<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is slightly afield of this list, but we have had over the course of the years a few threads about the cross-fertilization between butoh and cinema, so for your information, I am including this book launch information here.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rosemary Candelario (Texas Woman's University) and I are proud to announce the publication of <i class="">The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance</i>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Butoh-Performance/Baird-Candelario/p/book/9781138691094" class="">https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Butoh-Performance/Baird-Candelario/p/book/9781138691094</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: rgb(29, 33, 41); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Intro + 56 chapters = 55 authors, 8 translators, 100 photos, 6 continents, 14 countries, 558 pages!</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope you will all have your respective libraries order a copy. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">One of the chapters, by Aaron Kerner, treats the nexus between cinema and butoh specifically.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">And if I may be so bold, for those who feature a chapter about butoh in their Japanese theater surveys, the first half of our intro is your new go-to chapter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruce</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bruce Baird<br class="">Associate Professor<br class="">East Asian Languages and Cultures<br class="">University of Massachusetts Amherst<br class="">Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History<br class=""><br class="">439 Herter Hall<br class="">161 Presidents Drive<br class="">University of Massachusetts Amherst<br class="">Amherst, MA 01003-9312<br class="">Phone: 413-577-2117<br class="">Fax: 413-545-3178<br class=""><a href="mailto:baird@umass.edu" class="">baird@umass.edu</a><br class=""><br class="">Recently released: The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance<br class=""><br class="">https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Butoh-Performance/Baird-Candelario/p/book/9781138691094<br class=""><br class="">Now out in paperback and e-book: Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh<br class=""><br class="">http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230120402</div>
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