Luck of the draw...
as it was put by my latest okc acquaintance.
The world of Butoh and the discovery the body,emotion and soul through explorative and raw movement.
Disturbing... discomforting... unsettling...
the discomfort comes from the feeling of having witnessed someone on the brink between animal/human..
[it is] shamanic voyeurism...
the body, the flesh, the human on display
it is at once quite vulnerable, intimate, yet objectified
objectified because it is on display
abject because of our discomfort
I am utterly taken.
There isn't much to say at this point...I know nothing.
I am utterly taken.
As our conversation danced, she provided me with more and more to follow.
there's an offshoot called Body Weather Laboratory...created by a Butoh dancer who went into the farm to learn how to dance closer to the land/elements...his name is Min Tanaka..very worth you knowing, I think."
Min Tanaka:
"'...the body that measures the landscape, the body in intercourse with weather, the body kissing mass of peat, the body in love-death relation to the day. For me the dance has been a symbol of despair and courage.' This is the basis for his Body Weather Farm, a unique approach to communal living, working and creating."
Karl Frost: "contact-based but taken to .. another level"
"He is devoted to.. reclaiming the joy of being in the body...a necessary part of the revolution against materialism."
I feel some sort of deep connection to all of this.
This is Taketeru Kudo
There is a Butoh workshop in San Francisco every Monday.
In addition, I've been invited to walk blind folded and barefoot on a beach somewhere in Marin.
How intriguing...I am drawn into the depths of the unknown.
"this thing is a curious place (okc)...who it churns out is somewhat of a rolling of dice..."
I totally agree.
Links:
Body Weather Laboratory
Karl Frost- Body Research
Wiki
Bay Area Butoh_FaceBook
Min Tanaka
Critical Analysis of Butoh
A Practice-Based Exploration of Butoh in Contemporary Performance and Performer Training
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