1st Edition

Butoh America Butoh Dance in the United States and Mexico from 1970 to the early 2000s

By Tanya Calamoneri Copyright 2022
192 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Butoh America unearths the people and networks that popularized Butoh dance in the Americas through a focused look at key artists, producers, and festivals in the United States and Mexico. This is the first book to gather these histories into one narrative and look at the development of American Butoh. From its inception in San Francisco in 1976, American Butoh aligned with avant-garde... Read more

List of Figures

A Note About Spanish and Japanese Names and Words

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Stranger in a Strange Land: 1970s Avant-Garde as Precursor to Butoh

Chapter 3: American Anchor Artists and Festivals

Chapter 4: Gen X Butoh

Chapter 5: The Future of Butoh is …

Index

Biography

Tanya Calamoneri is a dancer, choreographer, and Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Tech University. Her primary area of research is Butoh dance. She also writes about issues concerning the migration of forms across cultural boundaries in a globalized world. Her writing has been published in Routledge's Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal, Dance Chronicle, Journal of Dance Education, and Movement Research Journal, as well as a chapter on Butoh pedagogy in the Routledge Butoh Companion and a chapter in Routledge's Intercultural Actor and Performer Training.