[KineJapan] Butoh Scores: Symposium, Film Screenings and Butô Workshops at Yale Oct. 28 to Nov. 2

[Bruce Baird]

Dear Colleagues,

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.

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Join us for a unique opportunity to journey back nearly half a century into the world of Tatsumi Hijikata’s butoh choreography.

Over the course of four days of intensive workshops, 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. Workshops will be limited to 20 participants and free of charge. Applications will be accepted until September 20.

The workshops will be followed by a two-day symposium 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. The symposium events are open to all and free of charge.


I hope to see you there,


Bruce


Bruce Baird
Professor
Japanese Program
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History

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