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Hybrid Butoh Vienna Art Festival with a World Star of Butoh
The first hybrid "Butoh Vienna Art Festival" from December 1 to 11 can boast a world star of Butoh. The festival, organized by Austrian-based Brazilian and top-class Butoh performer Will Lopes, from December 1 to 11, will bring Atsushi Takenouchi to Vienna. The 60-year-old Japanese is one of the most distinguished artists of this special form of dance theater, which does without a fixed form.
One of the participants of the festival is Taiwanese artist Hu Chia, producer of the Taiwan Butoh Festival. / Picture: © Te-Fan Wang
Butoh is a type of dance theater developed in Japan that does not require a fixed form. It emerged in the late 1960s as a "dance of revolt" against the Americanization of Japanese culture, which at the same time rebelled against the rigid codification of classical Japanese dance. The alienated, alienated bodies of the performers are made up of white and are often almost naked. A Butoh…
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