Conference on Butoh at UCLA May 20-22, 2011

[Bruce Baird]

Colleagues,

This is a little bit off topic, but as there have been questions on this list from time to time about butoh and film, I am forwarding this on behalf of William Marotti at UCLA (and of course its a bit of a shameless plug).  I hope to see you there.



Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism:

Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice

May 20-22, 2011

University of California, Los Angeles

 
Despite Butoh's 50 year history, much of the current scholarly work in Japan and in North America still focuses narrowly on Butoh's co-founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo, or worse, assimilates Butoh to a variety of culturalist tropes and performance stereotypes. Little attention has been paid to the proliferation of Butoh training and performance in Japan since the 1970s and across the world since the 1980s, or to the experimentalism and openness that remain part of the genre's continuing legacy. Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice seeks to remedy this gap in scholarship by bringing together leading Butoh practitioners and scholars from Japan and North America for a groundbreaking meeting that considers issues of the form's historiography alongside contemporary questions of practice and aesthetics. The three-day symposium will convene an international scholarly and artistic community from disparate individuals who until now have had little opportunity to coalesce and will commence a dialog between academics and practitioners.

 
The three-day symposium will feature:

•                Performances

•                Movement workshops

•                Panel discussions with scholars and practitioners from Japan and the United States

 
Confirmed participants include:

•                Maro Akaji - Tokyo, Japan - founder of Dairakudakan

•                Katsura Kan - Kyoto, Japan - Director / Choreographer

•                Joan Laage - Seattle, WA - Dancer / Choreographer

•                William Marotti - UCLA, Associate Professor, Dept. of History

•                Bruce Baird - U Mass Amherst, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

•                Inata Naomi - Tokyo, Japan - Dance Scholar and Critic

•                Susan B. Klein - UC Irvine, Professor, East Asian Lang and Lit

More participants to be confirmed

 
Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice is partially funded at UCLA by the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and the Asia Institute, co-sponsored by the Japanese Arts and Globalizations multi-campus research group (JAG), and is hosted in part by the Departments of History and World Arts and Cultures.

 
For more information please contact: uclabutoh at gmail.com


Bruce Baird
Assistant Professor
Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History

717 Herter Hall
161 Presidents Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9312
Phone: 413-577-4992
Fax: 413-545-4975
baird at asianlan.umass.edu


Bruce Baird
Assistant Professor
Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History

717 Herter Hall
161 Presidents Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9312
Phone: 413-577-4992
Fax: 413-545-4975
baird at asianlan.umass.edu


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