Performing Everyday Things: Ecosomatic Threads of Butoh, Phenomenology, and Zen
Performance Matters April 9, 2024 Sondra Fraleigh 1 citation
This essay engages descriptive, experiential methods of phenomenology, prompts from butoh, and insights of Zen Buddhism. Butoh is the dance and theatre form that arose from the ashes of Japan in the shadow of ecological and social crisis after the Second Word War. It is interpreted widely in current forms that extend well beyond the borders of Japan. The everyday is articulated in the...