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+ Follow BUTOH Tag
BUTOH
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                (
                    [ArticleID] => 695224
                    [Title] => 'I've painted myself  white & I am Death' and other lines from the 2011 Singapore Arts Festival
                    [Summary] => 

He just stands there, minutes trawling by. A white unmoving thing, er, figure as Bach’s Toccata & Fugue ruptures in the background. “Dracula!” the guy behind me whispers.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133531 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804862 [AuthorName] => Igan D’Bayan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/6478/lif1thumbu.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 316604 [Title] => Moving sculpture [Summary] => The Japanese butoh artist walks on stage casually as any dancer would during a rehearsal. But this man commands reverence. He is clad in a long-sleeved shirt and dark brown pants. He walks deliberately with his head down, in deep thought, as if wondering what to do next. At once, as if an idea has formed in his mind, he embarks on a strange appearance. He evokes the image of a larva desperately wanting out of his cocoon. The austere light traps this strange unborn butterfly against the wall. His hands look hideous, his head pathetic, his right foot sickled. Time drifts. [DatePublished] => 2006-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1291975 [AuthorName] => Edna Vida [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287005 [Title] => Moving sculpture [Summary] => The Japanese butoh artist walks on stage casually as any dancer would during a rehearsal. But this man commands reverence. He is clad in a long-sleeved shirt and dark brown pants. He walks deliberately with his head down, in deep thought, as if wondering what to do next. At once, as if an idea has formed in his mind, he embarks on a strange appearance. He evokes the image of a larva desperately wanting out of his cocoon. The austere light traps this strange unborn butterfly against the wall. [DatePublished] => 2005-07-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1291997 [AuthorName] => Edna Vida-Froilan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 285707 [Title] => The Japanese ‘Butoh’: Insights into the soul / Ayala Museum symposium [Summary] => What is Butoh? The program notes state: "Butoh is a contemporary avant-garde dance form which originated in Japan and which was first performed there in 1959 by Tasumi Hijikata. This was considered the birth of Butoh – a radical answer to western concepts of dance, a defiant reflection of the body about the body.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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