hip-hop, and urbanism/urban ecology.

 

Zack: "unlicensed" site specific dance in urban settings (that is dance performances  done without any sort of official permission where audiences include people who had not planned to watch a dance, or might not even know that they are watching a dance

 

Rosemary: Eiko & Koma’s New York site dances as a way to explore their changing relationship with their adopted city and their attempts to create space for themselves as Japanese immigrants and Asian Americans. 

 

Bruce: relationship between the city and Tohoku, and how Tohoku functions for a dance form that for a long time resolutely occupied the city

 

Tanya: contemporary buto students (and teachers for that matter) as a nomadic community that circulates between several urban hubs, and a few notable nature-based utopian communities

 

Megan: body mappings and the urban environment this spring (a new class I am teaching) and so would like to write on this and the notion of the body as a social space via the work on Akira Kasai that is in my dissertation.

 

Katherine: Stranger Community and Berliner Butoh

So...we need to figure out who goes on what panel and come up with titles and panel proposals. I think it would be good if we have a common name among the two, maybe with a different subtitle or Pt I Pt II so that people could see that they are connected.

Hope this is helpful and that I haven't stepped on any toes (Katherine and Megan).

-R.

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[Megan Nicely]

thanks, this is very helpful in motivating...
let me know on the date though when you hear, dec. 1 oy!