Z ciemności do światła – taniec butoh przekraczający granice kultur
From darkness to light – butoh dance exceeding the boundaries of cultures

Author(s): Ewa Tomaszewska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: butoh; Japanese art; west art and east art; performative art; art therapy
Summary/Abstract: Butoh dance arose in Japan as an effect of deep crisis of values that followed World War II. Unexpectedly, in the end of 70s, butoh has gained popularity in a completely culturally different Western world (including Poland). Butoh dance, as a way of integrating body and mind, proved to be fresh look at the confusion of modern man in consumer societies - increasingly dehumanized reality. The text is an attempt to look at the social and therapeutic dimension of butoh understood as a form of performing arts – space where completely different cultures encounter each other.

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