Butoh What is a free-to-attend, outdoor performance event supporting artists working in and expanding the butoh dance genre.
Featuring works from Mina Nishimura, Stacy Lynn Smith, evan ray suzuki, and Glenn Potter-Takata.
Williamsbridge Oval Park
Sunday, July 10th at 3pm
Sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts
Curated by Glenn Potter-Takata
Produced by Amanda Hameline & Glenn Potter-Takata
Butoh is an anti-modernist dance genre and somatic practice that emerged in the postwar landscape of 1950s Tokyo. It developed against the backdrop of the Anpo protests, which were a series of some of the largest demonstrations in the history of Japan. The Anpo protests united many on the Japanese left and conservative right in an effort against the United States' ongoing military presence throughout Japan post-WWII. Less of a formal protest, butoh was similarly reacting against the rapid Americanization of Japan after the close of World War II. The early butoh artists sought an aesthetic that was free of Western ideals, using performance to re-invest in more traditional Japanese values, such as the nature-based tenets of Japan's native Shinto religion. Pre-war European art movements like surrealism and German expressionism (perhaps somewhat ironically) also played a large role in shaping the new dance genre that would come to be known as butoh, with similar motifs continuing to appear in butoh artists' performances to this day.––Glenn Potter-Takata
Butoh What is made possible through the Bronx Council on the Arts Bronx Dance Fund, funded through support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation with additional funding from Amazon.
Image link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C9UChKJYj5i3vCt6QquUq8ltdldYa8Oo/view?usp=sharing
Featuring works from Mina Nishimura, Stacy Lynn Smith, evan ray suzuki, and Glenn Potter-Takata.
Williamsbridge Oval Park
Sunday, July 10th at 3pm
Sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts
Curated by Glenn Potter-Takata
Produced by Amanda Hameline & Glenn Potter-Takata
Butoh is an anti-modernist dance genre and somatic practice that emerged in the postwar landscape of 1950s Tokyo. It developed against the backdrop of the Anpo protests, which were a series of some of the largest demonstrations in the history of Japan. The Anpo protests united many on the Japanese left and conservative right in an effort against the United States' ongoing military presence throughout Japan post-WWII. Less of a formal protest, butoh was similarly reacting against the rapid Americanization of Japan after the close of World War II. The early butoh artists sought an aesthetic that was free of Western ideals, using performance to re-invest in more traditional Japanese values, such as the nature-based tenets of Japan's native Shinto religion. Pre-war European art movements like surrealism and German expressionism (perhaps somewhat ironically) also played a large role in shaping the new dance genre that would come to be known as butoh, with similar motifs continuing to appear in butoh artists' performances to this day.––Glenn Potter-Takata
Butoh What is made possible through the Bronx Council on the Arts Bronx Dance Fund, funded through support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation with additional funding from Amazon.
Image link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C9UChKJYj5i3vCt6QquUq8ltdldYa8Oo/view?usp=sharing
Schedule
Venue
Williamsbridge Oval Park
3225 Reservoir Oval E
Bronx, NY 10467
