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Bodily Imagination in Butoh Dance: Towards an Anthropology with Art for Creativity and Healing book cover

1st Edition

Bodily Imagination in Butoh Dance Towards an Anthropology with Art for Creativity and Healing

By Paola Esposito Copyright 2027
224 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers an anthropological study of butoh dance as an artistic somatic practice which can be oriented toward self-knowledge and transformation, for creativity and healing. Based on immersive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Japan and the UK, it reflects on the use of butoh as a tool for creative expression but also to engage with the daily question of what it is be alive. The book... Read more

1. Introduction: Towards an anthropology with butoh dance  2. Knowing the body from the inside: Kinaesthetic imagination and bodily thinking in butoh dance  3. Socio-sensory aspects of Café Reason butoh practice: modulating the dancing body through intermodal kinaesthesia  4. A kinaesthetic eye, body fragmentation, and sensory montages in a butoh dance class  5. Mimesis and metamorphosis in butoh dance: reshaping the body with words and images  6. Un-civilising the body: synchronizing and enmeshing through butoh  7. Dancing illusions: A Butoh-with-Anthropology Assemblage (Homage to Salvador Dalí)  8. Reimagining the body-with-chronic pain through an anthropology with butoh dance: from bodily hylomorphism to somatic metamorphogenesis  9. From forms to dreams: the imaginative expanse of self-perception through butoh dance

Biography

Paola Esposito is a Departmental Lecturer in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.

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