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Butoh Ecologies: Dance Practice as Training for a New Relationship with the Environment
By
Rosemary Candelario

In 1968 Tatsumi Hijikata, the instigator of the Japanese avant-garde movement form known as butoh, engaged in a collaboration with photographer Eikoh Hosoe. This project, titled Kamaitachi, consisted of a striking set of images created as what Hosoe called a “subjective documentary” of their youth...

Gaga as gesamtkunstwerk & Fever Ray's melting face: a short attention span essay on operatic gestures in contemporary pop music
By
Alec Hanley Bemis
Let's lead this post with a bit of theater: Karin Dreijer Andersson aka Fever Ray (or maybe it's a stand-in?) accepting an award for best dance artist at that country's equivalent of the Grammy Awards. (They're called the Grammis. American cultural imperialism is no joke.):
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