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by Susan Blakeley Klein
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Availability:In StockContributor:Susan Blakeley KleinSeries:Cornell East AsiaAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-03-31Pages:112
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cornell East Asia SeriesISBN-13:9780939657490ISBN-10:093965749XUPC:9780939657490Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Dance, Asian, TheaterBook Topic:Classical & BalletSize:8.30 x 5.60 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCXTFPM4RS
A brief introduction to the history, philosophy, and techniques of the Japanese avant-garde dance movement, Ankoku Buto. Evoking images of grotesque beauty, revelling in the seamy underside of human behavior, Buto dance groups such as Sankai Juku and Dai Rakuda-kan have performed to wide critical and popular acclaim, making Buto one of the most influential new forces in the dance world today. The monograph traces the development of Buto from its birth in the bleak post-war landscape of 1950s Japan, and then addresses the question of Buto as a post-modern phenomenon, before going on to examine the influence of traditional Japanese performance on Buto techniques. The last chapter analyzes a specific dance (Niwa - The Garden) by Muteki-sha, to show how these techniques are used concretely. Includes translations of four essays on But? by contemporary Japanese dance critics.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cornell East Asia SeriesISBN-13:9780939657490ISBN-10:093965749XUPC:9780939657490Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Dance, Asian, TheaterBook Topic:Classical & BalletSize:8.30 x 5.60 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCXTFPM4RS

Susan Blakeley Klein is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to Japanese theater, she specializes in premodern religion and literature. Her most recent book, Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan (Harvard University Press, 2003) is on the medieval development of secret commentaries transmitted in esoteric poetry initiations. Her current research is on the influence of esoteric commentaries in Noh theater. For her next book project she plans to investigate the political, religious, and visual development of premodern Japanese ghosts.


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