Tag Archives: Shirow Kaze-Dama

Sounds of Antiquity, Elegance Enduring

14/02/2015 -  - Adam Wojcinski, Butoh, Dr Richard Chenhall
How important is lineage? Lineage is significant in Japanese culture: clear and unbroken lines of tradition establish authority, nurture creativity, permit experimentation and inform contemporary thinking and practice. Lineage and resonance from the past was characteristic of the participants in …
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Dance of Darkness : Shirow Kaze-Dama

30/06/2014 -  - Butoh, Culture, Daniel Truscott
NITE Art July 23 from 8pm Butoh dance evolved in the intellectual and artistic ferment of post-war Japan as a ‘direct assault on the refinement (miyabi) and understatement (shibui) so valued in Japanese aesthetics’ (Sanders, Vicki (Autumn 1988). “Dancing and …
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