<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">
<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I am passing along information about a fantastic symposium and set of workshops organized by Rosa van Hensbergen at Yale dedicated to understanding Hijikata Tatsumi better. As part of the symposium, there will be screenings of four archival films of Hijikata’s
dances.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<div style="display: block;">
<div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-10/butoh-scores-workshops-performances-lectures-screenings">
<a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-10/butoh-scores-workshops-performances-lectures-screenings" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300">
<table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:156px;" width="300" height="156" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="Saga Kobayashi by.JPG.jpeg" src="cid:04760076-605F-4F33-B75A-EEC925830C56"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td vertical-align="center">
<table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem">
<div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading">
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-10/butoh-scores-workshops-performances-lectures-screenings" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Butoh Scores</font></a></div>
<div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading">
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-10/butoh-scores-workshops-performances-lectures-screenings" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">macmillan.yale.edu</font></a></div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</a></div>
</div>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Join us for a unique opportunity to journey back nearly half a century into the world of Tatsumi Hijikata’s butoh choreography.</div>
<div>
<p>Over the course of four days of <strong>intensive workshops</strong>, we will rediscover choreographic phrases from works of the late 1970s with dancers who originally performed in them, Saga Kobayashi and Moe Yamamoto. Through a combination of rare video
recordings, dancers’ notebooks from the time, and the embodied memories of Kobayashi and Yamamoto, we will go behind the scenes of Hijikata’s choreographic creation. <strong>Workshops will be limited to 20 participants and free of charge.</strong> <strong>Applications
will be accepted until September 20.</strong></p>
<p>The workshops will be followed by a two-day <strong>symposium</strong> of screenings and performance lectures, open to all, which will offer a rare opportunity to discover the workings of Hijikata’s choreographic method through the guidance of artists who
performed in his works. We will be joined by Saga Kobayashi, Moe Yamamoto and Kei Shirasaka of Kanazawa Butoh Kan, alongside longtime archivist and producer of Hijikata’s works, Takashi Morishita, and current archivist Kae Ishimoto. Our aim across these two
days will be to reveal the relationship between video recordings of Hijikata’s dance from the late 1970s and the language he used to choreograph them, drawing on the private notational archives of Kobayashi and Yamamoto along with archival documents from the
Hijikata Archive at Keio University. Several of the archival films we will be showing will be screened outside of Japan for the first time. <strong>The symposium events are open to all and free of charge. </strong></p>
<p><strong><br>
</strong></p>
<p>I hope to see you there,</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Bruce</p>
<p><br>
</p>
</div>
<div>
<div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">
<div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">
Bruce Baird<br>
Professor<br>
Japanese Program<br>
University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>
Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History<br>
<br>
439 Herter Hall<br>
161 Presidents Drive<br>
University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>
Amherst, MA 01003-9312<br>
Phone: 413-577-2117<br>
Fax: 413-545-3178<br>
<a href="mailto:baird@umass.edu">baird@umass.edu</a><br>
<br>
Recently Released: A History of Butô (Oxford UP)<br>
<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-history-of-but-9780197630280">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-history-of-but-9780197630280</a></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>