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UNDERSTANDING BUTOH "BECOMING OTHER" (SERIES) THE ATOMIC BOMBS

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  UNDERSTANDING BUTOH "BECOMING OTHER" (SERIES) THE ATOMIC BOMBS WRITTEN BY ARA FIG MMXXVI  Kazuo Ohno once said of his Work: "The best thing someone can say to me is that while watching my performance they began to cry.  It is not important to understand what I am doing; perhaps it is better if they don't understand, but just respond to the dance." Butoh (舞踏, Butō) is an avant-garde Japanese  Dance-theatre form that emerged in 1959 As a Radical Anti-establishment Response To the Trauma of World War II & The Rapid Westernization of Japan Originally called Ankoku Butoh (暗黒舞踏) Which Translates to the "Dance of Darkness" It strips away the structured rules of traditional Japanese performing arts (like Noh and Kabuki) & the athletic constraints of Western ballet Instead it seeks to explore the subconscious human vulnerability & the primal raw essentials of the body.  THE ATOMIC BOMBS On August 6 & 9 1945 the United States dropped two atomic...
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The Poetics of Subterranean "Becoming Other" An Analysis Within The Butoh Framework of The Unearthing

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The Poetics of Subterranean  "Becoming Other" An Analysis Within The  Butoh Framework Of The Unearthing: FROM: UNDERSTANDING BUTOH THE UNEARTHING: A BUTOH RITUAL OF "BECOMING OTHER" WRITTEN BY ARA FIG MMXXVI  Introduction and Ontological Framing The text Understanding Butoh: The Unearning: A Butoh Ritual of Becoming Other by Ara Fig operates as an intricate somatic investigation into the dissolution of human identity and the reconstitution of self through material assimilation. Situated within the broader architecture of J. Beck’s The Young Sopranos universe and its recursive explorations of trauma, silence, and metamorphosis, this performance text rejects narrative exposition in favor of visceral, tectonic ontology. The choreography is structured across four primary movements— The Weight of Earth (Digging) , The Rite of Unveiling (Washing) , The Emergence (The Growth) , and The Eternal Witness (The Life-Size Statue) . Each phase charts a progressive descent in...
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